User Casebash - Programmers Stack Exchange

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When do you drop old technologies from your resume?

resume

feb 29 '12 at 17:47 Mel Padden 109

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How can I convince management to deal with technical debt?

code-quality technical-debt

feb 25 at 21:06 Brian Carlton 894

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What differentiates the exceptional programmers from the really good ones?

learning experience development-process

dec 14 '11 at 23:00 Joonha 91

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Why are there so few female programmers?

gender

jun 27 '11 at 22:46 Peter Mortensen 556

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Do I really need oop for my kind of job? After 10 years I think I don't

c++ object-oriented design

feb 22 at 17:30 Ramya 1

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How can I tactfully suggest improvements to others' badly designed code during review?

code-quality code-reviews software-craftsmanship colleagues

feb 14 at 21:23 omouse 400

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How do you deal with people who ask you to fix their computer?

mar 5 '11 at 18:51 Community♦ 1

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What are the drawbacks of elastic tabstops?

coding-style indentation

jan 11 at 23:12 Richard Nelson 51

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What are the warning signs of impending doom to watch out for on a project?

productivity experience warning-signs

jan 20 at 12:31 Jim G. 6,187

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What ethical problems realistically arise in programming?

ethics

sep 29 '11 at 4:18 Anna Lear♦ 23.4k

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What non-programming books should a programmer read to help develop programming/thinking skills?

self-improvement books

jan 13 '11 at 9:12 gablin 7,387

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What does mathematics have to do with programming?

development-process math

apr 3 '12 at 19:42 Bruce Ediger 2,906

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What should every programmer know about programming?

experience self-improvement programming-practices

jan 17 '11 at 10:15 l0b0 3,171

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What is your favorite whiteboard interview problem?

interview algorithms whiteboard

mar 31 '11 at 16:40 Buhake Sindi 603

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Where does this concept of “favor composition over inheritance” come from?

object-oriented inheritance composition

feb 7 at 20:00 Josh Voigts 115

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Where and how to mention Stackoverflow participation in the résumé?

resume

apr 26 '12 at 17:06 Jim 348

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What's the best place for a high school programmer to get his work noticed?

self-improvement career-development junior-programmer

jan 3 '12 at 20:27 Jim 418

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What is the best way to evaluate new programmers?

ideas evaluation

nov 24 at 21:56 S.Robins 8,312

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Years experience over unfinished degree?

career-development education

sep 1 at 11:25 Peter 1

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Why the scorn for COBOL?

cobol

oct 19 '11 at 8:24 Kennah 86

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How come compilers are so reliable?

testing bug compilers system-reliability

may 5 '11 at 8:03 Axel 101

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How can you explain “beautiful code” to a non-programmer?

non-programmers aesthetics

feb 27 at 15:19 fortran 323

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What should I do to be language-agnostic?

language-agnostic

nov 20 at 19:38 user61852 2,916

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How do you stay focused at work?

productivity time-management

jan 4 '11 at 21:22 studiohack 239

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What are your favorite version control systems?

favorite version-control

mar 7 '11 at 21:04 crosenblum 680

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Hiring programmers for small companies?

business

dec 22 '11 at 17:44 Paul Nathan 7,903

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What are the biggest differences between working for a small company and working for a mid-sized or large company?

work-environment

feb 4 '12 at 16:39 Jarrod Nettles 4,874

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How would you design a programming language?

programming-languages language-design

feb 25 '12 at 2:29 mindplay.dk 121

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How to test the tests?

unit-testing tdd debugging

feb 27 '12 at 14:48 vidstige 121

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How do you price your work?

project-management freelancing pricing cost-estimation

jun 23 '12 at 12:11 Dr.Kameleon 300

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