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John R. Strohm
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Retired very senior embedded real-time systems programmer (Texas law is very picky about the use of the term "engineer"), unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Congress, and unreconstructed Cold Warrior.

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Dealing with engineers that frequently leave their jobs
Feb 4, 2011
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Testing multi-threaded race conditions
Apr 25, 2013
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What happens to garbage in C++?
Jun 16, 2016
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Why is it a good idea for "lower" application layers not to be aware of "higher" ones?
May 20, 2013
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Why are so many languages passed by value?
Jun 20, 2012
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Where did the notion of "one return only" come from?
Nov 9, 2011
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Professional way to produce a large problem without filling up huge arrays: C++, free memory from part of an array
Jan 24, 2017
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Why does Donald Knuth write TAOCP using assembly language?
Apr 26, 2013
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Why are statements in many programming languages terminated by semicolons?
Mar 13, 2012
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What did programmers do before variable scope, where everything is global?
Oct 23, 2012
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Higher up doesn't carry around their security badge and asks others to let them in. What should I do about this security issue?
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Why must I put a semicolon at the end of class declaration in C++?
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Appropriate to ask a recruiter to go back and negotiate salary again?
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I just found out that my recent promotion comes with an unexpected 24/7/365 on-call status
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First job in an office, very small company, am I screwing up by overdressing?

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