#java basic questions

[vanshnath]

[phantomrose96]

Hey not to go all "tumblr is a professional networking site" on you, but how did you get to work for Microsoft??? I'm a recent grad and I'm being eviscerated out here trying to apply for industry jobs & your liveblogging about your job sounds so much less evil than Data Entry IT Job #43461

This place is basically LinkedIn to me.

I'm gonna start by saying I am so so very sorry you're a recent grad in the year 2024... Tech job market is complete ass right now and it is not just you. I started fulltime in 2018, and for 2018-2022 it was completely normal to see a yearly outflow of people hopping to new jobs and a yearly inflow of new hires. Then sometime around late-spring/early-summer of 2022 Wallstreet sneezed the word "recession" and every tech company simultaneously shit themselves.

Tons of layoffs happened, meaning you're competing not just with new grads but with thousands of experienced workers who got shafted by their company. My org squeaked by with a small amount of layoffs (3 people among ~100), but it also means we have not hired anyone new since mid-2022. And where I used to see maybe 4-8 people yearly leave in order to hop to a new job, I think I've seen 1 person do that in the whole last year and a half.

All this to say it's rough and I can't just say "send applications and believe in yourself :)".

I have done interviews though. (I'm not involved in resume screening though, just the interviews of candidates who made it past the screening phase.) So I have at least some relevant advice, as well as second-hand knowledge from other people I know who've had to hop jobs or get hired recently.

If you have friends already in industry who you feel comfortable asking, reach out to them. Most companies have a recommendation process where a current employee fills out a little form that says "yeah I'd recommend such-and-such for this job." These do seem to carry weight, since it's coming from a trusted internal person and isn't just one of the hundreds of cold-call applications they've received.

A lot of tech companies--whether for truly well-intentioned reasons or to just check a checkbox--are on the lookout for increasing employee diversity. If you happen to have anything like, for example, "member of my college Latino society", it's worth including on your resume among your technical skills and technical projects.

I would add "you're probably gonna have to send a lot of applications" as a bullet point but I'm sure you're already doing that. But here it is as a bullet point anyway.

(This is kind of a guess, since it's part of the resume screening) but if you can dedicate some time to getting at least passingly familiar with popular tech/stacks for the positions you're looking into, try doing that in your free time so you can list it on your resume. Even better if you make a project you can point to. Like if you're aiming for webdev, get familiar with React and probably NodeJS. On top of being comfortable in one of the all-purpose languages like C(++) or Java or Python.

If you get to the interview phase - a company that is good to work for WILL care that you're someone who's good to work with. A tech-genius who's a coworker-hating egotistical snob is a nuisance at best and a liability at worst for companies with even a half-decent culture. When I do interviews, "Is this someone who's a good culture fit?" is as important as the technical skills. You'll want to show you'll be a perfectly pleasant, helpful, collaborative coworker. If the company DOESN'T care about that... bullet dodged.

For the technical questions, I care more about the thought process than I do the right answer, especially for entry-level. If you show a capacity for asking good, insightful clarifying questions, an ability to break down the problem, explain your thought process, and backtrack&alter your approach upon realizing something won't work, that's all more important than just being able to spit out a memorized leetcode answer. (I kinda hate leetcode for this reason, and therefore I only ask homebrewed questions, because I don't want the technical portion to hinge at all on whether someone managed to memorize the first 47 pages of leetcode problems). For a new hire, the most important impression you can give me is that you have a technical grasp and that you're capable of learning. Because a new hire isn't going to be an expert in anything, but they're someone who's capable of learning the ropes.

That's everything I have off the top of my head. Good luck anon. I'm very sorry you were born during a specific range of years that made you a new grad in 2024 and I hope it gets better.

[askthehcc]

Hey hi hello tango how's the whole finding out you're probably adhd going for ya

Tango: [scratches the back of his head]

Tango: Yeah... that.

Tango: Well... Skizz made me speak to my doctor and they're gonna see how long the waitlist is to get tested and get back to me.

Tango: Uh...

Tango: Oh, I called my dad last week and let him know it was something I was thinking about...

Tango: It's not a thing that's talked much about in Blaze culture? So, yeah, I didn't really know what to expect from him.

