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

apr 22 at 19:34 Kazark 496

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I'm doing 90% maintenance and 10% development, is this normal?

maintenance

aug 27 at 18:13 World Engineer♦ 14.8k

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Will high reputation in Stack Overflow help to get a good job?

career-development

sep 22 '11 at 5:24 Anna Lear♦ 23.4k

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What are the worst false economies in software development?

pricing efficiency economics inefficiency

feb 16 '12 at 18:58 jk. 6,349

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why do some job posts say “high pressure environment”?

jobs

aug 3 at 14:59 User 564

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Is musical notation Turing-Complete?

turing-completeness

jun 3 '12 at 7:27 K.Steff 2,761

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New to TDD. Should I avoid private methods now?

object-oriented testing tdd

mar 8 '12 at 17:55 Mark Booth 8,331

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Unwritten rules of rewriting another team member's code

programming-practices code-ownership

jan 7 at 10:40 user1648645 11

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Is programming tourism a realistic possibility?

experience job-market

jan 12 '12 at 13:46 Mark Booth 8,331

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How to react to wrong/not answered questions during interview?

interview internship

feb 6 '12 at 15:02 Gangnus 498

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How much effort should you put into a junior developer?

internship

jan 21 '12 at 13:09 S.Robins 8,312

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What you should do if your junior did not adopt your suggestion?

management teamwork team-leader

jan 20 '12 at 0:53 snowpolar 149

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I'm a contract developer and I think I'm about to get screwed

legal

jun 1 '12 at 16:27 Jordan 1,558

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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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Would working for an “adult website” hurt my future employability?

career-development employers

feb 29 '12 at 1:09 haylem 15.7k

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Why is it so difficult to get a programming job?

job-market employment job-hunting

feb 6 '12 at 3:58 Casey Patton 2,783

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Empirical Evidence of Popularity of Git and Mercurial

git mercurial

jun 26 '12 at 20:42 Hugo 2,134

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Rate your programming language expertise by language concepts

programming-languages interview

jul 20 at 0:03 platzhirsch 228

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Is MUMPS alive?

programming-languages history

jun 5 '12 at 5:12 Rena 101

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How can I communicate the risks of altering vendor software?

communication employee-relations

feb 10 '12 at 17:01 Karl Bielefeldt 40.2k

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When accessing/manipulating complex data, is it better to store it in many small pieces or one large chunk?

database-design

apr 25 '12 at 21:11 Gabe Willard 216

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Mentoring Millennials

internship students mentor

mar 2 '12 at 19:13 haylem 15.7k

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Version Control with SQL Server

version-control svn sql-server

jan 10 '12 at 9:01 Dean Harding 15k

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What type of interview questions should you ask for “legacy” programmers?

interview job-market recommendations legacy job-searching

jan 11 '12 at 23:08 gkrogers 715

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Anyone know of any parallelizing compilers following the approach of the Dragon Book?

compilers parallelism implicit-parallelism

feb 9 '12 at 0:10 umlcat 1,438

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SCRUM from scratch, with no base framework established?

scrum user-story sprint

mar 9 '12 at 14:42 Thomas Owens♦ 33.9k

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A decent git branching model for products that should accompany the version of another, third-party product (and pros and cons of one proposal)

version-control git branching

feb 8 '12 at 6:20 Ivo Limmen 259

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Transforming theoretical knowledge into practical knowledge

self-improvement career-development

feb 21 '12 at 17:28 jmq 4,125

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Continuous Build server (cc.net, hudson, bamboo, etc…) remote build experience?

continuous-integration builds

jan 20 '12 at 19:19 Tangurena 11.2k

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How should repetitive calendar tasks be stored in the database?

database-design

jan 21 '12 at 1:06 Vincent Zoonekynd 101

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