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James Youngman

I'm a software engineer at a large Internet services company.

I've been a GNU maintainer since 1997 (working mainly on findutils, CSSC, coreutils and gnulib), and primarily work in C++ (though I've also done a lot of C and Python). I was previously a contributor to the POSIX standard.

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146 Is it wrong to use a boolean parameter to determine behavior? May 9 '12
16 What is the origin of the C Preprocessor? Feb 6 '16
11 Coming up with tokens for a lexer Feb 23 '12
10 How much experience on average should a Sr. developer have to be competent with a framework or library? Feb 20 '12
10 Thinking skills to be a good programmer Jun 2 '12
8 Should I modify an entity with many parameters or with the entity itself? Jun 24 '12
8 How to know if I'm slow or fast at programming? Feb 6 '16
7 Does this BSD-like license achieve what I want it to? Jul 14 '12
7 Which is a better design pattern for a database wrapper: Save as you go or Save when you're done? Apr 3 '12
6 Should I return iterators or more sophisticated objects? May 27 '12
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