Tango: And like, I would've talked to my mum first, but she has this habit of like...

Tango: She's basically really protective of me. Probably because of how she found me? Or because I'm the frail little white boy between my freaking monster brothers, but, y'know.

Tango: The point is, I think if I told her I was getting a medical assessment she would totally flipped her lid, y'know?

Tango: Like, she'd be on the next flight out as if I told her I had, like... terminal cancer or something.

Tango: So, yeah, dad first. It was good. He was pretty chill about it. Some of his students had it when he was doing his teaching residency here, so he was pretty familiar with it.

Tango: Said he'd talk to mum about it for me, let her know it's nothing to, like, panic about.

Tango: But yeah, asides from that I'm just waiting to hear back from the doc and in the meantime...

Tango: Well, in the meantime, Skizz is kinda being the most amazing housemate ever.

Tango: I don't know how long he's been doing his research on this, but he's got schedules, charts, meal plans, and all that kinda stuff.

Tango: Like, yeah, I think if I overthought it too much, maybe I would feel kinda shitty that Skizz is basically running my life at the moment...

Tango: But mostly? I think I just feel... like this huge weight has been taken off me. Like I'm not having to carry around all this guilt and stuff around so much anymore.

Tango: I literally don't even know how I'd do it with him. He's taking on so much responsibility for me that... I mean I'm kinda starting to feel bad that way... heh.

Tango: But I gotta just keep reminding myself that this is how Skizz does friendship, how he shows his love.

Tango: Like, there's a reason my mum totally freaking adores that guy, and it's because he's got that tribal heart, you know?

Tango: You're never just good friends with Skizz. Once he decides you're solid, you're part of his family, no questions asked.

Tango: That's why Java Circuit is the way it is, you know? It's all Skizz.

Tango: So yeah, anyway, kind of got off topic there, but generally... that's how things are going with it.

Tango: It's... it's not too bad, actually.

Tango: Thanks for asking.

[erenfox]

Rating TMR Shipssss

Thomesa (Thomas x Teresa): 147284892/10 i will fight you on this. they were literally so precious and tragic. it was like the universe had decided their destiny, but at the end of the day thomas never stopped loving her and neither did she stop loving him. she betrayed everyone for the greater good but redeemed herself to save HIM. i know she made some extremely questionable choices but goddamn theyre always slept upon. thomesa my beloved, they hated you but i never will 😭💔

Newtmas (Newt x Thomas): 3/10 (i can feel the hate radiating towards me) listen. im completely fine with people going batshit crazy over them. but personally? no. seriously, i never understood the overhype and appeal for newtmas. i can completely understand if newt was in love with thomas all this time, but the idea of them being together? nah. i just never saw any sort of romantic tension between them. like, im not being a full-on hater, but i saw them like platonic soulmates. their friendship is literally to die for (ahem ahem newt ahem 💀) and i wish I had a loyal friend like newt. but romantically? nah.

Trenda (Thomas x Brenda): 5/10 tbh they were pretty mid. i mean i can totally see them ending up together post the death cure, but their chemistry felt too forced at times. their friendship dynamic tho? TOP. TIER.

Thominho (Thomas x Minho): 10/10 the close friendship. the trust they have in each other. the things theyve lived thru together. the lengths thomas went to save minho. if thomas was bisexual hed definitely go for minho. CHEFS KISS AAAA

Nalby (Newt x Alby): 7/10 now this is a newt ship that had sm wasted potential. the fact that alby was the first person ever who newt befriended and trusted. the fact that alby was always stern to everyone BUT newt. the fact that they had one of the strongest mutual trust in the glade. the fact that newt was distraught and ready to throw hands with the grievers after they killed alby in the books. they just didn't have enough time. their dynamic i can't 😭

Newtenda (Newt x Brenda): 8/10 NOW LOOK I KNOW NEWT IS GAY AND I RESPECT THAT but i never knew that while watching the movies and reading the books. like seriously, i thought he was straight for the longest time, and the idea of newt ending up with brenda is weirdly wholesome to me. they share similar experiences of going thru hell while being infected and idk i just enjoy this ship very much. if newt wasn't gay, he shouldve definitely ended up with brenda lmao

Brenally (Brenda x Gally): 6/10 same case as newtenda, but they needed more development. otherwise post tdc theyd be so cute :3

Minally (Minho x Gally): 4/10 nah. just, nope. i can see strong friendship and respect for each other throughout tmr and post tdc, but as a ship... pretty bland so nope.

