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What is the purpose of the tumbleweed badge?

badges asked Jul 1 '09 at 19:10

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Should an abstract class have a serialVersionUID

java serialization abstract-class serialversionuid asked May 21 '09 at 14:37

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Is SecureRandom thread safe?

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Why are regular expressions greedy by default?

regex language-design regex-greedy asked Feb 16 '10 at 17:44

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How do I explain 2 to the power of zero equals 1 to a child

arithmetic teaching asked Nov 10 '10 at 14:22

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When do Java generics require <? extends T> instead of <T> and is there any downside of switching?

java generics junit asked May 22 '09 at 13:48

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Does anyone know of a fork of iText?

java pdf itext asked Jul 1 '10 at 23:11

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Is it possible to reference a nested generic parameter in java?

java generics asked Jun 15 '09 at 15:50

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Should you always use an ExecutorService instead of starting your own thread?

java multithreading asked Jul 13 '10 at 12:49

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How can we be more tolerant of humor?

discussion humor asked Jul 7 '09 at 13:34

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Conditionally ignoring tests in JUnit 4

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Get current stack trace in Java

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Glorified classes in the Java language

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When to use Comparable vs Comparator

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