User JoJo - Software Engineering Stack Exchange

JoJo

Member for 12 years, 6 months
Last seen more than 4 years ago

United States

13 Questions

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46 votes

7 answers

28k views

When would polling for events be better than using observer pattern?

asked Aug 22, 2011 at 7:27

21 votes

7 answers

3k views

Should a function use premature returns or wrap everything in if clauses? [duplicate]

asked Aug 29, 2011 at 23:09

14 votes

8 answers

593 views

Styling compound AND / OR if statements

asked Jun 16, 2011 at 22:12

10 votes

4 answers

2k views

How can a child state machine relinquish control back to the parent state machine?

asked Feb 9, 2012 at 18:35

10 votes

5 answers

26k views

What are the advantages of the delegate pattern over the observer pattern?

asked Dec 2, 2012 at 0:06

7 votes

3 answers

1k views

What are the disadvantages of naming things alphabetically?

asked Apr 7, 2012 at 23:17

7 votes

2 answers

4k views

Should all, none, or some overridden methods call Super?

asked Jun 24, 2011 at 20:45

6 votes

2 answers

4k views

How to name a private method in a language which doesn't support privacy?

asked Jan 26, 2012 at 0:40

6 votes

1 answer

546 views

"Super" vs "protected method" for running common code

asked May 17, 2011 at 22:00

3 votes

2 answers

945 views

How do I reuse a state machine in a slightly different way?

asked Jul 6, 2012 at 20:11

2 votes

1 answer

293 views

What does it mean to drop support for Internet Explorer 6? [closed]

asked Aug 20, 2011 at 18:19

1 vote

3 answers

3k views

What design pattern do you use to support graceful fallback on old platforms?

asked May 31, 2012 at 21:00

1 vote

1 answer

267 views

Observer pattern for unpredictable observation time

asked Jun 23, 2012 at 5:27