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May 19	comment	What legal considerations do I need to have when programming? If you reasked this question in the more narrow context of 'considerations for FERPA/SarbOx/Dodd-Frank compliance', I'd like to see it stay open and get quality answers.
May 19	comment	What makes OOP “good”? 'Good' in which context? It's great in a wide variety of contexts, and bad in some specific contexts, where e.g. Domain-Specific Languages are better. @Dokkat: solving the problem is only 15% of software. Doing that in a way that is legible, maintainable, debuggable, extensible, portable to future coders is a bigger (more expensive) issue. That's why OO has value. Sure, you could code it in PL/1 instead. That would be inferior for all these reasons.
Mar 3	comment	How to write a very basic compiler @marco-fiset, on the contrary, I think it's an outstanding answer that does tell the OP how to do a very basic compiler, while pointing out the traps to avoid and defining more advanced phases.
Jan 21	comment	How do you tackle really bizarre errors that keep you puzzled for more than 10 hours? Actually, no. Thinking too hard along the same tracks is just about the worst possible thing you can do. 'Challenge, enumerate, revisit and test each of your assumptions, in a systematic way' is the solution here; people are discussing different tactics of achieving that.
Jan 21	comment	Proving Yourself Cover letters (unless you mean emails?) are very old-school, I suspect used by <<5%. I know many excellent programmers your criteria would have excluded. The communication stuff you can determine from a quick phonescreen. I agree with the rest of your comments.
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Jan 21	comment	How much effort should you put into a junior developer? Right. If the OP does not have a task suitable for an intern, and if the intern assigned is not interested or capable of doing it, this arrangement does not make sense.
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Aug 29	comment	How to find out if a company has insane policies With Glassdoor, consider the site, department and date the review was written about to gauge whether it is relevant or accurate; also organizational changes since then.
Aug 29	comment	How do I not undersell myself when looking for a job, while remaining honest? All fine except for the dating analogy - just say it's a numbers game and perception is everything.
Aug 29	comment	When deciding on whether or not to work for a new company, what are your dealbreakers? @Bevan: it depends entirely on the context. If as part of a well-managed setup, then no problem. But if it's dumping some nightmare crufty port on the new guy, when the last five people who drew this straw have left, it obviously means something else.
Aug 29	comment	When deciding on whether or not to work for a new company, what are your dealbreakers? @configurator: there are countless organizations whose management, admin, finance etc. depts only do MS-Outlook for all calendaring and contact mgt.
Jul 20	comment	How do you keep all those languages straight in your head @John, give us some examples of things you tend to confuse or forget across languages (builtin method names? operator precedence? libraries? idioms?) How frequently do you switch between languages (monthly? hourly?)