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| location | New York, NY | |
| age | 35 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 5 months |
| seen | Mar 18 at 15:48 | |
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Chemical Engineer by degree, but developer / software engineer by trade (market forced my hobby upon me as my occupation).
Started in Pascal / Basic. Moved into MS Access development, and now Java Developer for ~15 years. Mostly working in server-side frameworks and enterprise applications.
Been expanding my skill set into Polyglot development, trying my hand in Clojure and most recently Groovy, and doing a fair amount shell scripting for cross-environment application server support.
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Mar 17 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Dec 7 |
awarded | Yearling |
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May 17 |
awarded | Announcer |
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Apr 23 |
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How not to degenerate into only a programmer who stitches together APIs? @timday While not perfect, it does highlight what I might be missing, and where I would like to go. It also allows me to prioritize based on personal preference or professional requirements. |
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Apr 21 |
answered | How not to degenerate into only a programmer who stitches together APIs? |
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Apr 17 |
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Where can I find language specific programming standards and style guides? I eluded to the Google guide, but there are other guides for all languages. It's useless to just list a couple of the specific URLs. |
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Apr 17 |
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Whose responsibility is a bug fix patch? Agreed 100%, there's no onus on the end-user to submit a fix directly into the source repository, unless you want to become a regular contributor to the project. That's what the mailing lists and bug trackers are for. Spring, Maven, etc do this exact model where people will find the solution on their own, and post it to the entry in Jira. It's upto whomever is working on the bug to accept and handle the contribution. |
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Apr 17 |
answered | Where can I find language specific programming standards and style guides? |
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Apr 17 |
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What's the best way to review a code before it's committed to the trunk? (SVN) Constant branch creation and repeated merging is a detraction that far outweighs potentially (and irrevocably) polluting trunk. Generally the prime directive for version control is "don't break the build". If you can do that, there's no real harm in checking in, and everything else is just an adjustment after the fact. |
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Apr 16 |
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How to answer to this HashTable interview question? The method is hashCode(), not GetHashCode(). |
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Apr 16 |
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How to answer to this HashTable interview question? Hashtable does not support null. |
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Apr 16 |
accepted | Is it possible to efficiently store all possible phone numbers in memory? |
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Apr 16 |
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Is it possible to efficiently store all possible phone numbers in memory? Right. After rereading, that makes sense (fuzzy morning brain). Thanks. |
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Apr 16 |
awarded | Critic |
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Apr 16 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
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Apr 16 |
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Is it possible to efficiently store all possible phone numbers in memory? Memory efficiency. I would eventually tie a name to this set, but you could have more than one name attached to a phone number. Just trying to get this part of the problem thought through first. |
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Apr 16 |
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Is it possible to efficiently store all possible phone numbers in memory? The reason I said 6 billion is that for the same reason that you reduce the "permutable" set from 10 down to 8 billion based on illegal area codes, you would do the same exact thing for exchanges, thus dropping it down another 2 billion (roughly). This then makes storing unused numbers almost as bad as used numbers. I do like the idea though. |
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Apr 16 |
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Is it possible to efficiently store all possible phone numbers in memory? Why would you assume that anything is filled in order? Why would you also assume that the lower exchange codes are used in more areas than higher ones? Unless you know some internal phone company algorithm, I don't think either of these are valid assumptions. |
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Apr 15 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Apr 15 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
