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In my experience everyone believes they're part of this 15% of travelers interested in the local culture and not one of those stupid NPC going through the motions so the distinction this article is drawing between good and bad tourism completely defeats the point it was trying to make.

There's a new version of Head First Java that came out this year, I expect it's reasonably up to date wrt modern language features. I haven't read it personally but it's frequently recommended.

At a more intermediate level Effective Java 3rd edition is a must read.

At a glance an iPhone seems like one of the worst general purpose computing device for the global poor so in this case it's maybe not that big of a deal.

The blog author is a contributor to cats-effect, if you want to have a look at complicated and adhoc abstractions, look no further. One person's AbstractSingletonFactory is another person's Kleisli monad transformer.

I'm pretty sure Quarkus tries to stick as close as possible to Java EE APIs with some limitations to accommodate the lack of runtime reflection, being Red Hat's answer to application containerization for which JBoss isn't a good fit, if it looks like Spring it's mostly because it's a popular style in Java.

I have noticeable screen tearing on vertical monitors right now when scrolling and dragging windows on Fedora 36/Gnome 42/Xorg/nouveau. Glad to know this issue doesn't exist so I can stop paying attention to it I guess.

95% of users have no idea what Firefox for Android with ublock origin is

I've been using Texmaker for the past 10 years for the few occasions I need to edit some LaTeX file. My needs are really basic so I'm not sure if I'm missing something compared to other editors.

A daruma.

I've never used glassdoor myself, but don't you need to use your company email while leaving the review to prove you actually work there, so leaving an anonymous review isn't even possible? Why would anybody use glassdoor if that's the case?

> Some banks tried to jump on the Java bandwagon when it was the hyped up thing of the moment and now many are going back to COBOL.

What's wrong with Java that COBOL doesn't suffer from exactly?

On ubuntu you open Software, search thunderbird, and click the install button. Or you open the terminal and type sudo apt-get install thunderbird.

How come you were able to learn how to do it by drag-and-drop on macOS, even though installing an application by D&D is completely unintuitive and unique to apple, but learning how to do it the linux way is an insurmontable task that you can't expect normal people to figure out?

Why is it people with kids can handle a 2-3 hours long interview on-site + travel that probably required taking time off work but can't handle a 4 hours assignment that they can do whenever?

The latest additions to the standard library generally follow that approach: java.time, java.nio etc. But of course the older API are still fully mutable OO. A new collections API, immutable by default, is still needed and that's not happening any time soon.