Minewt (Minho x Newt): 8/10 oh yep. absolutely. theyve known each other maybe not as long as nalby, but the things they went thru in tst and tdc... and the efforts newt was ready to make to save minho- like my boi was freaking infected but he chose to focus on saving minho over himself 😭 and minhos reaction on seeing newts dead body just 💔 if this ain't peak idk what is...

Sonyaris (Sonya x Aris): 9/10 best friends? check. immediate relief on finding the other was alive? check. her taking care of him when he got injured? check. him standing up for her? check. both survived the horrific events thrown upon at them? check. what's there not to like?? they just needed more screentime together lol

Thomally (Thomas x Gally): 2/10 nope. too much toxicity, if im being honest. i mean, they did end up working together and becoming somewhat friends at the end, but idts thomas would ever be able to forgive gally for killing chuck. chuck was basically thomas' baby brother. im sure thomas, despite having gotten over chuckie's death, still finds it extremely unfair how gally got saved but chuck didn't.

Java/Avanson (Janson x Ava): 147284892/10 OMFG YESSIRRRRR I JUST LOVE AND ADORE THIS SHIP LIKE WDYM THIS ISN'T CANON HUH LIKE THEY WOULD TOTALLY TRY TO STAB EACH OTHER AND THEN MAKE OUT WOOHOOO (ive gone insane.)

[python-programming-language]

Post #83: Tumblr Opinion Poll by Python-Programming-Language, Question: Which programming resp. script language do you prefer?, 2023.

[small-basic-programming]

Post #176: Opinion poll by Small Basic Programming on Tumblr, Question: Which object-oriented programming language do you prefer to program with?, 2023.

[vexacarnivorous]

hello! i'm a new college student, and the syllabus says c and java are the languages they'll teach in the first two semester. could you direct me to some resources or someone who could help if you're not interested? no pressure, thank you!

hey! i'm unsure how helpful my advice will be because i've only dabbled in c and java, but i can certainly point you in the right direction. i know how much of a pain searching for beginner-friendly resources can be. good luck in your studies, and welcome to college!

GENERAL:

there are a lot of community-curated resources in the tag awesome-list on github. check it out here, and have fun going through them all because you'll never escape

w3schools is great for referencing

this basically gives you the equivalent to a bachelor's degree in computer science and is completely free

freecomputerbooks has a c and java language category. i can't recommend you specific books though

i only discovered wikiversity was a thing when i became an adult, which is a right shame. there's free courses for computer science and information technology

C LANGUAGE:

harvard has an online course called cs50 you can find for free on freecodecamp's youtube channel (the cs50 website also includes notes for the course). it introduces computer science (and the basics of c) pretty nicely

wikiversity's "C Programming" and its wikibook companion

freecodecamp's "C Programming Handbook for Beginners"

if you ever get confused about pointers: A Tutorial on Pointers and Arrays in C

commonly asked c programming questions & answers are in this FAQ

the article "What A C Programmer Should Know About Memory" (a bit more intermediate)

JAVA LANGUAGE:

the wikibook "Java Programming"

wikiversity's java portal has links to both internal and external java resources. i'd recommend looking through it

freecodecamp's "The Java Handbook – Learn Java Programming for Beginners"

freecodecamp's online course "Java Programming for Beginners"

dev.java's "Learn Java"

the free training course offered by oracle

if anyone else has anything to add, feel free to chime in! i hope this helps :)

[youzicha]

Consistency and Reducibility: Which is the theorem and which is the lemma?

Here's an example from programming language theory which I think is an interesting case study about how "stories" work in mathematics. Even if a given theorem is unambiguously defined and certainly true, the ways people contextualize it can still differ.

