User Dave - Programmers Stack Exchange

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What are the worst false economies in software development?

feb 16 '12 at 18:58 jk. 6,084

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What popular “best practices” are not always best, and why?

untagged

jul 1 '11 at 0:26 Casey 312

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Which things instantly ring alarm bells when looking at code?

code-quality anti-patterns

nov 15 at 11:39 Martijn Pieters 4,248

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What should every programmer know about programming?

experience self-improvement programming-practices

jan 17 '11 at 10:15 l0b0 3,171

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What can I do with programming?

java python html unix programming-languages

jun 19 '11 at 9:03 Community♦ 1

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Most underestimated programming tool

tools developer-tools

apr 15 at 5:36 gnat 12.3k

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How to earn team members respect as team lead

new-job team-leader

dec 30 '10 at 12:49 Abhi 21

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What are some things you have read that inspired and guided you as a programmer?

learning self-improvement books inspiration

jun 9 '12 at 18:05 FelipeAls 101

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How important is blogging/tutorial generation to career development?

career-development blogs

nov 5 at 13:29 Yannis Rizos♦ 22.8k

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How do I constructively and professionally deal with anger when I'm on the job?

apr 4 '12 at 20:49 epotter 2,142

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What syntax element do you love most in a programming language you use frequently?

programming-languages syntax

jan 9 '11 at 19:18 dan_waterworth 4,807

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Ideal programming language learning sequence?

programming-languages recommendations

sep 19 at 16:00 Badar 175

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Identifying programming languages by a piece of code

programming-languages

jul 10 at 13:01 Lie Ryan 2,895

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What should be the maximum length of function

programming-practices coding-standards

apr 27 '12 at 11:32 CodeWorks 1,577

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What are the common revenue models for free-software companies?

free-software revenue

jan 1 '11 at 18:48 Oded♦ 29.5k

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C# or .Net features to cut off assuming no backward compatibility needed?

c# .net features backward-compatibility

oct 27 '11 at 20:20 Jordão 456

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Would you see any use of a Trilean (True, False, ??)

syntax

dec 17 '11 at 6:08 Matthieu 4,102

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What are the 'must know' Emacs commands?

emacs

nov 25 '10 at 1:51 Community♦ 1

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What do you use string reversal for?

programming-languages software-developer language-agnostic

dec 9 '10 at 19:58 Matthieu M. 3,941

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When is it better to offload work to the RDBMS rather than to do it in code?

php mysql

dec 19 '11 at 1:31 JeffO 26k

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Are iframes a design smell?

web-development design code-smell

may 20 '11 at 3:16 dukeofgaming 8,533

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Are there deals (free or low cost) to license Visual Studio for open-source developers?

licensing visual-studio-2010 visual-studio

jun 9 '11 at 18:54 Cheeso 261

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How to start a Software Company

freelancing startup product

mar 12 '11 at 23:17 Vitor Braga 3,885

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Is it fair to use shortened url to mention and give links of live projects in my resume?

resume

mar 7 '12 at 18:02 Yannis Rizos♦ 22.8k

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What useful bookmarks to programmers do you use?

web-tools

dec 5 '10 at 1:01 muntoo 400

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Senior developer role to architect role

architecture career-development

dec 7 '11 at 21:00 Anna Lear♦ 23.3k

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Software that helps rebuild someone's life?

software ideas

mar 16 '11 at 12:23 Berin Loritsch 17.3k

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