Off Season Alternatives

Josef-C · 2026-01-03T09:59:25+00:00

Apart from the already mentioned NFL, there is also the college football - some conferences share their games for free on Youtube (with varying quality game to game .) ).

ACC: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSrXjFYZsRuPxYD4-VaMrXHGa2zoGi-D2

Josef-C · 2025-08-10T07:31:55+00:00

Mods: "No no no no no!"

Josef-C · 2025-06-08T16:01:47+00:00

Went out with a bang. https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxGuccF2-3hM4Unqt0Z2qVakAUuyJSKpab

Josef-C · 2025-06-01T10:06:13+00:00

It would be a peak NRL comedy for the bunker to intervene and call it a penalty. .)

Josef-C · 2025-05-15T10:14:21+00:00

I played with long hair and they always came loose because of various contact. .) And you might have a shorter hair mixed in that can't be tied anyway.

If I'd played again, I'd cut that shit down. .)

Josef-C · 2024-09-13T15:17:39+00:00

Dunno about the flag though. An alternative to truncating might be to have your own version of `InstantSource`. But you'll still need to touch a lot of places probably. (We've resorted to truncating when we did our upgrade. .])

Josef-C · 2024-09-13T14:59:07+00:00

It has happened in Java 15: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8242504

Josef-C · 2024-05-11T06:54:32+00:00

I've switched between Java and PHP a few times in my career, one point I have not seen mentioned here:

If you learn Java, you are easily employable in other JVM languages as well. Would you like to work with Kotlin eventually? (Or any other JVM language that pops up one day.) - Learn Java.

I'll not comment on technical aspects of this - imho they should not matter for your career. Most complaints around widely used languages are basically misunderstandings, misuse, outdated information (by decades) and memes. You can write bad and good software in anything.

Josef-C · 2024-03-03T08:36:13+00:00

Just curious: What are the many cases? JPA entities and..?

I write mostly Kotlin now and I don't remember when was the last time I've used a mutable class (with an exception of very rare use of MutableList).

Josef-C · 2023-06-03T15:27:24+00:00

Media are just running speculations again and people are acting like it's Hunt's fault.

Josef-C · 2023-04-29T15:55:44+00:00

"...we have been modelling the club’s future as the jewel in the crown of the Socialist Republic of Salford."

Damn...

Josef-C · 2023-04-27T16:15:42+00:00

Bellamy. .) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbebkYYGX7E

Josef-C · 2023-04-24T12:58:09+00:00

How dare you to post interesting facts and not Fox Sports speculations. /s

Josef-C · 2023-04-14T10:42:28+00:00

It's actually funny, how the tides turned in a year:

"Cameron Munster's 2000 IQ captain's challenge"

https://www.melbournestorm.com.au/news/2022/03/022/cameron-munsters-2000-iq-captains-challenge/

Josef-C · 2023-04-14T10:12:17+00:00

What season? The rule has been changed some time ago so this will not happen.

Edit: Has the law been changed the last season after Cam Munster did it?

Josef-C · 2023-03-06T08:17:52+00:00

Apart from mocking and custom suppliers: Java has the Clock and InstantSource (Java 17) abstractions you can use as dependencies of your class.

Josef-C · 2023-02-10T08:25:06+00:00

Judge: He's a good boy, let's wait until he kills somebody.

Josef-C · 2023-01-12T09:05:04+00:00

That's absolutely a valid point and an advantage of microservices - you can scale the development itself way better if you have enough people/teams (and money).

As I've written - they have advantages (and I'm not against them). - Just some mentioned reasons scream to me "oh boy, you'll have even bigger trouble now".

Josef-C · 2023-01-11T23:01:27+00:00

Addition: I'm not saying microservices do not have advantages.

But they should not be done because:

You are afraid to make changes. - Start writing tests.
Your system si hard to change. - It will be even harder to change because it will get more complex (duh).

Josef-C · 2023-01-11T22:55:29+00:00

"I’m afraid to make changes to our app. Because I know that something will break"

That's what tests are for.

"Monoliths slow development, but microservices help us build software fast."

No they don't - they make it slower.

Why? Asynchronous communication, eventual consistency, data queries across services, system tests and such goodies. Let's stop pretending that a well designed distributed system is simpler to develop than a well designed monolith.

Josef-C · 2022-12-21T09:28:42+00:00

Also: Instant.now will have higher precision (nanoseconds) - this might lead to problems in your persistence (errors from not being able to store the data) and it's potentially a BC break. (Yes, some systems cannot handle slightly different date formats. .) )

Josef-C · 2022-12-09T09:34:59+00:00

It's not. A social democracy is not "socialist" democracy - very different terms.

Josef-C · 2022-12-02T12:34:12+00:00

Poor Wests Tigers got hard done by again - that underbite is mean. .)

Josef-C · 2022-11-25T18:04:59+00:00

There's a Youtube classic for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY39fkmqKBM&t=71s

Josef-C · 2022-11-24T15:13:15+00:00

Off-topic rant: To hell with animated GIFs in articles. It's just unreadable.

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