To set the scene, there is an idea that typed programming languages correspond to logics, so that a proof of an implication A→B corresponds to a function of type A→B. For example, the typing rules for simply-typed lambda calculus are exactly the same as the proof rules for minimal propositional logic, adding an empty type Void makes it intuitionistic propositional logic, by adding "dependent" types you get a kind of predicate logic, and really a lot of different programming language features also make sense as logic rules. The question is: if we propose a new programming language feature, what theorem should we prove in order to show that it also makes sense logically?

The story I first heard goes like this. In order to prove that a type system is a good logic we should prove that it is consistent, i.e. that not every type is inhabited, or equivalently that there is no program of type Void. (This approach is classical in both senses of the word: it goes back to Hilbert's program, and it is justified by Gödel's completeness theorem/model existence theorem, which basically says that every consistent theory describes something.)

Usually it is obvious that no values can be given type Void, the only issue is with non-value expressions. So it suffices to prove that the language is normalizing, that is to say every program eventually computes to a value, as opposed to going into an infinite loop. So we want to prove:

If e is an expression with some type A, then e evaluates to some value v.

Naively, you may try to prove this by structural induction on e. (That is, you assume as an induction hypothesis that all subexpressions of e normalize, and prove that e does.) However, this proof attempt gets stuck in the case of a function call like (λx.e₁) e₂. Here we have some function (λx.e₁) : A→B and a function argument e₂ : A. The induction hypothesis just says that (λx.e₁) normalizes, which is trivially true since it's already a value, but what we actually need is an induction hypothesis that says what will happen when we call the function.

In 1967 William Tait had a good idea. We should instead prove:

If e is an expression with some type A, then e is reducible at type A.

"Reducible at type A" is a predicate defined on the structure of A. For base types, it just means normalizable, while for function types we define

e is reducable at type A→B ⇔ for all expressions e₁, if e₁ is reducible at A then (e e₁) is reducible at B.

For example, an function is reducible at type Bool→Bool→Bool if whenever you call it with two normalizing boolean arguments, it returns a boolean value (rather than looping forever).

This really is a very good idea, and it can be generalized to prove lots of useful theorems about programming languages beyond just termination. But the way I (and I think most other people, e.g. Benjamin Pierce in Types and Programming Languages) have told the story, it is strictly a technical device: we prove consistency via normalization via reducibility.

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The story works less well when you consider programs that aren't normalizing, which is certainly not an uncommon situation: nothing in Java or Haskell forbids you from writing infinite loops. So there has been some interest in how dependent types work if you make termination-checking optional, with some famous projects along these lines being Idris and Dependent Haskell. The idea here is that if you write a program that does terminate it should be possible to interpret it as a proof, but even if a program is not obviously terminating you can still run it.

At this point, with the "consistency through normalization" story in mind, you may have a bad idea: "we can just let the typechecker try to evaluate a given expression at typechecking-time, and if it computes a value, then we can use it as as a proof!" Indeed, if you do so then the typechecker will reject all attempts to "prove" Void, so you actually create a consistent logic.

If you think about it a little longer, you notice that it's a useless logic. For example, an implication like ∀n.(n² = 3) is provable, it's inhabited by the value (λn. infinite_loop()). That function is a perfectly fine value, even though it will diverge as soon as you call it. In fact, all ∀-statements and implications are inhabited by function values, and proving universally quantified statements is the entire point of using logical proof at all.

❧

So what theorem should you prove, to ensure that the logic makes sense? You want to say both that Void is unprovable, and also that if a type A→B is inhabited, then A really implies B, and so on recursively for any arrow types inside A or B. If you think a bit about this, you want to prove that if e:A, then e is reducible at type A... And in fact, Kleene had already proposed basically this (under the name realizability) as a semantics for Intuitionistic Logic, back in the 1940s.

So in the end, you end up proving the same thing anyway—and none of this discussion really becomes visible in the formal sequence of theorems and lemmas. The false starts need to passed along in the asides in the text, or in tumblr posts.

[christian-ford]

Christian Ford: What You Need To Know

Talkative, passionate, and strong-willed, Christian Ford is either the life of the party or the person that turns on the lights…depending on the day. In actuality, he’s a thinker, and every action means something; still, something about him remains spontaneous, as if he’s playing life by ear just as much as he’s absorbed in a world of decision. What will he do next? Read on to get some idea.

