User Jason Baker

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Are there any famous one-man-army programmers?

answered Feb 9, 2009 at 20:49

39 votes

Should I point out spelling/grammar related mistakes in someone's code?

answered Dec 28, 2010 at 5:01

34 votes

As a practitioner, why should I care about Haskell? What is a monad and why do I need it?

answered Jan 22, 2011 at 6:05

28 votes

The Art of Computer Programming - To read or not to read?

answered Nov 5, 2010 at 20:41

27 votes

What are the set of skills that every programmer graduating from college should have?

answered Nov 27, 2010 at 9:50

26 votes

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How to avoid to be employed by companies which are candidates to DailyWTF stories?

answered Dec 31, 2010 at 5:36

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How to determine if a class meets the single responsibility principle?

answered Jun 28, 2012 at 19:16

21 votes

Abstraction: The War between solving the problem and a general solution

answered Dec 31, 2010 at 22:59

19 votes

Vertical alignment: yea or nay?

answered Dec 26, 2010 at 0:43

18 votes

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Coworker that detrimentally picks on every minutia

answered Nov 29, 2010 at 11:23

18 votes

Why do large IT projects tend to fail or have big cost/schedule overruns?

answered Nov 26, 2010 at 7:39

16 votes

Why aren't databases integrated as a language feature?

answered Dec 3, 2010 at 5:58

15 votes

Organizing uncommented, dirty code?

answered Dec 4, 2010 at 8:32

15 votes

What are the pros and cons of a language using whitespace vs. {}'s to indicate scope?

answered Nov 2, 2010 at 2:41

14 votes

What's so bad about creative coding?

answered Dec 5, 2010 at 5:56

14 votes

Declarative programming vs. Imperative programming

answered Dec 31, 2010 at 2:56

13 votes

What popular "best practices" are not always best, and why?

answered Nov 29, 2010 at 20:00

13 votes

Programming with ADD/ADHD

answered Dec 31, 2008 at 1:17

12 votes

how do early stage startups hire ninja programmers

answered Nov 8, 2010 at 22:02

11 votes

What do you wish language designers paid attention to?

answered Jan 4, 2011 at 19:55

11 votes

Making money with Open Source as a developer?

answered Oct 13, 2008 at 0:10

10 votes

Why does Garbage Collection only sweep the heap?

answered Oct 7, 2011 at 18:05

10 votes

How can a Right-Brainer Deal with Massive Left-Brainer Code?

answered Dec 14, 2010 at 2:17

9 votes

Is individual code ownership important?

answered Jan 4, 2011 at 2:01

9 votes

Interesting or unique types in programming languages?

answered Jan 25, 2011 at 9:21

9 votes

How old is "too old"?

answered Nov 8, 2010 at 22:21

8 votes

How to review code that you do not understand?

answered Jan 7, 2011 at 0:33

7 votes

How to improve skills in software architecture

answered Nov 26, 2010 at 4:43

7 votes

Python and only Python for almost any programming tasks!

answered Nov 2, 2010 at 8:31

6 votes

I don't know C. And why should I learn it?

answered Nov 15, 2010 at 21:34

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Are there any famous one-man-army programmers?

Should I point out spelling/grammar related mistakes in someone's code?

As a practitioner, why should I care about Haskell? What is a monad and why do I need it?

The Art of Computer Programming - To read or not to read?

What are the set of skills that every programmer graduating from college should have?

How to avoid to be employed by companies which are candidates to DailyWTF stories?

How to determine if a class meets the single responsibility principle?

Abstraction: The War between solving the problem and a general solution

Vertical alignment: yea or nay?

Coworker that detrimentally picks on every minutia

Why do large IT projects tend to fail or have big cost/schedule overruns?

Why aren't databases integrated as a language feature?

Organizing uncommented, dirty code?

What are the pros and cons of a language using whitespace vs. {}'s to indicate scope?

What's so bad about creative coding?

Declarative programming vs. Imperative programming

What popular "best practices" are not always best, and why?

Programming with ADD/ADHD

how do early stage startups hire ninja programmers

What do you wish language designers paid attention to?

Making money with Open Source as a developer?

Why does Garbage Collection only sweep the heap?

How can a Right-Brainer Deal with Massive Left-Brainer Code?

Is individual code ownership important?

Interesting or unique types in programming languages?

How old is "too old"?

How to review code that you do not understand?

How to improve skills in software architecture

Python and only Python for almost any programming tasks!

I don't know C. And why should I learn it?