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tuczion Pointers and references practice (2019)

+1. Pointers are the pain point for beginners in programming generally and sometimes for those who switch from other languages. This article is good start point for them to catch up if they need to.

tuczion Accidentally Overwriting Another Local Variable in C and C++

As the author said: an oldie but goodie.

tuczion FortiGuard XOR Encryption in Multiple Fortinet Products

Good point. As far as I know, a long time to fix isn't an exception but rather a standard in such cases. That hursts even more :(

tuczion FortiGuard XOR Encryption in Multiple Fortinet Products

A long time ago, I thought such things don't really happen but the more experience I have less surprised I am.

tuczion Know your tools: JVM's jstack

jstack does only one thing but does it well :) It is one of the most useful tools while debugging JVM apps and everybody should get to know it.

tuczion Lombok Saved My Ass

Absolutely agree that Lombok increases Java readability. If I cannot use JVM alternatives like Kotlin or Scala (for whatever reasons), Lombok is a perfect tool to help beeing productive.

IMO saving one line with @Cleanup is not worth it but if the class doesn't implement AutoClosable, I think it makes code more readable too.