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What is the supposed productivity gain of dynamic typing? [closed]

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Hans-Peter Störr

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Is it ever okay to use lists in a relational database?

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linus72982

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Why have private static methods?

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Rehan Naqvi

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What is the history of why bytes are eight bits?

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DarenW

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Folder-by-type or Folder-by-feature

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Jelle

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Which way are downstream and upstream services?

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user69715

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When and for what purposes should the const keyword be used in C for variables?

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Aseem Bansal

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What is the most accepted transaction strategy for microservices

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Kristof

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RESTful API. Should I be returning the object that was created / updated?

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iswinky

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What makes a language Turing-complete?

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Curious Cat

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With all of these services, how can I not be anemic?

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SonOfPirate

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Why is OOP difficult? [closed]

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gablin

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Should I use a parser generator or should I roll my own custom lexer and parser code?

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Maniero

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Should I submit a pull request to correct minor typos in a Readme file?

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Florent Michel

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Is XHTML5 dead or is it just an synonym of HTML5?

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W3C

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Where is the line between unit testing application logic and distrusting language constructs?

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Jonah

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Should we create a new single instance of HttpClient for all requests?

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Ankit Vijay

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Storing a re-orderable list in a database

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Tom Brunoli

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If I fork a project on Github that is licensed under MIT, how do I handle the attribution and copyright notice?

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David

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Should cookies be used in a RESTful API?

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Brandon Linton

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Has / can anyone challenge Uncle Bob on his love of removing "useless braces"?

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candied_orange

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Check First vs Exception Handling?

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jmq

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What's the difference between MariaDB and MySQL?

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chrisjlee

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Why did BASIC use line numbers?

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DerMike

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Is it advisable to ask employees to create 'work' GitHub accounts?

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fiorenti

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Zero behavior objects in OOP - my design dilemma

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RokL

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How should I organize my source tree?

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check123

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Clean Architecture: Use case containing the presenter or returning data?

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swahnee

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Working on a branch with a dependence on another branch that is being reviewed

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sul4bh

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Clang warning flags for Objective-C development

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Macmade

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Why use try … finally without a catch clause?

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Niklas Rosencrantz

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When to use a Parser Combinator? When to use a Parser Generator?

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Qqwy

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What is the "Free Monad + Interpreter" pattern?

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Benjamin Hodgson

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What is wrong with the Unlicense?

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cgt

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Should I return an HTTP 400 (Bad Request) status if a parameter is syntactically correct, but violates a business rule?

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Thunderforge

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How do you detect dependency problems with unit tests when you use mock objects?

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bvgheluwe

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What is the name of a function that takes no argument and returns nothing? [closed]

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superbob

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How exactly should unit tests be written without mocking extensively?

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Alex Lomia

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Why the recent shift to removing/omitting semicolons from Javascript?

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Jonathan

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Staging environment vs Production environment

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rdasxy

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How is a Java reference different from a C pointer?

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Gnijuohz

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What are the London and Chicago schools of TDD?

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Arturo Herrero

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

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Daniel Scocco

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Why is C not considered an 'object-oriented' language?

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Dark Templar

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What's wrong with relative imports in Python?

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Oddthinking

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Why do programming languages, especially C, use curly braces and not square ones?

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SomeKittens

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MIT vs. BSD vs. Dual License

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ryanve

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Why should 'boneheaded' exceptions not be caught, especially in server code?

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gaazkam

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TDD negative experience [closed]

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SiberianGuy

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What is the advantage of choosing ASCII encoding over UTF-8?

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Pacerier

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When do function call costs still matter in modern compilers?

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Billal Begueradj

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Does immutability hurt performance in JavaScript?

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callum

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What does it mean when data is scalar?

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Ryan

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Why doesn't Java have optimization for tail-recursion at all?

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InformedA

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What's the reason for not using C++17's [[nodiscard]] almost everywhere in new code?

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Christian Hackl

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Which HTTP verb should I use to trigger an action in a REST web service?

Awarded Aug 17, 2020 at 16:18

Renato Dinhani

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Why is "Select * from table" considered bad practice

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the baconing

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Which things instantly ring alarm bells when looking at code? [closed]

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FinnNk

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What is a "shaded" Java dependency?

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smeeb

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"Standard" format for using a timestamp as part of a filename [closed]

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dting

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