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| bio | website | craig.mcqueen.id.au |
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| location | Melbourne, Australia | |
| age | 37 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 7 months |
| seen | Feb 21 at 3:40 | |
| stats | profile views | 8 |
- Christian (Sabbath keeper too)
- piano player (gr 7 AMEB; like jazz)
- Linux user
- Embedded software developer (C)
- Python
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Feb 28 |
awarded | Critic |
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Feb 28 |
comment |
Correcting indentation Improper indentation could hide real bugs, or slow down developers' ability to work effectively with code. Then there might be a business case for cleaning it up. There are automated tools that could help keep the cost low ( indent). |
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Feb 28 |
comment |
Should you fix preexisting defects while working on something else? If a user finds a bug, how often are they annoyed at your product and your company, but don't report it to you? I'm guessing a high percentage. |
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Feb 28 |
comment |
Does anyone prefer proportional fonts? A related challenge is how you deal with Japanese or Chinese characters in source code (comments, strings). They really need to be double-width for readability, but that messes with several monospace assumptions. |
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Oct 13 |
comment |
What's the worst question you were ever asked at interview? I would want to ask: Define "equal". |
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Oct 13 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Oct 13 |
accepted | How could I hire a programmer to add a small feature to an OSS project? |
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Oct 8 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Oct 7 |
awarded | Editor |
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Oct 6 |
awarded | Student |
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Oct 6 |
asked | How could I hire a programmer to add a small feature to an OSS project? |
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Oct 6 |
awarded | Autobiographer |
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Oct 6 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Jun 27 |
comment |
Should UTF-16 be considered harmful? I didn't quite get your comment on UTF-8 and surrogate pairs. Surrogate pairs is only a concept that is meaningful in the UTF-16 encoding, right? Perhaps code that converts directly from UTF-16 encoding to UTF-8 encoding might get this wrong, and in that case, the problem is incorrectly reading the UTF-16, not writing the UTF-8. Is that right? |
