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My potential customer has a very bad written English. Is that a red flag? [closed]
I am trying to start a freelancing career on oDesk. One of the potential employers offered me somewhat of a dream job: it's game development for an established company. The pay seems to be right ...
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What is the “Find-Fix-Verify” pattern?
What is the "Find-Fix-Verify" pattern, as related to the process of doing editing/spellchecking/debugging, etc.?
Where is this pattern best described?
What are some advantages and disadvantages of ...
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how to find out if spelling mistakes in source code are a serious issue or not?
I find very troubling amount of spelling mistakes I see everyday in our codebase, from which I will reproduce a very short but representative example:
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What's a good way to store/load a word list with thousands of entries?
I'm working on a project that requires a simple dictionary for checking spelling; it will be large, but will lack definitions. The solution we're currently working on has the base word list in a text ...
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Should APIs be in en_US or en_GB or both?
Should I write APIs in US spelling or British spelling? Or should I provide with mapping both of them to a single one and internally using anyone which I like so that both of them works ? At present ...