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Does anyone else think like this article is written in a bombastic, obfuscatory style? I feel like the author is more concerned about communicating how very intelligent he is than warning other developers about the dangers of fork-join frameworks. Who is he trying to impress?

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Between on the author's explicit trademark annotations, division of the world into "junior", "senior", and "architect", pretentious grammatical hypercorrection[1], and casual dismissal of sun.misc.Unsafe use, I think I'd hate working with the him.

[1] Why the fuck am I supposed to trust someone who doesn't understand the distinction between "it's" and "its" to tell me that all of Oracle's language designers got a core piece of infrastructure irrecoverably wrong?

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