Completely agree.

I would only note that for the vast majority of my experience these streams can only return up to a single match. Determinism isn’t really preserved by findFirst, either, unless the sort order is set up that way.

Finding the first Jim Jones in a table is no more reliable that finding any Jim Jones. But finding PersonId 13579 is deterministic whether you findFirst or findAny.

Perhaps you work in a different domain where your experience is different.

I try to prefer .findAny() over .findFirst() because it will perform better in some cases (it will have to resolve whether there are other matches and which one is actually first before it can terminate - more relevant for parallel streams I think. findAny short circuits that) but otherwise I like the first. I’d probably go with some sort of composed predicate for the second, to be able to easily add new criteria. But I could be over engineering.

I mostly just posted because I think not enough people are aware of the reasons to use findAny as a default unless findFirst is needed.

I appreciate you pointing this out. Today is literally my first day on the job after 5 months, but I’ll throw some cash their way after a check or two.

Idk. Been doing it for nearly 20 years and before that I was doing IBM’s take on VBScript for another 10. So I have my own perspective there. I’ve only ever had to parse massive xmls when doing web apps, and for web backends I really only like Java and NodeJS.

But everyone is entitled to their own take. I would imagine there is a streaming parser in other languages as well.

Maybe look into StAX?

Stop plagiarizing my life experience!

I don’t think I’ve ever had a comment deleted there, but I blocked the instance anyway. Life is too short to engage with people whose values are entirely antithetical to my own. At least not on their home turf.

All of this. I just blocked the sub. It’s not in my interest to raise my blood pressure over what a bunch of chuckle fucks think of my choices. It’s fucking weird the pejoratives they invent. Carnist? That’s cool, like an artist. Whatever. They can live in their world and I’ll stay out of it. They aren’t affecting me.

Sometime between 2013 and 2018. Had to answer it myself. It got at least a couple dozen upvotes and a lot of people finding it useful and asking follow up questions.

It’s deleted now. To be fair it was probably really outdated. But my account seems to be completely gone now. Maybe it got hacked. I haven’t been there in a long time.

lol. You were blocked because they didn’t like your comment was getting upvotes? Idk, buddy. Good riddance, I’d say. I understand about the lack of content, though.

Yeah. My sympathies lie with OP, but communities should be able to unapologetically curate their vibe.

Flash and applets. Let’s just have a do over of the 90’s and early 00’s.

/s

As I’ve gotten older, I find most of the stereotypes I grew up believing were bullshit and not particularly useful for classifying the subjects of the stereotype—however I do find they help me categorize the people who believe them.

So you’re a white dude who thinks black people like fried chicken and watermelon? They do. So do white people because that shit is cheap and delicious. But you’re a racist.

All cops are bad? The last few years have been revelatory about a problem that has existed for decades. But you’re a moral absolutist and not someone to discuss nuanced issues with.

Republicans are better with the economy/foreign policy? You liked Regan and never grew out of it.

The stereotypes themselves aren’t really useful, but understanding the speaker is sometimes helpful.

It’s a convenient way to work together remotely. I’m in the US and my partner for a project is in Portugal. GitHub isn’t the only solution, but it’s very convenient.

Fuck all that noise. Give me more Baldur’s Gate. I’m the biggest Star Wars fan and I haven’t bought a game since KotOR other than Survivor and the sequel. Because every time one catches my interest they start talking about all the cool DLC or things that are locked behind months or years of progression. I just won’t.

I have a very feminist outlook on things, but I enjoy some problematic things. I know it’s not very progressive of me, but it is what it is. I acknowledge they are problematic.

Which is just to say, I don’t like this. I understand, but I’m not a fan.

This feels more like an integration test than a unit test to me. Maybe that’s not an important distinction to make, but it feels like it would also help communicate intent.

There is a need for heavy math in the field of programming, but most programmers will not ever need it. I’ve been a developer for over 25 years and I’ll bet I’ve never needed anything more complicated than Boolean algebra except for maybe 3 times. Which is infuriating when I get asked to write a stupid algorithm on every damn job interview. Like I think there is a need for maybe one math guy in a whole department.

Most programming is not “web scale.” Even though every hiring manager seems to think their needs are particularly unusual or complex. With the exception of maybe the S&P 50 or something, they aren’t.

I’m sure as hell not down for revolution and violence, no.