Basics

Name: Christian Victor Ford

Age: 27 (born May 9, 1997)

Gender and Pronouns: cisgender male, he/him/his

Hometown: Seattle, Washington

Occupation: published novelist (two books in a series out, with a third on its way)

Residence: a surprisingly tidy condo on Coral Coast

Brief Biography

Christian was born to two seemingly loving parents in a seemingly perfect place. If that were the case, though, why did he feel so out of step? Seattle was beautiful, at times; but Christian longed for different vistas, a place where he could “imagine”, as he put it. “Imagining” meant dreaming of different universes, different people. It meant the beginnings of what would become his occupation: writing novels.

Christian’s father Michael did not “imagine”. He charmed—neighbors, public figures, extended family (on his mother’s side). And he seemed to change in different lights—in one situation, a leader, then all at once, an avid supporter. In fact, he didn’t seem to have a personality at all. Christian suspected that his father was less than genuine when they were eating Christmas dinner one year and his father said, “I hate this.” The remark was worded so succinctly (unlike him), so callously (what Christian was forced to acknowledge was really him) that Christian could no longer deny what had been in front of him the whole time. His “businessman” of a father really dealt in promises—promises that were paper-thin.

When Christian left for college, flying halfway across the country to Chicago, he implied that he would return home. This was something that his mother, who he loved (and loves) deeply, could have discerned was false. His dad bought it, however. The college graduate that emerged from U Chicago and moved to Windsor Bay made Michael Ford absolutely livid. But that was life! If Christian’s father wanted to enter the town that his predecessors had founded, taking on the dark legacy of the Fords, he could do so. But Mr. Ford would never follow his son anywhere, least of all to a destination of Christian’s own decision. And Mr. Ford had no idea that Christian’s motivations for choosing Windsor Bay were truly Christian’s own. He liked the idea of continuing something (though he’d learn the full extent of what he’d be “continuing” later, once he’d settled into town). And he liked small towns. This would make the move well worth it.

Now Christian writes to his heart’s content, settled on the beach the way he likes. It’s not all fun and games. He’s restless; and he hates the very recent loneliness his lifestyle has granted him (via the popular duology he wrote that seemingly must be “lived up to” with a showstopper of a third novel. It’s driving him absolutely insane). But Christian will likely find that life, despite its reliability at times, doesn’t play by rules and doesn’t do what it “did before”. He’ll learn something; the only question, and one he asks himself on these new, lonely nights with his thoughts as company, is what can be taught to someone with such anger.

His secret, well-kept, is that he is deeply angry. And the kicker? It’s not directed at anything at all. That’s pretty dangerous.

Wanted Connections

Testing the Waters (1/2)—While Christian doesn’t do casual hookups anymore, he does date. (Maybe too enthusiastically… He really likes romance.) If your character (identifying as female) wants to “test the waters” with Christian, going anywhere from Java Junction to Christian’s own place to see if they have a spark, this connection is for you. And you can opt for the meet-cute, or the date itself, or even something more unique. This connection is to learn if there is a connection…or to ease into one.

Closer Than Brothers (0/2)—Christian already has a brother (who he honestly doesn’t like), but if your male character wants a close friend—someone who is loyal and dedicated to those he trusts—then this connection may be for you. Christian loves all kinds of company, but he cherishes those most who are open and real with him. Maybe that’s your character?

Taken Connections

Exes (1/1)—Christian has an ex in town, one that he fell in love with and ended things amicably with (it was a mutual agreement). But something about her still gets to him late at night… If your character wants an ex who is somewhat moody, extremely passionate, and loves both mixed signals and big gestures, this connection is for you.

[chaossmp]

(ATTENTION- CSMP Has been delayed! My deepest apologies for this inconvenience. It will hopefully be ready sometime in 2025! I will still post updates etc on here thank you for your patience and support)

Welcome to The Chaos Smp!

This Smp is all for chaos and friend making. If you are interested in joining please message me on tumblr. Now some info and such

You’ll need to have these following requirements to join!

Have Discord

Have Java Minecraft

AGES 12-18

Dont be disrespectful! (The basic rules!)

Things you can do:

Live stream?

Yes!

Post about it on social media?

Yes! Yes! Yes! Of Course!

