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What is the best way to evaluate new programmers?
What is the best way to evaluate the best candidates to get a new job (talking merely in terms of programming skills)? In my company we have had a lot of bad experiences with people who have good ...
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Do you keep your ideas secret? and why?
I believe any programmer has several ideas that she/he considers as innovative or at least valuable. It may be an idea of a new product which will make this world better or a new development approach, ...
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The best method to get personal projects done
I have numerous personal projects I've begun and never seem to finish because I get sidetracked with other ideas. I was wondering what the best method to get personal projects done is? Any tricks or ...
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How to teach a script to detect sarcasm? [closed]
I'm currently building a fun script, that basically matches given phrases and gives a predefined response based on the match-points. You can ask it to retrieve some information based on live feeds, ...
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Could a singleton type replace static methods and classes? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the difference between all-static-methods and applying a singleton pattern?
In C# Static methods has long served a purpose allowing us to call them without ...
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Who Owns an Idea on the Web?
Let us say that person "A" mentioned an idea for a software project on the web (ie. in a forum). Person "B" sees this idea and implements it. Can person "A" claim ownership of the idea? Has person "B" ...
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How to handle Real Time Data from a database perspective?
I have an idea in mind, but it still confuses me the database area.
Imagine that I want to show real time data, and using one of the latest browser technologies (web sockets - even using older ...
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Projects IDEAL for learning Haskell [closed]
I am learning Haskell atm, but really want a small to medium sized project I can sink my teeth into. Previously I've done cloth simulations, emulators, ray tracers etc when learning new languages. ...
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What efforts you make to stay on the edge of perfect productivity?
May be it is only me, but sometimes I think I spend to refactoring and working with abstractions too much time.
My project usually begins with studying some new technology, like MVP, .NET, MVC, WPF ...
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How would you go about looking for collaborators?
I seem to have a never ending stream of more-or-less original, more-or-less cool ideas for software/apps/stuff yet to be written on my mind. Sometimes, I decide to just start implementing my idea. ...
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Is it smart to give idea to company?
I have a few interesting ideas (business ideas) that can be implemented as add-on features of existing business products (web-based products, mostly startups). Based on experience, can anyone let me ...
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How Can I Make My Programming Class More Interesting?
I already found a similar question here on SO, but almost all of the answers were more philosophical, rather than practical.
I'd like some PRACTICAL ideas about how to make my programming course more ...
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Mutating Programming Language?
For fun I was thinking about how a programming paradigm could differ from OOP and came up with this concept. I don't have a strong foundation in computer science so it might be common place without me ...
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Community to discuss project ideas [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
A project idea for project ideas?
I think this has happened to many of us. Sometimes we find a great idea for a project and obviously think this is the greatest idea ...
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How do I get people to contribute ideas for my .NET library?
I maintain a LGPL library for rapid development of large scale .NET applications, It's a general purpose class library containing functionalities that are used at the DAL and BLL level.
So, in ...
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What significant advances lost on side tracks should be revived in the main stream of software?
In reading Alan Kay's question on Significant new inventions I was coming up with answers that were not new ideas but old ones that have been passed by in the main stream. So, what significant lost ...
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Any ideas on a new input modality?
Don't get me wrong. I love typing. I'm good at it, and the harmonious clicking of my Das Keyboard brings me pure joy. But for some reason, I just fingertips all over my monitor and started swirling ...
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My most cherished dream project seems to resemble a product that already exists. What shall I do? [closed]
I guess this is more of a "comfort seeking" question than legality one.
You see, for the past couple of months I have been brainstorming and developing a product, all by myself. I was planning to ...
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“Imprinting” as a language feature?
Idea
I had this idea for a language feature that I think would be useful, does anyone know of a language that implements something like this?
The idea is that besides inheritance a class can also ...
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Best practices for App Idea ownership and shares
I am developing apps on my sparetime. I am the sole developer, and two non-programmer friends of mine provide vision, content, algorithms and ideas. We always agree happily on all the features, todos ...
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Programming without target platform? [closed]
I have a idea for a program and have began laying out the software design concept in a traditional SDLC model of charts and instructions for what I want all parts to achieve.
A quick explanation of ...
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A project idea for project ideas?
First take a look at this question which I asked a few months ago. I still can't find a place where programmers and computer specialists can discuss their projects and ideas. I found OpenHatch.com. ...
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How to approach the creation of a “Unit Outline” generator?
I am the Studies Coordinator at a College and we currently have somewhere in the order of 100-200 unit outlines that are created at the beginning of each semester. Those outlines need to have ...
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Need help with deciding elements for icon creating application
I'm trying to practice programing by creating a simple application which, I think, I can manage to do in .Net C# in VisualStudio 2010.
I'm working on simple application which will let me to create ...
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Sharing Idea Site for Programmers
Is there any website where programmers could share their thoughts about their profession and all the stuff related to it? If there is none, would you be open to use something like it?
Edit: I think i ...
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How does VoiceDrop work?
I'm interested in building some functionality similar in nature to that provided by VoiceDrop (http://www.voicedrop.ws/).
I'm thinking about using Twilio, offers some very powerful telephony ...
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Add text to graphic: Looking for inspiration [closed]
I have to redesign a report (web-based) that basically adds text on top of a map. It relies on some parts which are no longer supported by 64bit systems and is too unreliable and complex to just ...
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Software that helps rebuild someone's life? [closed]
The recent devastation in Japan has been extremely distressing. I am wondering as a developer what kinds of free software we could come up with that would help in situations like this. Google's people ...
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How to give life to my idea which belong to my company?
I wonder, what options do I have in the following situation. In the course of the several projects I realised the need in some auxilary software product (related to testing of the main products). I ...
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1answer
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How can I find ideas for small projects? [closed]
I'd like to start a small software project to do on my own in my spare time, but I don't know what to do.
How can I find ideas? When I ask most people, their ideas are way too big in scope.
Thanks.
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1answer
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Software suggestion to learn algorithms [closed]
I am interested in learning about algorithms.
I have taken algorithms course, but didn't feel I really learned as much as I would have loved to. I am looking for some interesting software which I can ...
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Project suggestions for a beginner [closed]
I'm a rather beginner in Python and looking for project ideas. I don't want to reinvent the wheel and I just can't think of any ideas for a project which hasn't been implemented before. Also I want to ...
