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Karl Bielefeldt

I've written software for everything from network equipment to Apache helicopters. Now writing enterprise platform software in Scala, with some tools in Python, my eighth and ninth languages I've used professionally.

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326 Torvalds' quote about good programmer Aug 31 '12
198 Is it always a best practice to write a function for anything that needs to repeat twice? Jan 13 '15
169 Is there such a thing as having too many unit tests? May 3 '17
161 How do quick & dirty programmers know they got it right? Dec 13 '11
145 Demonstrate bad code to client? Nov 12 '12
130 Why aren't user-defined operators more common? Dec 29 '12
112 Is type safety worth the trade-offs? Mar 18 '11
107 My office wants infinite branch merges as policy; what other options do we have? Dec 19 '16
103 Is using Lambda expressions whenever possible in java good practice? Jan 27 '17
101 Throw exception or let code fail Jan 23 '15
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