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Be a better programmer or an irreplacable employee? [duplicate]
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Should a programmer be indispensable?
Before I worked for a web development company, I asked a lot of questions of friends who were working as developers for tips about ...
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Etiquette when asking questions in an IRC channel
Many larger OSS projects maintain IRC channels to discuss their usage or development. When I get stuck on using a project, having tried and failed to find information on the web, one of the ways I try ...
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Forking project on Github process
There is a project on Github that I mostly like and want to use. There are a few things I want to do differently/remove that doesn't make sense for what I want/need. Also I want to add a few things as ...
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Bug Tracking Etiquette - Necromancy or Duplicate?
I came across a really old (2+ years) feature request issue in a bug tracker for an open source project that was marked as "resolved (won't fix)" due to the lack of tools required to make the ...
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What rules of etiquette should be followed at software conferences? [closed]
Whether as an attendee, a speaker, or a vendor I wanted to know what the unspoken rules of etiquette are at software conferences. Other than the blindingly obvious ones (like don't assault the winner ...
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What to do if a co-worker is editing your code just to change the appearance?
What should you do, if a co-worker is editing your code?
Without the purpose of adding functionality or fixing bugs, just to change how it looks...
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What is the etiquette in negotiating payment for a software development job?
The reason I'm taking a general business question and localize it to software development is that I'm curious as to whether there are certain trends/etiquette/nuances that are typical to our industry. ...
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Open Source Etiquette
I've started working on my first open source project on Codeplex and came across some terrible code. (I did learn that C# still has the "goto" statement) I started adding features that the "owner" ...
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Whose responsibility is a bug fix patch?
A situation that has arisen several times in open source projects goes like this:
I notice a bug in our deployment, and figure out a quick hack patch. (For example, simply commenting out code that ...
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What is proper etiquette for releasing a complete rewrite of an existing project?
I'm new to the opensource world. The project I'm working on resides on Github. (Just for reference) The project I'm working on is a plug-in for the Plex Media Server. I plan to submit my plug-in to ...
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Does professionalism in job postings matter?
I came across this job posting: http://www.justin.tv/jobs/jobs. The page contains some bad language ("No bulls--t"). I personally find this vaguely offensive, and it would certainly put me off ...
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What is proper etiquette and recommended GitHub workflow for simultaneously contributing to and diverging from upstream repo?
I'm new to GitHub and VCS in general. I've been programming in various languages for years, but I've always worked solo on custom projects (no public releases). I recently started using a jQuery UI ...
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What is the etiquette of renaming an open source fork?
I want to fork on Github the TestNG java testing framework (Apache 2 license) so I can add/change some minor things to suit my needs.
It's unlikely that all of my changes would be approved in the ...
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Is it impolite to file bug reports against abandoned open-source projects?
Is it considered impolite to file a bug report against an abandoned open-source project, or an abandoned branch of a still-continuing project?
Is it perceived as making a request of the former ...
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How long should you wait before interviewing at the same company a second time? [closed]
Suppose you've had a recruiter contact you about a position at a medium-large to large company, and went for an interview and such, and seriously considered the position but ultimately you decided ...
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Pulling in changes from a forked repo without a request on GitHub?
I'm new to the social coding community and don't know how to proceed properly in this situation:
I've created a GitHub Repository a couple weeks ago. Someone forked the project and has made some ...
