bump version up to 1.0.1-SNAPSHOT
remove useless check that only really tests JVM startup time
bump Gradle wrapper up to 1.12, use create() instead of deprecated add()
update copyrights
clean up some workarounds for testCompile dependencies
apply idea plugin to all the things
add ability to specify a starting sequence id to further mitigate cases where machines sharing the same machine id might generate the same id's