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| bio | website | stackoverflow.com/users/… |
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| location | Chicago, IL | |
| age | 38 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 4 months |
| seen | May 17 at 0:44 | |
| stats | profile views | 134 |
Professional application developer for a large telecommunications company. I work on the software that manages their IT infrastructure (networks, computers, operating systems, etc). Most of my work is in Unix/Linux environments (Sun, HPUX and RHEL).
All opinions stated are my own and not that of my employer.
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." ~ Confucius
"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." - Edward V. Berard
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May 7 |
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Do Java, J2EE and Java Web get better with time? It still looks problematic to me after months This reads like a j2ee rant to me, heh. I guess, no, it doesn't get better because a lot of the things you mention I still have problems with today (and I have been working with this for a few years now). The jar file issue will probably never go away, but really that is a problem for anything that uses a 3rd party library. I didn't vote you down, but I did vote to close as not constructive (as I think a lot of the answers will just be opinion). |
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May 5 |
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Let go yet again from another job, should I give up on programming? youtube.com/watch?v=c1EyN9xTK94 Just substitute "sale" with "program". You probably just need to relax and practice more. |
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Apr 30 |
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Passing member variable as a method parameter added 19 characters in body |
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Apr 27 |
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Combining source files, like header files You have to think about how it may impact your build. If it's a complex project you could be forcing the build of sections that haven't changed. That extra build time can add up. I worked on a project with 5 million lines of code and it took a long time to build. We didn't want to build sections that didn't change. |
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Apr 24 |
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Find a “hole” in a list of numbers Did you get this answer from pg 5, section 1.4 of "Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley? cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/sec014.html |
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Apr 13 |
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Is it just me or is this a baffling tech interview question? Is this correct? You have A=B, B=C & A=C in your question, that would make A=C & B=C. That is not circular, as C never points to anything. |
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Apr 4 |
answered | Why is CS never a topic of conversation of the layman? |
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Mar 30 |
awarded | Disciplined |
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Mar 30 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Mar 30 |
accepted | Pitfalls in the Grails Framework |
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Mar 30 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Mar 28 |
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What certification to get following OCP Java Programmer? Fixed my "link only" answer because I didn't realize it was considerd a bad answer to only post SO links |
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Mar 28 |
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What Are Some Advantages/Disadvantages of Using C over Assembly? Added details from the links instead of just the links. |
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Mar 28 |
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Why do “Joke” programming languages exist? I had a class in compiler construction a long time ago and we had to design and implement our own language. It was great fun. I think these are more about fun and learning, but that is JMHO. Oh, and LOLCODE is hilarious. I can't imagine trying to implement a language for joke purposes, heh. |
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Mar 26 |
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What is the simplest human readable configuration file format? I thought simplest in the context of his question: "get XML type of behavior and avoid XML as long as possible". I'm not sure of anything simpler, while meeting this requirement. |
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Mar 26 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on C is written in C, how is this possible? |
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Mar 26 |
answered | What is the simplest human readable configuration file format? |
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Mar 24 |
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Mulitple processes aware of each other "How can I make the processes aware of each other, so if process 3 goes down then processes 2 & 3 start working on process_flag=3?" Do you mean 1 & 2 start working on 3 (because process 3 is dead)? |
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Mar 23 |
answered | Do you think we will ever settle on a “standard” platform? |
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Mar 23 |
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What is Python 20th and final guideline "Explicit is better than implicit." So in this case... I guess not. |
