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John R. Strohm

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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284 Dealing with engineers that frequently leave their jobs Feb 4 '11
87 Testing multi-threaded race conditions Apr 25 '13
82 What happens to garbage in C++? Jun 16 '16
63 Why is it a good idea for “lower” application layers not to be aware of “higher” ones? May 20 '13
58 Professional way to produce a large problem without filling up huge arrays: C++, free memory from part of an array Jan 24 '17
56 Why does Donald Knuth write TAOCP using assembly language? Apr 26 '13
55 Why are so many languages passed by value? Jun 20 '12
54 Why are statements in many programming languages terminated by semicolons? Mar 13 '12
54 Where did the notion of “one return only” come from? Nov 9 '11
53 What did programmers do before variable scope, where everything is global? Oct 23 '12
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