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Donal Fellows

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Is this a decent use-case for goto in C?

answered Jun 30, 2012 at 11:49

50 votes

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What does HATEOAS offer for discoverability and decoupling besides ability to change your URL structure more or less freely?

answered Apr 14, 2014 at 8:10

34 votes

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How does a movie theater seat booking system prevent multiple users from reserving the same seats?

answered Nov 3, 2011 at 11:12

28 votes

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What does "flatten" mean?

answered Apr 23, 2011 at 16:06

18 votes

Why is the factory method design pattern more useful than having classes and calling them individually?

answered Jun 6, 2013 at 8:10

17 votes

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Use my own GPL licensed code in a commercial product

answered Jun 26, 2012 at 12:51

15 votes

Why should main() be short?

answered Jun 20, 2011 at 21:43

13 votes

What lessons did you learn from a project which nearly/actually failed due to bad multithreading?

answered May 9, 2011 at 8:45

13 votes

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Is it possible to write application-level logic in an XML or plain text format?

answered Jan 12, 2012 at 11:09

13 votes

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REST API concepts

answered Jul 11, 2013 at 13:15

12 votes

What is the point of having every service class have an interface?

answered May 26, 2012 at 14:39

12 votes

Programming languages with a Lisp-like syntax extension mechanism

answered Sep 13, 2012 at 8:49

10 votes

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Why many programming languages have only 2 data-structures: arrays and hashes?

answered Mar 24, 2013 at 18:26

10 votes

How robust are Git commits when the power goes out?

answered May 16, 2014 at 20:13

9 votes

Frustration with Java Swing layout managers

answered Jan 18, 2013 at 23:11

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Where does Java get its SOA reputation from?

answered Aug 28, 2012 at 21:43

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What exactly is distributed computing?

answered Oct 19, 2011 at 8:40

8 votes

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Cloud computing cost savings for large enterprise

answered May 9, 2011 at 8:34

7 votes

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Planning development when academic research is involved

answered Jun 26, 2011 at 16:48

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How to refactor a method which breaks "The law of Demeter" principle?

answered Jun 30, 2012 at 0:22

7 votes

Can a random number generator ever produce different output given identical seeds?

answered Jul 15, 2013 at 5:52

7 votes

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Why is inheritance only defined at compile-time?

answered Jan 21, 2014 at 21:47

6 votes

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When is it beneficial to not use utf-8?

answered Mar 31, 2014 at 8:54

6 votes

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@Deprecated as of version x.y in JavaDoc

answered Feb 7, 2013 at 10:29

6 votes

Exercise for implementing design patterns

answered Apr 8, 2013 at 8:23

6 votes

Is there such a thing as a "when" statement?

answered Oct 16, 2011 at 18:01

6 votes

Dissidence between program leader and me, what should I do?

answered Apr 27, 2011 at 6:00

6 votes

What is the difference between Requirements Elicitation and Requirements Analysis in the real world?

answered Jan 4, 2011 at 22:39

5 votes

Is Python a good choice to develop UIs? If so, wxPython or Tkinter?

answered Jun 15, 2011 at 8:31

5 votes

Benefits of combining programming languages

answered Mar 26, 2013 at 11:32

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