this is the rant of the rants

ARE YOU SERIOUS

@RazorSh4rk yes

And for those of us that don't do java?

@ScribeOfGoD #!/bin/bash

Why is this a rant?

@maximizer lambdas in Java 8

@Scrumplex so lambdas can simplify this? I am lost...

@ScribeOfGoD instead of using a css file you put the styling in the <> tag, now this is something like that only worse

@maximizer it would be
new Thread(() -> {
//do stuff
}).start();

@Scrumplex ohh I see.

@maximizer you instantiate a class in the argument of an instabtiation of a class and override a method of the instantiated argument class, do you see how terrible is that?

@RazorSh4rk and Java 8 gets even worse, when working with Lists and Maps. For example: I have a String list, and want to create a new List of the class Person. A Person object can be constructed using new Person("name").
Java 7:
List<Person> people= new ArrayList<>();
for(String item : strings) {
persons.add(new Person(item));
}

Java 8:
List<Person> people = strings.sort().stream().map(Person::new).toList();
//or something like that

WTF

@RazorSh4rk when you put it that way... That's pegi-18. So long i took it for granted without thinking about it... This shit is horrible!

think the rant is the thread is not doing anything?

@Scrumplex Your op code sample is in the old style, not lambda, so I'm kinda confused about your rant later on. I admit I haven't really fucked around with streams (I'd rather use Scala if I want to do a functional/oop hybrid), but in general your later complaints are more straightforward in 8 and are doing a lot more.

I don't see a problem here. This methods has been in use for a long time already.

@RazorSh4rk you do know Google's homepage doesn't have a css file either and loads the css in style tags, right?

It's just a matter of what approach will be better in which case.

When you don't know Java haha

Obfuscators often put whole classes to anonymous classes, to fuck decompilers up.

@gchase It's the older standard convention for kicking off a new thread in Java. Thread takes a subclass of Runnable as it's argument. Runnable only has one method, run(), so if what you're doing is fairly local you can create an anonymous class (one that doesn't have a name) right in the Thread declaration.