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Feb 14	comment	At what stage of a project should documentation be done? I wouldn't say any documentation will help, not even in theory. Incorrect documentation can be and often is worse than no documentation at all.
Feb 13	comment	Implementing chat in 2013 Unless you began programming in the 60s, computers both had threads and multiple cores when you last implemented some sort of chat function.
Feb 13	comment	Is it plausible to use a filesystem-based configuration format rather than an INI file? @FrerichRaabe: We're all aware that it could work. We are all just arguing that your schemes disadvantages dominate its advantages.
Feb 13	comment	Is it plausible to use a filesystem-based configuration format rather than an INI file? @c-smile: how is that possibly any better than just using straight-up XML like a normal person?
Feb 13	comment	Is it plausible to use a filesystem-based configuration format rather than an INI file? @FrerichRaabe: Do you think anyone is going to want to type `find -print -exec more {} \;` constantly, instead of just seeing everything in an editor?
Feb 11	comment	Why is the main memory for object allocation called the 'heap'? @DeadMG: link to some then please, so we can put the dupe in the vote to close form.
Feb 7	comment	Communication between a C# application and C++ DLL @RobertHarvey: that is true, but you have the hassle of creating a C wrapper API around your objects. While COM isn't hassle free either, it can provide a better C# <-> C++ interface for objects.
Feb 4	comment	How can I get assembly from an EXE? That's only going to work if the original was written in .NET.
Feb 4	comment	Is it reasonable to expect all the items on the “Programmers Bill of Rights”? From the FAQ: "Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.". Can this be rephrased into a question focusing on a single point?
Feb 1	comment	How is C/C++ more difficult to decompile than C#? @JesseC.Slicer: I wouldn't even bother with that, I would use whatever made it able to get the job done with the least difficulty, and not even sweat concerns about disassembly. It will make no difference to someone trying to pirate it, and someone trying to replicate it will probably have an easier time doing it from scratch than trying to reverse engineer OPs offering.
Jan 27	comment	What happens when an unexpected packet arrives at a computer? @RossPatterson: Sometimes. A lot of systems are configured to not respond whatsoever to unexpected packets.
Jan 25	comment	Communication between a C# application and C++ DLL If you are ok being beholden to Windows platform COM would probably be the way to go.
Jan 25	comment	How do you write technical blogs? @RossPatterson: answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=177502 Mark Twain was likely not the source of that quote.
Jan 24	comment	hginit - #ifdefs ridiculous its not ridiculous when you only have one or two switches, but I've had to deal with huge chains of bizarrely inter nested groups of ifdefs and it's an abomination to try to comprehend, and if you had to deal with it, you'd find it ridiculous too. You think convoluted boost template code is hard to read......
Jan 23	comment	Why it is called “hash table”, or “hash function”? Hash doesn't make any sense to me here I find it funny that "Fried dish of potato and meats" is annotated "highly irrelevant", when it shares the same origin.
Jan 22	comment	Web Developer interview questions @Zirak: while it's easy enough to look up HTTP status codes, if someone's been working with web applications long enough, they'll have passively memorized a few just by virtue of having seen them 9001 times.
Jan 19	comment	Why aren't there modern C IDEs? Why didn't the Romans have automobiles?
Jan 17	comment	Fastest native C++ multi-platform compiler & IDE & debugger You are going to have to give us more details about what you are trying to build. There is no singular "fastest" anything in this field.
Jan 4	comment	Past If statements Arrays, loops… Now what? @JörgWMittag: They'll have some common techniques and demonstrations of typical programs, but anything non trivial is going to require a large degree of learned human judgment, which as of 2013, still cannot be mechanized.
Jan 3	comment	How flexible can hardware get? also x86 processors today aren't 'really' x86 any more, they have an x86 translation front end on top of a proprietary risc core.