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Dec 28	comment	what is the best way to ensure accountability in code checkins? I have found the term "accountability" to be a buzzword these days. What does accountable mean? How do you expect a technical solution to hold them "accountable"? Will a robot be dispatched to go shoot whoever checked in the code?
Dec 23	comment	Fastest Haskell library sort implementation There is no one sort to rule them all. Different sorts will be best for different kinds of data.
Dec 18	comment	Should I use JSON just to use JSON Rarely is using blah for the sake of using blah a wise plan. Look at the things JSON is good for, and then consider whether its worth using JSON for those specific aspects.
Dec 17	comment	How to create a random generator "totally random" is a very deep rabbit hole.
Dec 14	comment	Open Source License that prevents re-selling Do you not want them to share it whatsoever, or just that if they share they cannot charge a fee?
Dec 13	comment	Is the carriage-return char considered obsolete @ZJR: postels law is dangerous: be very careful when employing the robustness principle, because it frequently backfires. The html parsing mess we are still in can be attributed to that mindset. When a program accepts malformed input, its behavior as a result soon becomes expected and depended upon behavior, and any changes later that treat the malformed input differently, or not at all, while being technically correct, is often considered defective.
Dec 7	comment	I failed FizzBuzz, would you hire me? Improving oneself takes place on time scales longer than an hour. It's not important to the recruiter.
Dec 6	comment	I failed FizzBuzz, would you hire me? you also don't print out the number when it's neither a multiple of 3 nor 5. The fact that you didn't mention that either in posting this question would also make very skeptical.
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".