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Jach's personal blog

(Largely containing a mind-dump to myselves: past, present, and future)
Current favorite quote: "Supposedly smart people are weirdly ignorant of Bayes' Rule." William B Vogt, 2010

Posts with tag "java"

Why I Sometimes Really Dislike Java - 2010-06-16 02:09:46

Spring Security: basic auth custom message passing - 2011-03-12 17:43:21

Orwell on Object Oriented Programming - 2014-10-06 08:11:24

Why ASDF is confusing - 2021-12-10 04:56:50

Globals in Lisp - 2022-02-04 22:06:39

Language Envy - 2025-08-18 08:26:30


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