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    Arrays.sort giving weird output.

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  • Dylan Cascio
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    Why does `"Apple".compareTo("apple");` return -32 and not 1, 0 or -1?

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    How do I compare by multiple things, such as length first and then the normal lexical string compare?

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    How do you know when to add parentheses to the end of certain methods?

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  • Lukasz Walczak
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    Everything in Java is passed by value, is it not? :)

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