Brian Goetz
@briangoetz.bsky.social
Java Language Architect at Oracle. Author, Java Concurrency in Practice (http://amzn.to/2nzZnkl). Also, cats.
What does it mean when the guy who pleads the fifth to the last 2000 questions actually answers one?
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
What does it mean when the guy who pleads the fifth to the last 2000 questions actually answers one?
Don't look now, but there's an alien crawling out of your backpack...
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Don't look now, but there's an alien crawling out of your backpack...
Just put them all in one big Utils class, what could go wrong?
November 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Just put them all in one big Utils class, what could go wrong?
Came here to be disappointed that no one has yet made a “gibbering” pun.
November 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Came here to be disappointed that no one has yet made a “gibbering” pun.
"Deprive words of their meaning so those words can't be used against you"
October 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"Deprive words of their meaning so those words can't be used against you"
Oh, it probably only works once, but when it does, it does so spectacularly.
October 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Oh, it probably only works once, but when it does, it does so spectacularly.
Are the demands reasonable? If so, you should just agree, she’ll be so flustered that it worked that she won’t know what to do next.
October 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Are the demands reasonable? If so, you should just agree, she’ll be so flustered that it worked that she won’t know what to do next.
Are you saying the customers had absolutely zero responsibility to assess counterparty risk? Come on now.
Someone who can’t tell the difference between “X deserve some of the blame too” and “you are blaming X” has too little grasp of nuance to participate in this conversation. Blocked.
Someone who can’t tell the difference between “X deserve some of the blame too” and “you are blaming X” has too little grasp of nuance to participate in this conversation. Blocked.
October 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Are you saying the customers had absolutely zero responsibility to assess counterparty risk? Come on now.
Someone who can’t tell the difference between “X deserve some of the blame too” and “you are blaming X” has too little grasp of nuance to participate in this conversation. Blocked.
Someone who can’t tell the difference between “X deserve some of the blame too” and “you are blaming X” has too little grasp of nuance to participate in this conversation. Blocked.
Imagine my shock that the edgy, upstart, "we're not like those old stodgy hidebound brokers who make you follow a lot of rules" had a somewhat looser set of operational parameters.
This might have been irresponsible on RH's part, but it's not so surprising, nor are the customers blameless either.
This might have been irresponsible on RH's part, but it's not so surprising, nor are the customers blameless either.
October 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Imagine my shock that the edgy, upstart, "we're not like those old stodgy hidebound brokers who make you follow a lot of rules" had a somewhat looser set of operational parameters.
This might have been irresponsible on RH's part, but it's not so surprising, nor are the customers blameless either.
This might have been irresponsible on RH's part, but it's not so surprising, nor are the customers blameless either.
This is part of what publishers are supposed to do for their ~85% of the gross.
October 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This is part of what publishers are supposed to do for their ~85% of the gross.
I'm not just pissed about that. I'm also pissed about having to give up my em dashes just to avoid the parrot chorus of "looks like AI".
October 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I'm not just pissed about that. I'm also pissed about having to give up my em dashes just to avoid the parrot chorus of "looks like AI".
And now this guy is going to go on OneFoxMaxNews all bloody and claim that he got beat up by the violent radical leftists at the "so called peaceful protest"
October 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
And now this guy is going to go on OneFoxMaxNews all bloody and claim that he got beat up by the violent radical leftists at the "so called peaceful protest"
Buy a foundation that already issues some sort of award, and rename their prize to something that sounds noble
October 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Buy a foundation that already issues some sort of award, and rename their prize to something that sounds noble
That mean compiler! Always spoiling the fun.
October 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
That mean compiler! Always spoiling the fun.
"we'd have to look into that very strongly"
October 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"we'd have to look into that very strongly"
Isn't this exactly why you are always reading like six books at once? Seems like a classic "concurrency hides latency" solution....
October 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Isn't this exactly why you are always reading like six books at once? Seems like a classic "concurrency hides latency" solution....
The "or something" tic is an excellent bayesian indicator.
October 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The "or something" tic is an excellent bayesian indicator.
So, in English, "poser" means someone who acts as if they have qualifications or expertise that they do not.
This is one of those words that has always seemed like it should be a cognate, but isn't, but in the case of your kitchen installers, perhaps is.
This is one of those words that has always seemed like it should be a cognate, but isn't, but in the case of your kitchen installers, perhaps is.
October 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
So, in English, "poser" means someone who acts as if they have qualifications or expertise that they do not.
This is one of those words that has always seemed like it should be a cognate, but isn't, but in the case of your kitchen installers, perhaps is.
This is one of those words that has always seemed like it should be a cognate, but isn't, but in the case of your kitchen installers, perhaps is.
In the spirit of the rampant misuse of "exponentially", one might call this a failure of logarithmic proportions.
October 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
In the spirit of the rampant misuse of "exponentially", one might call this a failure of logarithmic proportions.
Et aussi: generalement, il y'a un seul lieu qu'on peut mettre l'evier...
October 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Et aussi: generalement, il y'a un seul lieu qu'on peut mettre l'evier...
And it gets even worse with more ducks!
You can prove this inducktively.
You can prove this inducktively.
October 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
And it gets even worse with more ducks!
You can prove this inducktively.
You can prove this inducktively.
It is funny how hobbies can be made almost entirely of dull or frustrating stuff (e.g. chopping onions) and yet be satisfying in the aggregate.
October 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It is funny how hobbies can be made almost entirely of dull or frustrating stuff (e.g. chopping onions) and yet be satisfying in the aggregate.
Every new recruit is a victory
October 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Every new recruit is a victory