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257 votes
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What is the advantage of little endian format?

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How do you debug without an IDE?

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How and why to decide between naming methods with "get" and "find" prefixes

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What does "recursive" mean for a program which processes files and directories?

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Low Latency Unix/Linux

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Why use getters only as opposed to marking things final?

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What is the best way to handle product versioning and branching of long term projects?

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Given that I voluntarily choose not to implement virtual memory in my kernel, how would the memory-management-unit work?

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Is there a language that allows this syntax: add(elements)at(index);

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Outsourcing Quality Assurance and Testing

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Minimum billable time unit - industry standard for contract programming?

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Introducing functional programming into your development environment

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Math library methods in Google's Go Programming Language

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Is this XOR value swap algorithm still in use or useful

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Class as first-class object

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Functional as a first language

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Reasons for removal of function types in Java 8

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Common Lisp Implementations - threading and multiplatform?

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Is it wise to include something like OpenSSL or GnuTLS with a project in a repository?

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Functional language with C-like syntax

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Best online reference guide for gcc

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Functional Programming on the rise?

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Are the different available programming languages redundant?

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Why don't modern libraries use OOP

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How to make custom libraries accessible?

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Why doesn't the HTML\DOM specification allow hyperlinks to set an accept header?

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

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What do I need to consider when using code under the Apache License in an application submitted to Mac App Store?

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Do functional programming languages have more opportunity to do compile time optimization?

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Why do programmers still use mailing lists?