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by frollogaston 22 days ago
pebkac is always the excuse with Java. "Oh, you didn't pass 6 -Xmxsmxmwhatever flags to make the JVM do sane things with your memory? You did stuff the regular way instead of whatever decorator-heavy framework? You didn't use this new feature they added last release? Were you born yesterday?"

And then there is real pebkac. Java code tends to be the worst, even though there are more newb-friendly things out there like JS. Sure you can choose to be a good programmer and use Java, but if you're being offered to join a "Java team," that doesn't usually mean good things.