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chrislynch42 | 7 years ago | on: The ACLU Retreats from Free Expression

Abortion, Gun Rights and Religious Freedom are low hanging fruit. To my mind, as a nation we are becoming less tolerant rather than more tolerant across the board. One of the reasons I have largely disconnected from Social Media.

chrislynch42 | 7 years ago | on: The ACLU Retreats from Free Expression

I had already read it and didn't see anything compelling. Basically it says its hard to maintain a tolerant cohesive society with intolerant nincompoops running around.

We have intolerant groups on both sides of many issues. Are we going to censor all of them?

chrislynch42 | 8 years ago | on: JDK 10: General Availability

I was surprised by the responses about Optionals. Will have to look into it. As an alternative I have been looking to use the following to guarantee that certain methods cannot/will not return null (below). Maybe that is the better way to go?

return Optional.ofNullable(applications).orElseThrow(NullPointerException::new);

return Optional.ofNullable(applications).orElse(new Application());

chrislynch42 | 8 years ago | on: JDK 10: General Availability

var seems like a bad idea to me. One of the things I like about Java is (strong?) typing. Recently learning C# and was put off by 'var'. Why is it a good idea?

chrislynch42 | 8 years ago | on: Leap: An Online Community for Women

Being a rapist is illegal, while identifying as a man is not.

I would think a better analogy is that a rape support group would not allow male victims as most rapists are men.

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