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Apr 25	comment	Why use try … finally without a catch clause? @ScottWhitlock There is no difference at all, in fact, so long as you understand exactly how it's defined to work. The `with` construct is simply defined to construct the `IDisposable` object before the entry to `try`. If that's not what you want, you're free to use the `try` construct directly in a different way, say, by constructing the `IDisposable` object inside the `try` (and checking for `null` in the `finally`).
Jan 18	awarded	Yearling
Aug 1	comment	Storing plaintext passwords for detecting fraud @James That's no longer a salt and no longer addresses any of the good security reasons for having a salt. Some people call that a "pepper" (e.g., github.com/plataformatec/devise).
Jun 28	answered	Merge sort versus quick sort performance
Jun 16	comment	What is the benefit of writing to a temp location, And then copying it to the intended destination? If the temp directory is on a separate partition, you lose the atomicity.
Apr 28	comment	Is use of finally clause for doing work after return bad style/dangerous? The normal control flow speed is not significantly affected by the exception-handling constructs. The performance penalty is only paid when actually throwing and catching exceptions, not when entering a try block or entering a finally block in normal operation.
Feb 15	awarded	Nice Answer
Feb 2	comment	Is it better idea to call an external command-line application or to internalize that application's logic? Solving problems is great. Solving some problems while opening the door to other problems is not so great.
Jan 23	comment	Why use try … finally without a catch clause? Various languages have extremely useful language-specific enhancements to the `try/finally` construct. C# has `using`, Python has `with`, etc.
Jan 23	answered	Why use try … finally without a catch clause?
Jan 18	awarded	Yearling
Jan 7	comment	Why not use the word bug instead of exception? +1 for defining your terms. In general, people should do that more often!
Jan 7	comment	cost trade-offs for deploying changes to prod, stored procs vs. LINQ The optimal solution is to forbid, on pain of termination, two applications sharing one database. Applications may share data only via public, exposed, documented APIs.
Dec 30	awarded	Nice Answer
Dec 25	answered	Why does everybody write to-do comments in capital letters?
Nov 27	comment	Software license restricting commercial usage like CC BY-NC-SA Why do you want to forbid commercial use? And why are you asking that question on a commercial website which uses a whole lot of third-party free or open-source software ... for commercial use?
Nov 27	answered	What web oriented language would work best with binary data?
Nov 15	comment	What are the benefits of archiving? Why is it wrong?
Nov 12	answered	What are some best practices for cookie based web authentication?
Nov 10	comment	Is cloud computing just a way of renting resources? When an org is its own provider, the provider wing of the org incurs capital expenditures to build the cloud service. However, usage of the cloud service requires no capital expenditure. Orgs often do internal billing, where if division A wants services from division B, division A pays division B for it internally. The phrase "billed like a utility" applies to these orgs. Orgs which provide free cloud services to user divisions do not bill, so that item applies but is overridden by "services which are free").