phresnel

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May 30	comment	Stuck due to “knowing too much” Why do this rules justify a -1?
May 29	answered	Stuck due to “knowing too much”
Apr 13	comment	Writing an algorithm to traverse an “object” where A is equal to B, B is equal to C, and A is equal to C. @user16764: Nope. The only correct answer is: "The question as is does not make sense".
Mar 5	comment	Why is there still case sensitivity in some programming languages? @Vatine: Though, as a native german, I would think that many people here would have problems with "SZ", as it has come quite out of fashion. From my observations, you mostly hear older people referring to ß by "Ess-Zett", younger people usually say "Scharfes S" ("sharp S", "hard S"). Anyways, you are right, and this adds even more to the complexity of the exercise.
Jan 14	awarded	Yearling
Dec 16	comment	How do quick & dirty programmers know they got it right? +1: It is in the interfaces indeed.
Dec 16	comment	What do you feel are characteristics of a mature programmer? I would vote up with a small addition: "and they know when it is time to re-invent wheels or do some original research".
Dec 15	comment	What's the point of camel-case-navigation? `is not something a feature should be judged for in my opinion` -> You are right. It was more in another context (the one of the "whoa cools, how did he do it"), which you of course miss. I edited my question, thanks for the remark.
Dec 15	revised	What's the point of camel-case-navigation? deleted 101 characters in body
Dec 15	revised	What's the point of camel-case-navigation? added 45 characters in body
Dec 15	awarded	Student
Dec 15	asked	What's the point of camel-case-navigation?
Dec 15	comment	Why is there still case sensitivity in some programming languages? The right uppercase of ß is "SS". But as you guess, it is hard to revert. There exist many example of non-reversability, I think greek has some of them, but I am german without greek language skills, so I can't tell exactly.
Dec 15	comment	Do TODO comments make sense? I don't think a wikipedia that says "It is adviced" is any citable; smell alert. Better link to the article that claims this.
Nov 23	comment	Why do programmers write closed source applications and then make them free? @Bobby: Attribute Newton. He said that and it's one of my favourite quotes (en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Newton), it goes more precisely like this: `If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.`:)
Nov 23	comment	Why do programmers write closed source applications and then make them free? Came true in my case :)
Nov 23	comment	Why do programmers write closed source applications and then make them free? Superb. Exactly my vision of spare time coding (and I also do photographing from time to time).
Nov 23	comment	Why do programmers write closed source applications and then make them free? @Paul: Well, obviously those who develop FLOSS have food and are not in prison, too ... Less obvious, but most even have family; they just do not talk much about real life in FLOSS mode (why should they, they are here because of the hobby, not because of their other stuff)
Oct 2	comment	What are good techniques for keeping your place in code? One of the things I invented in my head years ago, just to find out it exists already :( +1
Oct 1	comment	Do you have any techniques to help you get started in the morning? @Xepoch: I think it is a valid answer to the OP. The question was "what does you get started", not "what do you recommend". Also, most people bragging about smokers are usually not living much better themselves; too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, not enough sports, not enough daylight etc. etc.. In germany we say "who's in the glasshouse should not throw with stones". Smoking is bad, but my bet is you do a lot of bad things to your body, too, just the publiclity for those problems is not as big as with smoking, right.