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Telastyn
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144 votes
8 answers
9k views

How do I get people to stop bikeshedding (focusing on trivialities)?

43 votes
13 answers
7k views

I am making 4-5x more story points than average, but producing bugs at half the rate. Graphs say it's 2x more bugs, how to deal with that?

27 votes
4 answers
3k views

Is there a good reason to make pure functions non-public?

26 votes
6 answers
6k views

Why implement a lexer as a 2d array and a giant switch?

26 votes
5 answers
3k views

How to explain why design choices are good? [closed]

24 votes
3 answers
8k views

How can I diagnose async/await deadlocks?

17 votes
3 answers
675 views

How to test and optimize when you can't reproduce the environment?

16 votes
3 answers
29k views

Multiple classes with the same name, but different namespaces?

6 votes
3 answers
434 views

How to deal with outlier programmers during sprint planning?

5 votes
3 answers
2k views

Should you write automated tests to check that data is correct (the contents of config files, databases, etc.)?

4 votes
3 answers
2k views

Branching strategy for parallel development that won't be in the same release?

3 votes
1 answer
114 views

PHI, NoSQL, and searching

3 votes
2 answers
468 views

If an entity is composed, is it still a god object?

2 votes
1 answer
198 views

How should common interfaces be shared across source control repositories?

1 vote
1 answer
275 views

Should programmers prefer making wide libraries or thin libraries?

0 votes
0 answers
62 views

If a delegate contains a tail call request, what happens?

-1 votes
1 answer
204 views

How to get people to actually do code reviews promptly? [duplicate]