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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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Software License: Open Source, but no distribution (for free or for profit)
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Is there a canonical tutorial or book on functional programming concepts? [closed]
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How to change the semantic version number when reverting the last major change
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Will B-Trees and Other Data Structures Become Obsolete With The Advent of Solid State Drives?
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Pitfalls of Domain Driven Design with Entity Framework
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MVC: What is the difference between a model and a service?
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Should developers fix bugs in their own code? [closed]
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Clean Architecture: What is the View Model?
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Open source library, can the project owner change the license to be more restrictive?
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Logging in JSON Effect on Performance
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How to write a HTTP server?
Awarded Jun 29 at 12:52
What kind of license to put a private project?
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Multiple boolean arguments - why is it bad?
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When and how should I use exceptions?
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Is taking frequent breaks really that beneficial when programming? [closed]
Awarded Jun 16 at 19:06
What is the point of unit tests?
Awarded Jun 14 at 9:02
How to unit test image processing code?
Awarded Jun 13 at 8:09
Efficiency of C# dictionaries
Awarded Jun 12 at 9:27
Is there a difference between duck typing and structural typing? [duplicate]
Awarded Jun 11 at 17:05
Difference between Domain Driven Design and Clean Architecture
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ES / CQRS concurrency handling
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Why is Option/Maybe considered a good idea and checked exceptions are not?
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Is it okay to hard-code table and column names in queries?
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What is a good way to comment if-else-clauses? [closed]
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Is there a way to use a C++ API in C#?
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SQL as a means of avoiding "releases"
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Can I commerically use GPL licensed software on my server if I am only distributing the client software?
Awarded Apr 11 at 13:13
How to generate "language-safe" UUIDs?
Awarded Apr 11 at 9:25
How to drastically improve code coverage?
Awarded Apr 2 at 22:30
How do purely functional languages handle modularity?
Awarded Mar 28 at 22:37
Iterator pattern - why is it important to not expose the internal representation?
Awarded Mar 26 at 13:34
Providing friendly URLs for a website vs. realities of database IDs
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What are the benefits of tracking solved bugs?
Awarded Mar 17 at 8:26
How to protect source code from remote developers? [duplicate]
Awarded Mar 14 at 12:32
Advantages and disadvantages of using bit masks in database
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Is there any advantage to c-style bit manipulation over std::bitset?
Awarded Mar 10 at 16:46
SQL sanitizing in code with no user input
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Error handling - Should a program fail on errors or silently ignore them
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What's the correct way to do pair programming?
Awarded Feb 25 at 6:26
Why do executables depend on the OS but not on the CPU?
Awarded Feb 24 at 10:22
Why did it not become a common pattern to use setters in the constructor?
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Constructor with tons of parameters vs builder pattern
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Alternative patterns for web development? (non-MVC) [closed]
Awarded Feb 18 at 11:27
How can lossless compression ever exist?
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Should a class know about its subclasses?
Awarded Feb 1 at 22:36
What is an output argument, as refered to in Martin's Clean Code?
Awarded Feb 1 at 17:11
Why are commonly compiled languages not interpreted for faster iteration?
Awarded Jan 27 at 20:02
Does Semantic Versioning allow 4 components in version numbers?
Awarded Jan 17 at 19:08
I can't really tell the difference between Hexagonal and Layered Architecture
Awarded Jan 17 at 14:16
What does it mean to do a "null check" in C or C++?
Awarded Jan 16 at 0:36
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