Pretending there are pointers in Java
Values. References. Value of a reference? Reference to a value? Value of a value? Reference to a reference? Pass by value, or pass by reference? Pass referen...
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The lazy FizzBuzz: an interview interlude
It’s internship season, and I’m on the hunt. I better know my interview questions if I want to survive the winter. Let’s start out with good old FizzBuzz:
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In my last post, I mentioned writing an easy depth first search for an assignment, and hinted that .parallel() may help us find the shortest traversal to the...
Can we zip it? (Yes, we can.)
Another day, another assignment to overthink. Last time, we used a recursive flatMap to generate a stream of files with a given parent directory. In today’s ...
Recursive streams in Java 8 addendum
The results are in. I rigged up a quick nanosecond timer to compare the five recursive directory streams from my last post, and You Won’t Believe What Happen...