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Scott Whitlock

By day I'm a Professional Engineer, currently working as a .NET software developer.

I also wrote and maintain an open source extensible application framework called SoapBox Core, and an open source C# library for communicating with Insteon home automation devices called FluentDwelling.

I have decided to stop contributing to this community because it has become a site more concerned with nitpicking and rules than with allowing programmers to help other programmers.

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298 Why do ads for s/w engineers always say they “offer a fast-paced environment”? Mar 17 '11
110 How much help should I give during technical interviews? Aug 2 '12
76 Is it OK to split long functions and methods into smaller ones even though they won't be called by anything else? Apr 24 '13
72 Is it better to return NULL or empty values from functions/methods where the return value is not present? Nov 17 '11
70 Is it possible to rewrite every line of an open source project in a slightly different way, and use it in a closed source project? Jun 24 '11
68 How should I remember what I was doing and why on a project three months back? Jul 22 '14
54 Are By-Design “Bugs” a Bad Sign? Sep 1 '11
50 Leaving intentional bugs in code for testers to find Jan 28 '15
37 *Code owner* system: is it an efficient way? Sep 14 '11
36 What's a good, concise way to explain the dangers of copy-paste programming to non-programmers? Mar 29 '11
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