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I'm graduating with a Computer Science degree but I don't feel like I know how to program

education career-development

mar 2 '12 at 9:33 BЈовић 4,769

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My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report. How can I convince him that it's a bad idea?

teamwork bug-report

apr 5 at 15:51 Malachi 247

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

project-management agile development-process maintenance life-cycle

jun 15 at 4:32 dietbuddha 5,798

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Should UTF-16 be considered harmful?

unicode

dec 19 at 16:01 Jelle Geerts 1

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How do I create my own programming language and a compiler for it

programming-languages architecture api operating-systems

aug 23 at 22:25 Anthony 630

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Why can't the IT industry deliver large, faultless projects quickly as in other industries?

project-management development-process time-management industry

aug 2 at 12:16 Droogans 561

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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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My boss wants a narrated line-by-line English explanation of our code

documentation

mar 12 '12 at 12:03 gnat 12.4k

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How can I deal with a team member who dislikes making comments in code?

teamwork team comments

apr 29 at 17:56 Danny Tuppeny 141

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How can one manage thousands of IF…THEN…ELSE rules?

design design-patterns business-rules

sep 17 at 10:42 exDM69 101

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Why does automated testing keep failing in my company?

unit-testing tdd test-automation

mar 8 at 0:10 Community♦ 1

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Demonstrate bad code to client?

freelancing client-relations bad-code

feb 11 at 16:24 Dexter Legaspi 1

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How do you store “fuzzy dates” into a database?

database date-format

apr 14 at 16:50 Glenn Nelson 5,343

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Learn programming backwards, or “so I failed the FizzBuzz test. Now what?”

learning training learning-curve

jul 31 at 16:31 Abhijeet Kashnia 99

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Why do people use programming books?

learning books methodology

apr 6 '12 at 0:01 simon 171

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Worst coding standard you've ever had to follow? [closed]

coding-standards coding-style

jul 8 '11 at 17:47 TMN 7,169

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How would you know if you've written readable and easily maintainable code?

self-improvement programming-practices code-quality readability maintainability

jun 15 at 23:00 Erik Reppen 2,820

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How to estimate the length of a programming task

estimation planning

jan 24 '11 at 14:21

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Difference between a socket and a port

networking sockets networks

oct 30 at 12:33 gnat 12.4k

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How can I convince my boss that ANSI C is inadequate for our new project? [closed]

c# programming-languages c technology-choice

nov 29 at 5:14 jmoreno 3,988

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Why did Alan Kay say, “The internet was so well done, but the web was by amateurs”?

architecture history web internet

mar 25 at 18:21 mpw 45

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Dealing with awful estimates

architecture project-management estimation

feb 14 '11 at 17:15 Community♦ 1

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Is reinventing the wheel really all that bad?

reinventing-the-wheel

mar 21 at 9:30 Dimitri C. 984

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Why is it a good idea for “lower” application layers not to be aware of “higher” ones?

architecture mvc encapsulation layers

jun 6 at 14:32 Dunk 2,681

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How do you name your projects? [closed]

personal-projects naming

may 21 '12 at 15:20 Michał Šrajer 517

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Why would one bother marking up properly and semantically?

html html5 semantics markup

apr 4 at 0:29 Chris Moschini 162

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Correct definition of the term “Yak Shaving”

productivity definition

aug 24 at 23:08 Jeff Atwood♦ 5,512

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What's the right balance between code consistency and code improvement?

code-quality code-style

jun 1 at 1:50 SamtheBrand 166

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MIT vs. BSD vs. Dual License

open-source licensing mit-license bsd-license

may 15 '12 at 10:15 Community♦ 1

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Why does Javascript treat days and months differently?

javascript date-format

dec 13 at 15:57 Glenn Nelson 5,343

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