Craig P. Motlin

United States

Age: 29

Contributor to the GS Collections Java collections framework. Fan of static languages like Scala and Haskell.

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Which parallel sorting algorithm has the best average case performance?

algorithm sorting concurrency asked Oct 19 '10 at 15:07

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19 votes

Best Practice: Initialize JUnit class fields in setUp() or at declaration?

java junit asked Feb 4 '09 at 16:44

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17 votes

Why is catching an exception non-pure, but throwing an exception is pure?

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16 votes

How to enforce usage of the @Override annotation?

java continuous-integration static-analysis asked Apr 26 '11 at 17:51

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15 votes

What code does the compiler generate for autoboxing?

java autoboxing asked Jan 3 '09 at 5:32

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15 votes

What is the difference between a view and a stream?

scala scala-2.8 asked Feb 17 '10 at 17:08

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12 votes

Stop eclipse from line wrapping?

eclipse asked May 20 '09 at 23:53

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12 votes

Is there a brief syntax for executing a block n times in Scala?

scala asked May 16 '10 at 3:56

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12 votes

Wait for an Actor to exit()

unit-testing scala concurrency actor asked Jun 24 '10 at 4:40

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11 votes

Why won't this generic java code compile?

java generics asked Mar 19 '09 at 13:27

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What's your most controversial programming opinion?

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Which is the best IDE for Scala development?

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Best way to handle multiple constructors in Java

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How do I use a foreach loop in Java to loop through the values in a HashMap?

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In Java, how do I find the caller of a method using stacktrace or reflection?

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What is the rationale behind having companion objects in Scala?

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Things possible in Eclipse that aren’t possible in IntelliJ?

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Is this (Lock-Free) Queue Implementation Thread-Safe?

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In Java, is it ever a bad idea to make an object's members publicly available?

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Synchronizing eclipse save action rules

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Best Practice: Initialize JUnit class fields in setUp() or at declaration?

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How to break a maven build when there is a dependency conflict?

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Delete duplicate files using ant?

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Maven dependency best practices

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What code does the compiler generate for autoboxing?

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Java Concurrency Techniques

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Any satisfactory approaches to unit testing thread safety in Java?

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Java Generics: How do i make the method return type Generic?

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Should I use past or present tense in git commit messages?

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Cartesian Product and Map Combined in Scala

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Bug in Scala's type system?

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How do I get Maven to fail when conflicting versions of the same artifact are referenced?

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Compile error: “'<>' cannot be used with anonymous classes”

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Extending enum

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Do you separate your unit tests from your integration tests?

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Does a running thread in an object prevent it from being garbage collected in java?

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Why catch Exceptions in Java, when you can catch Throwables?

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++ operator in Scala

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Why no i++ in Scala?

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Why does Throwable.getMessage() occasionally return null?

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