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This tag is for questions that aren't specific to a programming language or environment.
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Are static classes with static methods considered SOLID?
SOLID includes the Liskov substitution princicple
which has the notion that “objects in a program should be replaceable with instances of their subtypes without altering the correctness of that progra …
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Using "catching exceptions" to improve readability, Good or Bad?
In the section When to Use Exception in The Pragmatic Programmer, the book writes that instead of:
retcode = OK;
if (socket.read(name) != OK) {
retcode = BAD_READ;
}
else {
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Is functional programming just different, or is it actually really tougher?
Is functional programming just different, or is it actually really tougher?
Say someone who have never learned programming at all before, and is taught functional programming. vs someone who have nev …
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When they say its open source it means i can take their pictures?
when they say that a project is open source (i.e. LifeRay) does it mean that I can take anything I want from that project?
I want to use some of the icons used in LifeRay portal for my own (commercia …
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what exactly is hypertext?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext:
Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device
with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can
immediately access, …
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why is it easy to break verification images if they are not distorted to the extent that hum...
I don't understand why people like to say "Images had to be distorted otherwise they would be easily cracked". I'm talking about those verification images that we had to type to identify that we are h …
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