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Senior developer, team lead, mathematics and CS background. Today I use mainly C# / C++ / VB.NET / VBA, but did also some Perl / Python / Javascript / Scheme and certain other languages in the past. I think it must be around four decades since I wrote my first programs for a TI59 programmable calculator.

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Why are unit tests failing seen as bad?
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A large part of my code has a major design flaw. Finish it off or fix it now?
Jun 7, 2016
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When to use / not use syntactic sugar
Jan 7, 2020
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How to modify the output of a program for which you don't have the source code
May 27, 2016
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Should I refactor the code that is marked as "don't change"?
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Coding standard for clarity: comment every line of code?
Nov 20, 2016
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Why do many software developers violate the open/closed principle?
Apr 30, 2017
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Why are some C programs written in one huge source file?
Mar 2, 2017
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Dealing with non-reproducible bugs
Oct 25, 2018
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Treating a 1D data structure as 2D grid
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