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May 7 |
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In Visual Studio 2010, which is better to use: VS Installer or the InstallShield LE? Another reason to try InstallShield LE: VS 2012 no longer supports VS installer projects. |
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Apr 25 |
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Is the algorithm more important than the programming language? What is more, it just isn't better in that case. |
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Apr 25 |
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Is the algorithm more important than the programming language? What you're writing only scrapes the surface. You are assuming a notion of 'better' that not everyone shares. Quality is always a matter of suitability to one's goals. Programming in C++ isn't always a good fit for every goal. |
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Feb 28 |
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How many lines of code can a C# developer produce per month? E.g. the code can be run through a formatter before counting. |
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Feb 28 |
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How many lines of code can a C# developer produce per month? Code duplication can be detected with tools, but still ... |
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Feb 5 |
answered | How can I deal with a team member who dislikes making comments in code? |
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Jan 24 |
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Is there a correlation between code complexity and developer productivity? Not really. the complexity of the task performed by the software must be distinguished from the added complexity caused by the implementation chosen. |
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Oct 24 |
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“Never do in code what you can get the SQL server to do well for you” - Is this a recipe for a bad design? This question is two in one - I think it should be split. 1) How much should be done in SQL? 2) How much should be done in the DBMS? Stored procedures fall in the middle. I've seen entire applications coded in stored procedures. |
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Oct 24 |
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Why didn't “cloud computing” offer appear earlier? @Warren P: That is not the definition of cloud computing to me. It's cloud computing only when the remote computing resources are virtual and their mapping to physical resources may change without the user noticing. If this characteristic isn't included, it just becomes a new name for time sharing, as Jimmy Hoffa stated. |
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Oct 24 |
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Why didn't “cloud computing” offer appear earlier? @Jimmy Hoffa: Sure, but it isn't implied by the concept of timesharing. |
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Oct 23 |
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Why didn't “cloud computing” offer appear earlier? @Jimmy Hoffa: I didn't claim that the cloud is new, I claim that the concept is different from the concept of timesharing. |
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Oct 23 |
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Why didn't “cloud computing” offer appear earlier? This is not entirely accurate - what is different about the cloud is that as a user you no longer know or care where your time sharing machines are; hence the name. |
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Oct 5 |
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Is it a bad practice to store large files (10 MB) in a database? I don't see any vagueness in the question as it is now. I have no idea why it was closed. |
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Jun 11 |
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Visual programming for serious software Textual programming languages use lots of compact syntactic constructs. For the most part they are essentially 1D languages that lean on our natural language processing capabilities and our years of training in reading and writing. 2D languages can't build on this prior knowledge, so it's much harder for them to develop a compact, highly expressive syntax without becoming hard to learn. |
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May 30 |
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Is it a bad practice to store large files (10 MB) in a database? @briddums: Yes, once you need DO TRANSACTION you have that problem ... but that statement only does anything meaningful for your database operations. For transactional filesystem operations, you e.g. have to implement rollback. See also Thomas's answer. |
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May 30 |
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Is it a bad practice to store large files (10 MB) in a database? When will programmers learn that performance isn't all that matters? |
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May 30 |
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Is it a bad practice to store large files (10 MB) in a database? @briddums: The main problem with your argument is that you move the responsibility for maintaining ACIDity into your application oode. With a single-concurrent-user, single-application database it may be an acceptable workaround, but it makes database people cringe. |
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May 25 |
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Definition of “state” I think this is the best answer, if rephrased to be intelligible to a nonprogrammer. Say: all activities handle things and/or information. This happens in three ways: 1) any activity may take or use or read something: its input; 2) it may produce or write something: its output; 3) while in progress it may hold, keep, memorize, store something: its state. For most computer programs, all input, output and state consists of information, while for other types of activities (say, cooking) physical objects are usually involved as well. |
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May 25 |
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Synchronously write file Have a look at, say, logging in Apache. |
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May 25 |
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Can a C# developer turned VB developer ever return to C# later in their career without a significant penalty? Ahem. In case you haven't noticed, much of the improvements have gone the other way: VB.NET features and VB.NET IDE features having been carried over to C#. |
