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DDD - Are 'use cases' and 'application services' different names for the same thing?
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What is the pattern for a safe interface in C++
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What is the difference between channel-based I/O and stream-based I/O in java?
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Why don't programming languages or IDEs support attaching descriptive metadata to variables?
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How to Respond to Directive: "Move Our Entire Website to a CMS Service"
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Do I really need a unit test framework?
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How to architecture a realtime-heavy websockets-based web application?
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Leading a not-so-good team
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How do you scale your integration testing?
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How far can you push Object Oriented Programming?
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Patterns for passing context through a method chain
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Self-documenting Code vs Commented Code
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In functional programming, are local mutable variables with no side effects still considered "bad practice"?
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Is method overriding always a violation of Liskov Substitution Principle?
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Parameters are passed by value, but editing them will edit the actual object (like passed by reference)? [duplicate]
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Environment naming standards in software development?
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Avoiding throw because we are not sure the exceptions will always be caught
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Is it bad practice to store a user's email address in a JWT?
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Is **kwargs an antipattern?
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How to use unit tests when using BDD?
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How does one decide if a data object type should be designed to be immutable?
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is it realistic to make use of HTML5 local storage to store CSS, and JavaScript
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Debugging memory corruption
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How to give feedback on a badly reviewed PR
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How do unit tests facilitate refactoring without introducing regressions?
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How would one go about building pluggable software?
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Where does Objective-C fall in the language performance continuum?
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Git branching strategy for long-running unreleased code
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Dealing with state problems in functional programming
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Why is XSLT so rarely used on the web? [closed]
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In C/C++, should I use 'const' in parameters and local variables when possible?
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Can I safely ignore byte order in networking?
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In git, is it a bad idea to create a tag with the same name as a deleted branch?
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In Scrum, why don't you use aging and guaranteed time slice to prevent outdated tasks in the backlog?
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How to implement a safe password history
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How to avoid throwing vexing exceptions?
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What do you do with branches you've abandoned?
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Why is the term "string" so often abbreviated as "sz"?
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Why isn't there generic batching syscall in Linux/BSD?
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Why can't an xml comment contain two hyphens
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How to make Scrum less stressful
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Downsides of GNU LGPL v3 vs. GNU LGPL v2.1?
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Why is REST commonly used instead of RPC-like mechanisms in web applications?
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What is the name for the non-extension part of a filename? [closed]
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Should I not show all my skills? [closed]
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Where should I do localization (server-side or client-side)?
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Why do we put private member functions in headers?
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How can we avoid extremely complex configurations in enterprise software?
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Is our outsourced software vendor "Agile" or do they just not want to plan things?
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Understanding the problem when things break in production
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Why are off by one errors so common and what can we do to prevent them?
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What is the reason for using lowercase for the first word in a local variable (eg, employeeCount, firstName)
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Java serialization - advantages and disadvantages, use or avoid? [closed]
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If a variable has getter and setter, should it be public?
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What is a good way to indicate that a number is not something you can count with?
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When to *not* use SOLID principles
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How much time should you spend planning a commit before writing code?
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How often is seq used in Haskell production code?
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Is it a bad habit to (over)use reflection?
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Refactoring constructor that has too many parameters [duplicate]
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