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S.Lott

Member for 12 years, 11 months
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Norfolk, VA

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When is it appropriate to not unit test?

answered Apr 8, 2011 at 16:06

83 votes

How to handle people who lie on their resume

answered Feb 19, 2009 at 19:04

81 votes

How to explain why multi-threading is difficult

answered Jun 2, 2011 at 10:17

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What should take precedence: YAGNI or Good Design?

answered Sep 16, 2011 at 12:46

57 votes

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Should I store False as Null in a boolean database field?

answered Feb 6, 2012 at 20:01

57 votes

How was programming done 20 years ago?

answered Mar 15, 2011 at 13:03

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What to do about team member who threatens to leave all the time and is difficult to work with?

answered Jul 6, 2011 at 19:03

55 votes

How do I deal with the need to know multiple programming languages?

answered Jan 11, 2011 at 2:14

55 votes

Does TDD really work for complex projects?

answered Jan 31, 2011 at 12:57

51 votes

How can I make refactoring a priority for my team?

answered May 17, 2011 at 20:04

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How to suggest using an ORM instead of stored procedures?

answered May 11, 2011 at 15:34

44 votes

How can we make agile enjoyable for developers that like to personally, independently own large chunks from start to finish

answered Jun 1, 2011 at 12:26

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Encouraging software engineers to track time

answered Jun 3, 2011 at 13:26

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Can daily reports decrease a developer's productivity?

answered Sep 13, 2011 at 2:48

38 votes

How to become a "faster" programmer?

answered Sep 11, 2009 at 15:05

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TDD/Tests too much an overhead/maintenance burden?

answered Jan 31, 2011 at 22:14

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How to determine if a programming language is verbose or terse?

answered Feb 21, 2011 at 15:25

34 votes

What is an integration test exactly?

answered Feb 15, 2011 at 19:57

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Dealing with frustration when things don't work

answered Feb 2, 2011 at 21:32

33 votes

How can I convince cowboy programmers to use source control?

answered Nov 28, 2011 at 22:39

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Emotional attachment to code

answered Apr 5, 2011 at 13:19

32 votes

Why was dependency injection pattern not included in the Gang of four?

answered Feb 20, 2012 at 10:56

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Were you able to implement design patterns in tight deadlines?

answered Jul 22, 2011 at 19:24

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Is saying "JSON Object" redundant?

answered May 11, 2011 at 19:40

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What are some really tough programming books?

answered May 3, 2011 at 2:19

29 votes

Decompilers - Myth or Fact?

answered Mar 4, 2011 at 14:42

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How should developer performance be measured?

answered Mar 28, 2011 at 10:12

28 votes

State machines vs threads

answered Sep 23, 2011 at 10:08

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Abstraction: The War between solving the problem and a general solution

answered Dec 31, 2010 at 22:52

27 votes

How important is a good coding style for the decision to hire a programmer?

answered Jun 3, 2011 at 10:04

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