Corporate marketing (11 NetBeans mentions and none of Eclipse? Riiight), not that interesting, not new, not especially hacker-ish.

I'm a student,and I found it interesting so I submitted it. I wasn't trying to push any corporate agenda. For the record, I do prefer Eclipse over NetBeans... .

I didn't think it was that bad; most of it could have come from The Pragmatic Programmer. Certainly, nearly everyone mentioned netbeans, but it was usually in the context of a generic point such "learn to use your tools really well; for example in netbeans...".

Sun marketing materials always seem to go to painful lengths to avoid mentioning Eclipse so perhaps I'm overly sensitive to it.

Anecdata: I use Eclipse. Most professional Java devs I know use that or IntelliJ IDEA. NetBeans is nowhere.

I did think that a cut-n-paste of the earlier articles was insufficiently interesting for HN though.

"hacker-ish"

Now that is a hard to define word.

I think the best advice from that article came from Rick Cattell: Good Technology Is Only 10% of Success

"Don't use line numbers"

Excuse me? Line numbers?

"Don't put your entire application in one method."

Bu..but I can't call GOSUB anymore because you took away my LINE NUMBERS dude!

"Write lots of code"

This is solid advice, but when you're talking about Java the punchline writes itself :)