User John R. Strohm

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Dealing with engineers that frequently leave their jobs

answered Feb 4, 2011 at 4:45

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Testing multi-threaded race conditions

answered Apr 25, 2013 at 14:42

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What happens to garbage in C++?

answered Jun 16, 2016 at 14:29

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Why is it a good idea for "lower" application layers not to be aware of "higher" ones?

answered May 20, 2013 at 18:46

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Why are so many languages passed by value?

answered Jun 20, 2012 at 0:22

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Where did the notion of "one return only" come from?

answered Nov 9, 2011 at 13:46

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Professional way to produce a large problem without filling up huge arrays: C++, free memory from part of an array

answered Jan 24, 2017 at 14:28

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Why does Donald Knuth write TAOCP using assembly language?

answered Apr 26, 2013 at 13:53

55 votes

Why are statements in many programming languages terminated by semicolons?

answered Mar 13, 2012 at 14:50

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What did programmers do before variable scope, where everything is global?

answered Oct 23, 2012 at 16:45

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What is proven as a good maximum length of a function?

answered Dec 19, 2010 at 9:45

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How to write a very basic compiler

answered Sep 20, 2012 at 18:25

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Why do so many languages treat numbers starting with 0 as octal?

answered Jan 14, 2014 at 14:40

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Why do programming languages allow shadowing/hiding of variables and functions?

answered Oct 21, 2013 at 13:11

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

answered Dec 28, 2010 at 5:02

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How to deal with clients that only gives you huge flow of "how to do this", but can't say "what and why" they need?

answered Nov 6, 2014 at 4:17

23 votes

Drag-n-drop programming - would it fly?

answered Dec 5, 2010 at 18:29

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Does modular programming affect computation time?

answered Jul 29, 2013 at 15:32

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Changing the license in a fork from GPL to GPL compatible?

answered Apr 1, 2013 at 16:51

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Which are the alternatives to using a stack to represent function call semantics?

answered Jun 7, 2013 at 12:24

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Is this statement from Knuth's fundamental algorithms still applicable today?

answered Jan 9, 2013 at 8:29

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Why is there no Fortran standard library?

answered Feb 1, 2011 at 13:18

18 votes

Time to drop Emacs and vi?

answered Mar 25, 2011 at 12:11

15 votes

How to rewrite from scratch a code for which I own the copyright so I can use it on my job without losing the rights to the first version?

answered Mar 14, 2013 at 1:06

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Why normalization improves numerical precision?

answered Sep 23, 2013 at 15:30

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When should pointers be checked for NULL in C?

answered Feb 6, 2013 at 0:09

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Is the algorithm more important than the programming language?

answered Apr 25, 2013 at 17:46

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Will we go back(?) to fixed-point arithmetic in the near future?

answered Jan 17, 2014 at 12:35

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Sort algorithms that work on large amount of data

answered Jan 3, 2012 at 19:13

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What benefit is there to using recursive binary search over iterative binary search or vice versa?

answered Feb 18, 2015 at 21:35

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Dealing with engineers that frequently leave their jobs

Testing multi-threaded race conditions

What happens to garbage in C++?

Why is it a good idea for "lower" application layers not to be aware of "higher" ones?

Why are so many languages passed by value?

Where did the notion of "one return only" come from?

Professional way to produce a large problem without filling up huge arrays: C++, free memory from part of an array

Why does Donald Knuth write TAOCP using assembly language?

Why are statements in many programming languages terminated by semicolons?

What did programmers do before variable scope, where everything is global?

What is proven as a good maximum length of a function?

How to write a very basic compiler

Why do so many languages treat numbers starting with 0 as octal?

Why do programming languages allow shadowing/hiding of variables and functions?

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

How to deal with clients that only gives you huge flow of "how to do this", but can't say "what and why" they need?

Drag-n-drop programming - would it fly?

Does modular programming affect computation time?

Changing the license in a fork from GPL to GPL compatible?

Which are the alternatives to using a stack to represent function call semantics?

Is this statement from Knuth's fundamental algorithms still applicable today?

Why is there no Fortran standard library?

Time to drop Emacs and vi?

How to rewrite from scratch a code for which I own the copyright so I can use it on my job without losing the rights to the first version?

Why normalization improves numerical precision?

When should pointers be checked for NULL in C?

Is the algorithm more important than the programming language?

Will we go back(?) to fixed-point arithmetic in the near future?

Sort algorithms that work on large amount of data

What benefit is there to using recursive binary search over iterative binary search or vice versa?