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Full disclosure: I have a degree in linguistics, and so I am partial to descriptivist approaches to questions of usage. For me, assertions of correctness or incorrectness that are not reflective of actual usage are highly questionable.

I am a native speaker of American English.

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Why is there still case sensitivity in some programming languages?
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Do you dress formally or casually for a programming interview?
May 18, 2011
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Do I need to go to a big-name university?
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Storing plaintext passwords for detecting fraud
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Ruby on Rails and DRY
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Is there a correct gender-neutral singular pronoun ("his" vs. "her" vs. "their")?
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How do I tell if a variable has a numeric value in Perl?
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How to pass variable number of arguments to a PHP function
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"Let's" vs. "lets": which is correct?

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