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| bio | website | annalear.ca |
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| location | New York, NY | |
| age | 29 | |
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Community manager at Stack Exchange since January 2012. Email me and tell me something interesting: anna@stackexchange.com.
Software developer and former elected moderator on Stack Overflow and Programmers Stack Exchange. Likes cats, computers, and video games... pretty much in that order.
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Apr 30 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Apr 10 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Apr 4 |
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How to create a Web app that “interacts” with email? edited tags |
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Mar 21 |
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Why is cleverness considered harmful in programming by some people? @WarrenP Yeah, there's a good amount of subjectivity here. I've had the "we can't use language feature X because then other developers will have to learn about language feature X" conversation and it's not fun. The horrifyingly bad "clever" solutions are more in the "you know it when you see it" area. DailyWTF has a good library of those by now. :) |
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Mar 20 |
revised |
Checking if my app is using any undocumented parts of the API deleted 85 characters in body; edited title |
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Mar 12 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Brittle unit tests due to need for excessive mocking |
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Feb 25 |
awarded | Constituent |
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Feb 18 |
awarded | Caucus |
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Feb 8 |
awarded | Informed |
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Feb 8 |
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Criticizing your former employer in an interview I would turn that around into what you value. Instead of "this code is TERRIBLE. 664 lines! what idiot wrote that?" say something like "I focus on writing simple code and small functions that are easy to maintain and understand." |
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Jan 7 |
reviewed | Reject suggested edit on How can I create a facebook style message system in Rails 3? |
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Dec 21 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Dec 18 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Decrementing/Incrementing loop variable inside for loop. Is this code smell? |
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Nov 30 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Is it best to try to work at a company where your software directly makes the company money? |
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Nov 27 |
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How do you unit test private methods? Can you elaborate on that? |
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Nov 27 |
awarded | Guru |
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Nov 17 |
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Why is cleverness considered harmful in programming by some people? @Nate Not conflating so much as making a deliberate argument that the bad kind of "clever" typically leads to unnecessary complexity and/or confusion. (Since the question was framed from the "why is it harmful" standpoint.) |
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Nov 14 |
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Bluetooth push application @MichaelT Yes, it does have to be set up at first. |
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Nov 14 |
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Bluetooth push application Pretty sure you always have to pair, but pairing can be automatic when the device is within range (my phone pairs to my car automatically, for example). |
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Nov 14 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Bluetooth push application |
