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What if Yoda had been a little harsher?

Yoda’s been through a lot. Moving from sitting on the Jedi council, through watching your order get decimated (by a Jedi you didn’t want), to living in a swamp – it’s a rough deal for a 900 year old dude.

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Java 9 – new reserved keyword ‘secret’

[This was April Fool’s, obviously] Under the guidance provided by the ‘Keep it Secret, Keep it Safe’ (KISKIS) principle, secret is a proposed new keyword under Java 1.9. This keyword is designed to be used in cases where an open and extensible

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Annotations with Meaning

Background There are some annotations which exist not to directly offer functionality but as a helper for the developer and for the developers which follow. There are some annotations which should exist, but have yet to reach the public eye.

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