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34 Questions

When is it a good idea to force garbage collection?

Why should I use "functional operations" instead of a for loop?

How does branch prediction work, if you still have to check for the conditions?

Why shouldn't I be using public variables in my Java class? [duplicate]

Why can't a compiler avoid importing a header file twice by its own?

Can a recursive function have iterations/loops?

How to discriminate from two nodes with identical frequencies in a Huffman's tree?

How to execute a Ruby file in Java, capable of calling functions from the Java program and receiving primitive-type results?

Have there been disputes when software identifies genders with a boolean? [closed]

Is there any disadvantage to using Eclipse Collections exclusively?

How to create a manager class without global variables nor singletons?

Making things just work and then improve them, or attempt to make them "perfect" from the beginning?

How is it called when you define constants that simply refer to a large namespace? [closed]

How to refactor my design, if it seems to require multiple inheritance?

What to do if my own opensource code greatly resembles another project's code?

What are the differences between programming languages? [closed]

Why create a Huffman tree per character instead of a Node?

Does it matter the direction of a Huffman's tree child node?

Does it make sense to create a Ruby wrapper to reference a Java object that does exactly the same thing?

How do I know when should I package my classes in Ruby?

Is the Observer pattern adequate for this kind of scenario?

Why do some projects have getters and setters for public instance variables?

Ruby using the Gosu framework: why it runs slow first time?

Can a process that needs 15 MB run given a machine with 10 MB of physical memory and 10 of virtual?

File structure for storing pixels that changed from one image to another

How should I compress a file with multiple bytes that are the same with Huffman coding?

Puzzle solving: Minimum number of steps to achieve a goal

Why do some websites include the "page name" in the URL?

Calculating physical address given only an offset for my process

Does inserting/removing random characters in a string count as cryptography?