Robert Harvey

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Why use a database instead of just saving your data to disk?

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Are bad programming practices typical within the software industry?

Sep 21, 2017

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How can I tell in an interview if a programmer is passionate about programming?

Jul 25, 2011

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Is there a method for differentiating informative comments from commented out code?

Jul 5, 2019

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How does an event listener work?

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Does using == in JavaScript ever make sense?

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When using the Single Responsibility Principle, what constitutes a "responsibility?"

Mar 27, 2017

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Why does it matter that HTML and CSS are not programming languages?

Dec 19, 2010

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On developing deep programming knowledge

Jul 11, 2011

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What differentiates the exceptional programmers from the really good ones?

Sep 17, 2010

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Is there a difference between fibers, coroutines and green threads and if that is so what is it?

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Why would you ever 'await' a method, and then immediately interrogate its return value?

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Why is the Unix linker called "ld"

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Why is unit testing private methods considered as bad practice?

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