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Stephen C
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Does software rot refer primarily to performance, or to messy code?

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How important is it to learn makefiles?

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Does it make sense to use the term "Space Leak" with regard to Java?

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What are the considerations to determine whether you can use recursion to solve a problem?

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Why do we call Java open source, when development or contributions are not decentralized

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Is it time to deprecate synchronized, wait and notify?

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Why aren't macros included in most modern programming languages?

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What should be done when upgrading compiler introduces bug in existing project?

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Fastest Functional Language

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Does "cc", "vv", "^^" have a special meaning in code?

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Are these advanced/unfair interview questions regarding Java concurrency?

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What does the lack of Unicode support in PHP mean?

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Why was the percent sign (%) chosen as the format specifier for the printf family of functions?

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Programmaticaly finding the Landau notation (Big O or Theta notation) of an algorithm?

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How can I quickly weed out "copy & paste" coders?

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Javascript and proprietary algorithms

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How many regression bugs from refactoring is too many.

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Can the author of code licensed under CC-NC-ND use it in commercial closed-source software?

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Invalid data returned, which HttpCode to return?

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Why isn't there a next operation on enums?

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Client wants source code, but it contains a lot of shared code I reuse with other projects

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Using error numbers which only work on 64 bit servers: a bad idea?

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When am I justified in using a License?

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Which one of these answers regarding functions is incorrect?

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What's the complexity of Java's string split function?

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I just received a complaint from a user of the website I maintain. Should I do anything?

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Why dynamically typed languages do not let the developer specify the type?

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Is Google Closure a true compiler?

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Are checksums in file formats obsolete?

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Why do some APIs simply throw Exception?

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