One of the nasty little traps a Java developer can run into occurs when Collection.contains(Object) is not used with appropriate understanding. I demonstrate this potential trap in this post.

An academic paper [PDF] published in 2018 identified a code snippet Lundblad posted on the site as the most copied Java code taken from StackOverflow and then re-used in open source projects.

Florian Mueller has been killing it these past few months with his analysis of various tech patent suits on his FOSSpatents blog, and today he's unearthed a pretty major bombshell: at least 43 ...