Make Videos about it ETC?

100% Please do.

Invite other people and give them the info?

No! Please dont! If you know some one who is interested in joining please tell them to message BlueJay!

Here is some basic information now!

LORE:

The Chaos SMP will have lore. The players of the smp will help set up the lore and we will collaborate. You do not have to be apart of the lore unless you wish.

SOCIAL MEDIA RULES:

Yes you may live stream, Post on youtube, ETC. But please be respectful! I honestly think it will be awesome is you post about it. Please make sure to state it is the Chaos Smp!

Thank you so much for reading this! I hope you have a great time on the Chaos SMP If you join! If you have any questions please message me!

There are only 23 spots so message me!!

-Sincerly BlueJay (The Creator of The Chaos SMP)

[syen998-twenty-percent-project]

3/10 Blog Post

I have come here today to inform you that I recently have been working on a website for my translator. The website is still under construction, but upon completion it will just be a simple, basic website. It will comprise of four main sections:

Home Page The homepage will just introduce the translator, giving some background information and explanations of various use cases in which it provides an advantage.

Blog Posts Users will soon also be able to view blog posts on the website, rather than being directed to the Tumblr page. In other words, more information will be available, in more places.

History Section The website is designed to have an extremely short page explaining how this project began and where we are now. It will provide a little context for the translator.

Frequently Asked Questions I will also be able to answer a few questions that conceivably be commonly asked. This includes things like my inspiration for making this translator, why I chose to program in Java, and more!

I anticipate that this website could become an extremely helpful resource, giving everyone a simple, easy way to see the information provided in an accessible manner. Anyone with a computer will be able to view this website.

Unfortunately, this website is still under development, as websites can be extremely difficult to create. It is unsure when the website will ultimately become available, but I anticipate sometime within the next couple months, in March or April. I will keep you posted on its development!

[a-fox-studies]

Hello Iris! Im Yvaine, I've been following you for a while now and I just wanted to say that you and your blog have inspired me a lot as a student and im so thankful for that ♡

And regarding my question, I am a beginner who wants to learn how to code, so what programming language do you recommend I start with??

Thanks!

Thankyou so much!!! I'm glad I can help others by being myself :)

I started off with Java because of school syllabus, but putting that aside — if you have a particular career in mind, then go with languages that pertain to that field. For example, an aspiring web developer would start with HTML.

If you're not set on a particular field and you're completely new, then I would recommend Java for an understanding of how everything works, and to know about basic concepts. You can also learn Python, and after that you could do small projects like a tic-tac-toe game, or rock-paper-scissors game to wrap up your understanding of the basics. I feel like you'd have a good idea of everything by then <3

@vexacarnivorous @codemerything @moose-mousse you can give your opinions and suggestions too to help out :)

[iwantbrioche]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but are there any plans to make an Arti-themed scugpup type? I've been thinking about the terms "Plosionpup" or "Cherrypup" for them ^-^

If not... How hard was it, learning how to mod? I know it's a lot of work, but I've been thinking about getting into modding for years, and I'm kinda tempted to try this at some point

There actually will be an Artificer variant coming to Pups+ along with an additional variant! They'll be called Boompups. As for the other variant, I can't say what it'll be ;] These variants will be the final ones added to the mod, mostly due to me not wanting to bloat the spawn chances with variants. To answer your second question, I'd say it was pretty hard, it really depends on prior knowledge and experience. I was already knowledge-able in Python and Java combined with years of coding experience in school. Rain World is coded in C#, which is very similar to Java, so the knowledge easily transferred over. However there are multiple learning curves in code modding, such as ILHooking, Graphics coding, Creature coding, etc. Someone who hasn't coded before or doesn't know C#/similar would have a much tougher time learning, especially because of how weird Rain World modding is. If you are wanting to start making code mods but you don't know C#, I highly suggest learning that first. Just the basics will probably sufficient for simple mods. There is also region modding, which usually doesn't require coding, but comes with its own set of learning curves. I wouldn't know about it though. TL;DR: Boompups and was hard

[one-with-the-tree]

Kinda both love and hate currently owning a book so obscure I can literally find no information about the book itself or the author.

