Tim B

Tim B has asked 18 questions and find answers to 155 problems.

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A professional programmer and systems architect with many years of experience in technologies ranging from Java and SQL through to NoSQL, C, C++, Python and many many more.

Tim B questions

Regex to match only if two sequences are identical
Why would Sybase not use a functional index?
What is the access type of an anonymous inner class?
Using java streams to put the last encountered value into a map
Can we get painless lazy loading of a Java member in a similar way to the way we can with static singletons?
How do I import protobuf files from one folder in another folder in Eclipse?
Are there other gotchas similar to BigDecimal("1.0").equals(new BigDecimal("1") returning false?
How much does Java optimize string concatenation with +?
Is the Swing repaint() method still safe to use outside the EDT in Java 7+?
How do I compare doubles using JUnit and Hamcrest?

Tim B answers

Why does Java print a negative sign in front of 0 when 0 with no sign is equal and more commonly accepted as correct?
Identity Hashcode to Java Object
How does the order of elements in a HashSet work?
Add new method to an interface which is directly implemented by many classes
Shouldn't the average search time for a linked list be O(N/2)?
Concurrent Execution: Future vs parallelstream
Best strategies when calling a method that should modify more than one variable
Strange behavior in a code to test a thread-safe singleton
How does the XOR (^) swap algorithm work?
Condition variable usage pattern in C/C++ and other languages