Product Documentation

No closed source product should ever display an error which the docs do not explain how to remediate.

If people or corporations want to be lazy with documenting their product, they should at least open source it.

Random thought: Fixing Java

If Oracle simply changes Java so that null.toString() returns the string "null" instead of throwing a NullPointerException, they will probably solve the majority of mysterious bugs in Java programs.

Of blips and blobs...

Random thought . o O ( databases have blobs of binary data... Why not have blips of binary code? Blobs and blips... Blips and blobs... )

Random thought: False Hope of Extensibility

Common Java anti-pattern is to name some classes as "DefaultFooClass" when there's actually no way to use any other implementation.

I think it should be called the "False Hope of Extensibility" anti-pattern.