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Is it worth to try write foolproof data structures?
The problem
We need to store data in a table-like way, but we have very strict space constraints (~1Mb per table of 10k+ rows). We store data like this:
ID | reviews | factor | score | interval | ...
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Defensive Programming vs Exception Handling?
I'm working through the book "Head First Python" (it's my language to learn this year) and I got to a section where they argue about two code techniques: Defensive coding vs Exception handling. Here ...
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Differences between Design by Contract and Defensive Programming
Could Designing by Contract (DbC) be a way to program defensively?
Is one way of programming better in some cases than the other?
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Do I need to deal with the situation where private methods are called through reflection?
When creating a library, must I ensure that the private methods must work as expected when called not by other methods of the same class, but by another library through reflection?
For example, if a ...
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How defensive should we be?
We've been running Pex over some code, and it has been showing some good things (well bad things, but showing them before it gets to production!).
However, one of the nice things about Pex is that it ...
