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19h	comment	Virtual lifeforms a.k.a implement life in the computer You need to define what you are going to accept as a virtual lifeform or a virtual dimension. If you define life as "anything that can reproduce, carries something equivalent to a gene, and undergoes selection, then clearly this can be done on a computer (it has). If you require, say, metabolism, then it depends on what you accept as virtual metabolism. Which means it's not a very interesting programming question - more like philosophy.
1d	comment	Is there something which can write the function for me given the pattern? @AndresF. - My point is that there are infinite possible answers (I believe uncountably infinite), and that it does permit answers that are quite trivial. If the question has a "spirit" it should probably be included in the question. If the question doesn't do any work, why should the answers?
1d	comment	Is there something which can write the function for me given the pattern? Sure, make it a function that returns those values for those inputs and null for all inputs.
May 20	comment	What to do as a Dev when for years their team has lacked product innovation, not used project mgmt methodologies, and kept bad Software Dev practices? Really insightful. Programmers seem to mostly assume they are, or should be, working on high investment, high cash generation "star" projects, and the Growth Share Matrix reference explains why this can very reasonably not be the case. It would be nice to know if cash cow projects tend to be good for the workers involved - it's important work, but does low cash cost outlay tend to mean low pay per worker, or just fewer workers? And they won't be cutting edge technology, as a rule.
May 16	answered	Good practice -apply paradigm to a language that is not fit for it
May 15	comment	Is there any third party analysis tools for SQL Server? Excel is fairly Excel-like.
May 15	comment	What is the name of a grammar which can change it's tokenizer in mid parse? I have read of a term for doing something like this in the lexer. Sadly I don't currently remember either the name or anything helpful to look it up (well, it was a Martin Fowler signature series book).
May 15	answered	Introducing Fowler's Table Data Gateway to refactor poorly designed systems
May 14	comment	How to genericize foreign key references in table? Documentation for ORMs (Object Relational Mappers) should have some explanations of various ways they map an object model onto a relational model, and the pros and cons of those options. You also might decide to use such a tool.
May 14	comment	Document existing Visual Studio Project Unless the code is really unusually terrible, in which case, rewrite. Whether it is or not, the odds are good that the new developer will say that it is.
May 14	reviewed	Leave Open How to run C++ code in browser using asm.js?
May 14	reviewed	Leave Open Can I demand code quality on a project I've gotten
May 14	reviewed	Leave Open Is the algorithm more important than the programming language?
May 14	reviewed	Leave Open Beans, DTOs, & Non-Internal Classes as Data in General - Acceptable or OOP-Murdering Antipatterns?
May 14	reviewed	Close Underlying infrastructure behind something similar to Code School
May 14	reviewed	Close Is small business website freelancing dead?
May 14	reviewed	Leave Open Reasoning to wait until third time in the Rule of Three?
May 14	reviewed	Close How do you survive as a programmer with RSI or Carpal Tunnel?
May 10	comment	Writing a Compiler Compiler - Insight on Use and Features @chrisaycock - antlr2.org/doc/options.html see buildAST.
May 10	comment	How should I behave as a developer in a project that's headed for failure? +1 for an answer having something to do with software development.