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Is it worth making a commit solely to resolve non-critical typos?

answered Jul 10, 2012 at 15:20

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Many small classes vs. logical (but) intricate inheritance

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What is the term for this type of refactoring

answered Jul 26, 2012 at 8:39

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Is it a good practice to use branches to maintain different editions of the same software?

answered Feb 13, 2012 at 8:28

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Does one method overload an other, or are both methods "overloaded"

answered Apr 19, 2012 at 16:52

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Why don't more languages support recursive/nested comments?

answered Oct 26, 2011 at 8:46

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How to write useful Java programs without using mutable variables

answered Feb 15, 2013 at 13:33

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Declaring functions as final... except when it is me who does the deriving

answered Feb 7, 2013 at 18:41

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After writing code, why do I feel that "I would have written better" after some time?

answered Jan 22, 2012 at 11:48

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Can I use GPL, LGPL, MPL licensed packages with my application and make it closed source?

answered Dec 16, 2011 at 15:22

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What are good techniques for keeping your place in code?

answered Sep 29, 2011 at 8:39

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Is it a acceptable approach to put try catch wherever null pointer exception occurs?

answered Feb 15, 2013 at 10:44

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Making things just work and then improve them, or attempt to make them "perfect" from the beginning?

answered Feb 17, 2013 at 23:18

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What is the possible disadvantage of putting declarations in inner blocks, instead of at beginning of function?

answered Nov 11, 2011 at 12:53

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Differences between programming in school vs programming in industry?

answered Nov 13, 2011 at 12:49

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When would I use pseudocode instead of flowchart?

answered Jun 28, 2012 at 17:49

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Open source code with no license... can I fork it?

answered May 10, 2012 at 23:53

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Methods on packaging an assembler with compiler

answered Dec 20, 2011 at 17:21

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Sort algorithms that work on large amount of data

answered Jan 3, 2012 at 15:05

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What were the reasons why Windows never had a decent shell?

answered Oct 15, 2011 at 22:09

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What's The Difference Between Imperative, Procedural and Structured Programming?

answered Oct 31, 2011 at 16:04

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What keywords are important to speedup the code in C++?

answered Nov 1, 2011 at 11:55

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Required technical knowledge for developing high-level to high-level language translators

answered Oct 7, 2011 at 12:18

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How do you put different versions of your library under version control? Do you use tags? Or branches? Or another method?

answered Sep 29, 2011 at 14:32

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Overcome clumsiness in writing code

answered Jan 3, 2012 at 14:52

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At what point should you switch to release build?

answered Nov 17, 2011 at 12:24

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Why do different languages use different Code Line Delimiters?

answered Apr 12, 2012 at 7:01

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What kind of interface should a double container offer?

answered Dec 12, 2011 at 8:19

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When can I be sure a directed graph is acyclic?

answered Nov 12, 2011 at 12:56

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Why do we tend to make things too complicated?

answered Oct 1, 2011 at 9:52

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47 Answers

Is it worth making a commit solely to resolve non-critical typos?

Many small classes vs. logical (but) intricate inheritance

What is the term for this type of refactoring

Is it a good practice to use branches to maintain different editions of the same software?

Does one method overload an other, or are both methods "overloaded"

Why don't more languages support recursive/nested comments?

How to write useful Java programs without using mutable variables

Declaring functions as final... except when it is me who does the deriving

After writing code, why do I feel that "I would have written better" after some time?

Can I use GPL, LGPL, MPL licensed packages with my application and make it closed source?

What are good techniques for keeping your place in code?

Is it a acceptable approach to put try catch wherever null pointer exception occurs?

Making things just work and then improve them, or attempt to make them "perfect" from the beginning?

What is the possible disadvantage of putting declarations in inner blocks, instead of at beginning of function?

Differences between programming in school vs programming in industry?

When would I use pseudocode instead of flowchart?

Open source code with no license... can I fork it?

Methods on packaging an assembler with compiler

Sort algorithms that work on large amount of data

What were the reasons why Windows never had a decent shell?

What's The Difference Between Imperative, Procedural and Structured Programming?

What keywords are important to speedup the code in C++?

Required technical knowledge for developing high-level to high-level language translators

How do you put different versions of your library under version control? Do you use tags? Or branches? Or another method?

Overcome clumsiness in writing code

At what point should you switch to release build?

Why do different languages use different Code Line Delimiters?

What kind of interface should a double container offer?

When can I be sure a directed graph is acyclic?

Why do we tend to make things too complicated?