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“It was working yesterday, I swear!” What can you do?
Aug 31 '11 at 9:25
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How do operating systems… run… without having an OS to run in?
Oct 24 '12 at 8:01
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Why are bit masks called “masks” and what purpose do they serve?
Sep 26 '17 at 12:21
50
Who created the idea(s) of the first loop constructs?
May 21 '12 at 11:12
44
Why has C prevailed over Pascal?
Oct 18 '11 at 8:34
40
Is it a good practice to name the returned variable “result”?
Feb 10 '12 at 9:33
37
How to modify software to become real-time?
Jan 5 '17 at 10:47
35
How 'simple' is a real KISS solution?
Oct 25 '11 at 17:30
35
What's the difference between syntax and semantics?
Oct 12 '11 at 8:31
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Except garbage collector, what else makes Java a non real time programming language
Jun 24 '13 at 4:39
30
Why are structs/arrays zero based?
Apr 23 '11 at 2:06
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Why is the “kill” command called so?
May 30 '12 at 8:21
25
Why do programmers write closed source applications and then make them free?
Sep 13 '10 at 14:02
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Which is the better: a <= b or a < b+1
Sep 17 '13 at 21:25
23
Should I tell someone that their commit caused a regression?
Sep 27 '11 at 9:22
20
What's the difference between fault, error and defect?
Jan 22 '13 at 6:44
20
Drawbacks of code kata
Mar 6 '12 at 9:24
20
How to get better at testing your own code
Aug 29 '11 at 13:00
19
A large part of my code has a major design flaw. Finish it off or fix it now?
Jun 7 '16 at 7:38
19
Should we design programs to randomly kill themselves?
Jun 22 '13 at 17:56
18
Is the carriage-return char considered obsolete
Dec 13 '12 at 9:07
16
I hate one of our coding standards and it drives me insane, how to process it?
Jan 16 '13 at 8:32
16
Pair programming when driver and observer have different skill level and experience
Jan 15 '13 at 8:21
16
Isn't class scope purely for organization?
Oct 23 '12 at 7:23
16
OO best practices for C programs
Nov 7 '11 at 9:13
16
What are the typical naming conventions for OO C public and private functions?
Oct 21 '11 at 12:27
15
Force users to update to the latest version of my app on the Google Play Store
Jan 6 '14 at 10:04
15
typedefs and #defines
Jan 18 '12 at 11:44
15
What hurts maintainability?
Dec 5 '11 at 8:45
14
What's wrong with circular references?
Oct 14 '10 at 8:19
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