Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Anyone who sees the const keyword in Java would logically assume its original intention was to ...

Planck's constant reveals the quantum world's fundamental energy levels. It shows how light and matter exist in discrete units (quanta). This constant defines limits to our knowledge of particle ...

The fundamental constants of the Universe appear to be fine-tuned with incredible precision to allow for life. The slightest variation would make our existence impossible, raising a profound question.

What’s the difference between versions of Minecraft? That’s not as simple a question to answer as you might think. Most current players will be used to whatever version they’ve started on, whether ...

The JavaScript Set was introduced to the language in the ES2015 spec, but it has always seemed incomplete. That's about to change. Before we look at the new functionality, let's recap what JavaScript ...

Abstract: Microbenchmarking evaluates, in isolation, the execution time of small code segments that play a critical role in large applications. The accuracy of a microbenchmark depends on two critical ...

Computed constants offer the performance and safety benefits of final fields, but greater flexibility in the timing of initialization, the proposal states. An OpenJDK proposal would introduce computed ...

Abstract: Refactoring tools suffer from usability in the areas of automating mundane tasks, providing user customization, and providing strategies for error recovery ...