It's called Belevenissen met dieren uit de jungle (Dutch) by Tjebbe Franken and is about the experiences someone (presumably the author but not made explicitly clear) had living with wild animals in various jungles, mostly in Java. It's not a very good book and involves a lot of painful-to-read animal abuse but I am honestly far more fascinated by what's going on behind the book, not the book itself.

Thing is, there is practically no information on this book out there. I could find a few now-defunct secondhand listings and one from a Dutch library (also defunct, it appears they no longer own the book), but there's no publication date or year, no information on the author, nothing on the publisher, basically nothing out there that gives me any more information than the book itself does (which is little, it barely lists any information inside other than the main text).

I did find one mention on a Dutch war history site for a guy who was involved with WWII with the same name as the author, but I very much doubt they're the same guy. But again I have no real time frame to look for because this book has no publication date. There's also another guy named Tjebbo Franken (with an O) but again this is not my guy.

So yeah this is kind of a reverse lost media situation where I own the media itself (bought it on a secondhand book market with no context) but I do have a dozen questions about where it came from, who wrote it, what happened to the author, when it was written, when the events in the book itself happened, was it published in another country in another title first, why is the publisher so vague and does it have no information on it out there, are the experiences in the book those of the author himself or of another guy he interviewed? Questions, questions and more questions.

If I could hazard a guess I'd say the book was written in the late 1800s to mid-1900s (largely due to the absence of some modern technology) and the experiences written about are those of the author himself, who was presumably a Dutch guy living in Java (then part of the Dutch East Indies, fuck colonialism btw) who also visited other areas of the world. It's all still very vague but this is the closest guess I have based on the text of the book itself.

[itsjustaclint]

Clint talks about food n stuff: fast food? good fast food. or just fast food?

andoks here at my place is basically what fast food should be. food served quickly, is cheap and affordable, and lastly the quality is good enough for consumption. this entire meal is roughly: 193 pesos/ $3.3 comes with sponsored company drink which is pepsico which is mtn dew.

im not sure what jollibee is doing but.. this meal is entirely ₱310 pesos/$5.10 and i had to wait for this meal. it's a bit pricier. had a coupon for the free ice cream sundae tho just for context. this is just fried chicken and fries with a drink.

mang inasal is in the pricier than but it's actually filling side. ₱270 pesos/$4.6 for this platter comes with the unli rice thing also drink black gulaman which not in photo. i do love the free soup as well problem is you have to refill the bowls yourself and they're very hot. like McDonald's coffee scalding hot. which brings to the next fast food. this is the fiesta platter comes with grilled chicken, java rice, shrimp palabok, and lumpiang shanghai

McDonald's. i actually went crazy with the promos and the coupons here. ₱248/$4.27 for the entire thing got their chicken nugs with the promo chili sauce which i really liked ngl. been a while to eat chicken nugs without feeling as if eating leather.

Chowking tho makes me think something else. they do have some additionals i could get for my buck yet they're still in the Jollibee thing but portion sizes depend on location (or time or employee feeling) like eating here is like a Russian roulette whether you get everything you want or get less. ₱210/$3.6 for this entire meal. im still asking myself why thats still the case because the portion sizes and the amount of stuff you get on you is questionable

pizzados. kinda in the side of cheese pizza and meal. im not sure if i can recommend this the ₱310/$5.3 price for this entire meal is enticing. please eat it while it's hot. the pizzas they serve are just equal to eating cardboard or paper their chicken is harder than a hard tack and the only reason i even eat here is to make me think that it's better to eat at greenwich. which is the next.

greenwich bang for your buck pizzas? meal sets that are actually a bit expensive but worth the price? yeah that's it. ₱310/5.3 (because additional potato wedges it's actually ₱270/$4.6). i still feel sad whenever i remembered the had buko pandan shakes and crinkle fries which were my memorable stuff here. regardless of which it's still better fast food pizza

in conclusion...

eating fast food isnt even worth it. like holy shit the prices man. it's more than ₱100/$1.7 price ranges and you could get a lot of that food better somewhere else. im a bit of a glutton and ordering these amounts of food and getting charged that amount kinda sucks. mang inasal tho is S tier fast food. but regardless that's me talking about fast food.