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Dec 5	comment	Benefits of TOGAF or similar? Lookingatthe TOGAF website for 10 seconds reminds me too much of stuff like HL7, CDA and other absurd specifications that are an enormous hassle.
Dec 5	comment	Can I maintain copyright of the name/logo of an otherwise copyleft (GPL) application? Another example is Firefox, which is under the GPL compatible MPL, but because of trademark issues, is released by Debian as Iceweasel.
Dec 4	comment	I want to build a Virtual Machine, are there any good references? @MichaelStum: I think you should find some interesting problem to solve utilizing your VM. That will give you a lot of direction in what needs to be in your VM. You could try making a virtual PIC or Arduino or something.
Dec 3	comment	why not use unmanaged safe code in c# I've written plenty of code over the years that sometimes crashed or had memory leaks, that I was pretty sure didn't have memory leaks or risks of crashes.
Nov 27	comment	Using machine learning to aim mirrors in a solar array? The fact that you have hundreds of mirrors is not a big deal, the behavior for each individual mirror doesn't depend on its neighbors. You're intentionally making this problem harder than it really is.
Nov 25	comment	Is thıs code efficient always for finding array[max]? @delnan: I would not call his claim of O(n log n) running time to be a 'gross misrepresentation of big O'. This is exactly the sort of stuff big O is used for, and he cited it properly.
Nov 25	comment	Is there a formal definiton of software quality Are you looking for any formal standards, or any that work or are useful? The latter is virtually impossible, because doing so essentially demands the ability to mechanize the process of good judgment, something out of the range of any process people can currently conceive.
Nov 24	comment	At what point/range is a code file too big? @user1598390: usually, but not always.
Nov 22	comment	Compute if a function is pure Running forever doesn't seem to discount a function from fitting his criteria for a pure function.
Nov 20	comment	Looking for a non-cryptographic hash function that returns a single character Why not an 8 bit CRC?
Nov 16	comment	Should I give the answer to a failed interview coding exercise? You're saying fuzzbuzz2 is harder, but you've also changed the goalposts quite a bit.
Nov 11	comment	Programming Interview : How to debug a program? The four steps of your "simple as that", can be enormously complicated at times. It's rarely as "simple as that".
Nov 7	comment	Can you have a while loop (or something similar) that can be satisfied if either of two conditions are met? learn about the && and \|\| operators. Also you'd want inequalities instead of !=.
Nov 2	comment	Is modern C++ replacing C#? Is Microsoft pushing developers to adopt C++? @Pavel, but that shouldn't be used to indicate that one language is better than another. If you spent all day every day writing perl, you'd be googling for c++ snippets all the time.
Oct 29	comment	Is “send us a page with code” a typical interview requirement? @EmilioGaravaglia: Using weird characters was addressed right in the intro to the code sample. "Tháñk göödñéss ñóbódÿ üsés wíërd sɹǝʇʇǝן!" Either way it doesn't take much thinking to realize that code sample is swill, and any applicant submitting that would be rightly rejected.
Oct 28	awarded	Yearling
Oct 26	comment	What's so difficult about SVN merges? @MasonWheeler: I think you're taking the tree analogy a bit too literally.
Oct 24	comment	How do operating systems… run… without having an OS to run in? Programming an arduino, or some other microcontroller, will also teach some of the aspects of 'bare metal' programming.
Oct 20	answered	Can non-IT people learn and take advantage of regular expressions?
Oct 8	comment	Should you promise to deliver a feature that you aren't sure if its implementable? @Earlz: that's assuming that the universe is deterministic, which isn't necessarily true.