User mouviciel

96 votes

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"It was working yesterday, I swear!" What can you do?

testing debugging

answered Aug 31, 2011 at 9:25

62 votes

How do operating systems… run… without having an OS to run in?

kernel operating-systems

answered Oct 24, 2012 at 8:01

56 votes

Why are bit masks called "masks" and what purpose do they serve?

terminology efficiency low-level bitwise-operators

answered Sep 26, 2017 at 12:21

52 votes

Who created the idea(s) of the first loop constructs?

history loops

answered May 21, 2012 at 11:12

52 votes

Why has C prevailed over Pascal?

programming-languages c history pascal

answered Oct 18, 2011 at 8:34

40 votes

Is it a good practice to name the returned variable "result"?

programming-practices naming variables

answered Feb 10, 2012 at 9:33

38 votes

How to modify software to become real-time?

c++ real-time

answered Jan 5, 2017 at 10:47

35 votes

What's the difference between syntax and semantics?

syntax semantics

answered Oct 12, 2011 at 8:31

35 votes

How 'simple' is a real KISS solution?

design-patterns

answered Oct 25, 2011 at 17:30

34 votes

Except garbage collector, what else makes Java a non real time programming language

java c++ garbage-collection real-time

answered Jun 24, 2013 at 4:39

30 votes

Why are structs/arrays zero based?

programming-languages

answered Apr 23, 2011 at 2:06

27 votes

Why is the "kill" command called so?

terminology history unix

answered May 30, 2012 at 8:21

25 votes

Why do programmers write closed source applications and then make them free?

pricing freeware

answered Sep 13, 2010 at 14:02

23 votes

Should I tell someone that their commit caused a regression?

version-control issue-tracking

answered Sep 27, 2011 at 9:22

23 votes

Which is the better: a <= b or a < b+1

coding-style coding-standards comparison

answered Sep 17, 2013 at 21:25

23 votes

What's the difference between fault, error and defect?

terminology quality

answered Jan 22, 2013 at 6:44

20 votes

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How to get better at testing your own code

testing

answered Aug 29, 2011 at 13:00

20 votes

Drawbacks of code kata

code-kata

answered Mar 6, 2012 at 9:24

19 votes

Should we design programs to randomly kill themselves?

design

answered Jun 22, 2013 at 17:56

19 votes

A large part of my code has a major design flaw. Finish it off or fix it now?

code-quality refactoring personal-projects rewrite

answered Jun 7, 2016 at 7:38

18 votes

Is the carriage-return char considered obsolete

mac osx character-encoding software-obsolescence

answered Dec 13, 2012 at 9:07

17 votes

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Isn't class scope purely for organization?

java c++ theory class-design scope

answered Oct 23, 2012 at 7:23

17 votes

Pair programming when driver and observer have different skill level and experience

agile pair-programming

answered Jan 15, 2013 at 8:21

17 votes

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What are the typical naming conventions for OO C public and private functions?

object-oriented c embedded-systems

answered Oct 21, 2011 at 12:27

16 votes

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OO best practices for C programs

c object-oriented-design

answered Nov 7, 2011 at 9:13

16 votes

What hurts maintainability?

maintainability

answered Dec 5, 2011 at 8:45

16 votes

I hate one of our coding standards and it drives me insane, how to process it?

coding-style coding-standards teamwork

answered Jan 16, 2013 at 8:32

16 votes

Force users to update to the latest version of my app on the Google Play Store

android android-market

answered Jan 6, 2014 at 10:04

15 votes

What's wrong with circular references?

code-quality coding-style

answered Oct 14, 2010 at 8:19

14 votes

typedefs and #defines

c++ c programming-practices

answered Jan 18, 2012 at 11:44

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236 Answers

"It was working yesterday, I swear!" What can you do?

How do operating systems… run… without having an OS to run in?

Why are bit masks called "masks" and what purpose do they serve?

Who created the idea(s) of the first loop constructs?

Why has C prevailed over Pascal?

Is it a good practice to name the returned variable "result"?

How to modify software to become real-time?

What's the difference between syntax and semantics?

How 'simple' is a real KISS solution?

Except garbage collector, what else makes Java a non real time programming language

Why are structs/arrays zero based?

Why is the "kill" command called so?

Why do programmers write closed source applications and then make them free?

Should I tell someone that their commit caused a regression?

Which is the better: a <= b or a < b+1

What's the difference between fault, error and defect?

How to get better at testing your own code

Drawbacks of code kata

Should we design programs to randomly kill themselves?

A large part of my code has a major design flaw. Finish it off or fix it now?

Is the carriage-return char considered obsolete

Isn't class scope purely for organization?

Pair programming when driver and observer have different skill level and experience

What are the typical naming conventions for OO C public and private functions?

OO best practices for C programs

What hurts maintainability?

I hate one of our coding standards and it drives me insane, how to process it?

Force users to update to the latest version of my app on the Google Play Store

What's wrong with circular references?

typedefs and #defines