Mason Wheeler

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bio	website	tech.turbu-rpg.com
	location	Seattle, WA
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A lifelong programmer who's been coding in Delphi since its initial release and currently makes a living at it.

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384 Answers

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97	How can a new programmer impress the software engineer (boss)?
94	Should I return from a function early or use an if statement?
92	Is it a good idea to design an architecture thinking that the User Interface classes can be replaced by a command line interface?
80	Are unit tests really that useful?
70	What to say when you don’t know the answer to an interview question?

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+68	Why are nested loops considered bad practice?
+6	What's the difference between a stream and a queue?
+10	What are the chances of Google's Go becoming a mainstream language?
+10	May I keep my program closed source if I link it against a static library of which the source is GNU GPLv2?

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10 Questions

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51	Where does this concept of “favor composition over inheritance” come from?
34	What's the scariest piece of Other People's Code you've ever had to maintain? [closed]
32	Where does the term “Red/Black Tree” come from?
11	What did they call Object-Oriented Programming before Alan Kay invented the term?
11	Is functional programming actually used to create applications? [duplicate]

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183 interview × 10	112 security × 6
161 programming-practices × 15	111 c# × 12
135 object-oriented × 16	107 java × 12

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