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What is the politically correct way of refactoring other's code?

nov 13 at 17:26 haylem 15.7k

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What triggered the popularity of lambda functions in modern mainstream programming languages?

programming-languages history lambda

feb 11 at 13:35 vartec 15.5k

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Why don't research papers that mention custom software release the source code?

research

dec 19 at 15:08 math 101

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How do operating systems… run… without having an OS to run in?

kernel operating-systems

nov 7 at 22:49 ObsessiveSSOℲ 291

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Can you use Pi as a crude random number generator?

algorithms language-agnostic math random-numbers

jan 2 at 16:48 MichaelT 8,164

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How should I create a mutable, varied jtree with arbitrary/generic category nodes?

planning trees extensibility

sep 18 at 15:05 GlenPeterson 5,114

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Why is Clean Code suggesting avoiding protected variables?

code-quality variables clean-code

oct 26 at 16:36 SamtheBrand 158

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Is defining a variable to name a method argument a good practice?

coding-style

aug 27 at 20:32 orip 222

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I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now?

project-management agile development-process maintenance life-cycle

apr 22 at 19:34 Kazark 496

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Why is quicksort better than other sorting algorithms in practice?

algorithms performance

jun 1 '12 at 8:42 Raphael 301

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Stuck due to “knowing too much”

career-development self-improvement job-definition

may 31 '12 at 18:30 Shog9♦ 7,017

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Working on someone else's code

architecture coding-style coding-standards coding maintenance

mar 15 at 20:54 PremiumTier 65

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Should we avoid object creation in Java?

java object-oriented programming-practices

may 26 '12 at 5:00 an5607ky 101

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Who created the idea(s) of the first loop constructs?

history loops

jul 10 at 6:58 Yannis Rizos♦ 22.8k

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Why is putting something on the stack called “push”?

terminology stack push

may 16 '12 at 17:26 Bratch 121

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When should you use a document vs relational vs graph database?

database database-design relational-database document-databases graph-databases

may 11 '12 at 2:05 Old Pro 442

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What software programming languages were used by the Soviet Union's space program?

programming-languages history space-technology

aug 7 at 2:10 Yannis Rizos♦ 22.8k

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Techniques for getting off the ground in any language

learning self-improvement language-agnostic

nov 30 at 11:20 Sebastian Negraszus 251

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Why was Tanenbaum wrong in the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debates?

operating-systems kernel

dec 19 at 1:11 david 171

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If you had two projects with the same specification and only one was developed using TDD how could you tell?

java interview testing tdd

mar 28 '12 at 20:53 RalphChapin 1,973

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Is it a waste of time to free resources before I exit a process?

operating-systems study

apr 21 '12 at 12:30 Giorgio 6,893

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Is unit testing or test-driven development worthwhile?

unit-testing scrum tdd

mar 21 '12 at 21:17 user16764 3,043

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How to check or assess debugging skills of a person?

interview skills debugging

mar 1 '12 at 22:38 HLGEM 21.5k

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Are utility classes with nothing but static members an anti-pattern in C++?

c++ design-patterns anti-patterns

feb 16 '12 at 18:51 Martin James 21

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What is the value in hiding the details through abstractions? Isn't there value in transparency?

object-oriented-design abstraction

aug 28 at 19:37 KeithS 8,695

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What's the benefit of avoiding the use of a debugger?

debug

feb 3 '12 at 3:55 Jarrod Nettles 4,874

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Should I intentionally break the build when a bug is found in production?

unit-testing tdd builds

mar 10 '12 at 5:52 thegreendroid 206

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Simulating/developing_a_testing_strategy for factors that might cause the same algorithm to produce different results in Distributed Systems

algorithms

jan 10 '12 at 20:21 David Thornley 17.4k

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Were the first assemblers written in machine code?

assembly low-level

aug 29 at 6:04 Stephen C 14k

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What is MVC, really?

design-patterns mvc definition

jan 10 at 8:01 nurettin 99

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