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What is the history of why bytes are eight bits?
Awarded Nov 5 at 23:41
Boolean Method Naming Affirmative vs Negative
Awarded Oct 22 at 14:53
Use of `is` and `as` in multiple conditions
Awarded Oct 20 at 21:56
Is SQL declarative?
Awarded Sep 26 at 8:12
What is a Comonad and how are they useful?
Awarded Sep 2 at 0:23
Is the git "Golden Rule of Rebasing" so essential?
Awarded Aug 29 at 13:00
How to detect the encoding of a file?
Awarded Aug 11 at 9:12
What is the history of why bytes are eight bits?
Awarded Aug 3 at 14:11
Why squash git commits for pull requests?
Awarded Jul 30 at 13:27
Type casting variables in PHP, what is the practical reason for doing this?
Awarded Jul 15 at 4:06
What is the appeal of Systems Hungarian?
Awarded Jul 3 at 20:16
How to justify code refactoring time?
Awarded Jul 1 at 8:21
Can a generic piece of C code be converted to an FSM?
Awarded Jun 5 at 19:35
Using third-party libraries - always use a wrapper?
Awarded May 16 at 22:48
What is the best way to comment a deprecated class in Java?
Awarded May 7 at 14:06
Alternative to Wilson Score when I only have the number of ratings and the average rating?
Awarded Apr 22 at 8:25
What can be done to programming languages to avoid floating point pitfalls?
Awarded Apr 12 at 18:01
Why does GHC represent recursion in Haskell with recursive binders instead of a fixpoint operator?
Awarded Apr 11 at 13:03
Where did the notion of 'calling' a function come from?
Awarded Apr 6 at 9:20
Fortran-Python Interface
Awarded Mar 25 at 9:45
why exposing service instead of repository in onion architecture
Awarded Mar 21 at 18:01
Terse finite state machines in Haskell
Awarded Mar 19 at 18:49
Why is the highest NUMERIC precision in most RDBMS 38?
Awarded Mar 16 at 21:11
What are the benefits of using Dependency Injection and IoC Containers?
Awarded Mar 16 at 10:10
Can too much abstraction be bad?
Awarded Mar 13 at 17:49
Are immutable/stateless singletons bad?
Awarded Mar 12 at 12:26
Is it bad practice that a controller calls a repository instead of a service?
Awarded Mar 3 at 10:58
Repository pattern vs DAO managing Entities
Awarded Mar 2 at 22:46
Should I avoid using spaces in my filenames?
Awarded Feb 26 at 7:45
Is it possible to compile Java into machine code? (Not bytecode)
Awarded Feb 17 at 23:06
Should an HTTP API always return a body?
Awarded Jan 27 at 0:25
Where did the notion of 'calling' a function come from?
Awarded Jan 18 at 14:17
How to deal with large data in Websocket message?
Awarded Jan 13 at 17:41
In c/c++, are block-scope variables stacked only if the block is executed?
Awarded Dec 10, 2024 at 12:00
What is the difference between a function and a lambda?
Awarded Dec 10, 2024 at 9:50
When writing specs BDD-style, should you use "should", or should you not?
Awarded Dec 2, 2024 at 23:22
How to Avoid Fragile Unit Tests?
Awarded Nov 8, 2024 at 23:37
CQRS+Event Sourcing as Top Level Architecture: Anti-Pattern
Awarded Nov 2, 2024 at 16:40
When "Log in" should be a use case and when not?
Awarded Oct 23, 2024 at 2:20
How to create multiline strings for sql queries that are readable, maintainable and fast in Java
Awarded Oct 16, 2024 at 19:30
Converting a very large remote subversion repository to a slimmed down Git repository
Awarded Oct 14, 2024 at 12:39
Why doesn't Python allow multi-line lambdas?
Awarded Oct 10, 2024 at 12:20
@staticmethod vs module-level function
Awarded Oct 7, 2024 at 13:11
Abstract Property In Base Class To Force Programmer To Define It
Awarded Sep 5, 2024 at 3:05
Is SMTP client created in singleton scope or request scope?
Awarded Aug 14, 2024 at 4:30
Why did memory-managed languages like Java, Javascript, and C# retain the `new` keyword?
Awarded Jul 19, 2024 at 8:33
Why should I use reflection?
Awarded Jul 3, 2024 at 12:36
Is there any reason to use "plain old data" classes?
Awarded Jul 3, 2024 at 11:56
What is a thread pool?
Awarded Jun 5, 2024 at 11:25
Why can't there be an "universal" programming language that serves all purposes?
Awarded Jun 4, 2024 at 20:18
What's the most used programming language in high performance computing? And why?
Awarded Jun 3, 2024 at 13:12
What is the absolute minimum set of instructions required to build a Turing complete processor
Awarded May 26, 2024 at 15:04
What is considered best practice for custom exception classes?
Awarded May 24, 2024 at 14:08
Should you retry 500 API errors?
Awarded May 23, 2024 at 19:30
Is imposing the same code format for all developers a good idea?
Awarded May 22, 2024 at 20:41
How do you annotate instantiation in UML class diagrams?
Awarded May 13, 2024 at 20:56
Are all boolean arguments flag arguments, and thus a code smell?
Awarded May 13, 2024 at 8:15
What are good reasons to use explicit interface implementation for the sole purpose of hiding members?
Awarded May 11, 2024 at 22:40
Why is implicit parallelism/concurrency not more widespread?
Awarded May 9, 2024 at 18:40
Which SPDX license is equivalent to 'All Rights Reserved'?
Awarded May 4, 2024 at 21:33
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