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Bernard
  • Member for 14 years, 10 months
  • Last seen more than 2 years ago
  • Kitchener, Canada
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Do We Have a Responsiblity to Improve Old Code?

59 votes

Is it considered poor practice to include a bug number in a method name for a temporary workaround?

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As a programmer, should I know low and high-level programming languages?

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When do 'static functions' come into use?

35 votes

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

28 votes

Dictionary vs List

26 votes

How to stop gold-plating and just be content to release working developments

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Overcome clumsiness in writing code

15 votes

What is the difference between building and compiling ?

14 votes

Is it good practice to comment with issue number?

14 votes

Demonstrate bad code to client?

13 votes
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Can't work on real projects because I keep thinking about my side projects

12 votes

Is there an alternative to Google Code Search?

12 votes
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When should a class or module be in a separate Assembly/DLL?

12 votes

Should I follow an open source project's documentation patterns even if they are bad?

11 votes
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Continuous integration - build Debug and Release every time?

11 votes

How important is self-teaching in the programming field?

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Could implicit static methods cause problems?

11 votes

Simple issue tracker for 1-2 developers

10 votes

Are `break` and `continue` bad programming practices?

10 votes

Coming from QA, how can one land that first development job?

9 votes

Database abstraction -- is it being overdone?

9 votes

Is it necessary to write a javadoc comment for EVERY parameter in a method's signature?

9 votes

Jenkins without Automated Tests

7 votes

How-to convince company to start documenting for legacy software

7 votes

Dealing with management that does not see value in improvements that are not immediately visible to the user

7 votes

How do you get consistency in source code / UI without stifling developer's creativity?

7 votes

What's a good, concise way to explain the dangers of copy-paste programming to non-programmers?

7 votes
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Estimate cost of project depends on [SLOC|COCOMO]?

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Why do Windows commands allow `-` and `/` switches?

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