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How can I find own replacement when the company wants someone far less experienced?
I told the company I work for that I want to phase myself out, but that I would stick around for a couple months before applying anywhere to help in the recruitment of my replacement. I offered this because I am the sole web developer and I didn't…
JD Isaacks
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What are combinators and how are they applied to programming projects? (practical explanation)
What are combinators?
I'm looking for:
a practical explanation
examples of how they are used
examples of how combinators improve the quality/generality of code
I'm not looking for:
explanations of combinators that don't help me get work done…
user39685
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Is object pooling a deprecated technique?
I am very familiar with the concept of object pooling and I always try to use it as much as possible.
Additionally I always thought that object pooling is the standard norm as I have observed that Java itself as well as the other frameworks use…
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Should a developer also act as a tester?
We're a scrum team of 3 developers, 1 designer, the scrum master, and the product owner. However, we don't have official tester in our team. A problem that is always with us, is that, testing the application and passing those tests and removing bugs…
Saeed Neamati
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Why does a computer science degree matter to a professional programmer?
I have a degree in computer science. It has been great for opening doors, getting a job. As far as helping me in the professional field of C# .NET programming (the most popular platform and language in the area I work if not the entire united…
P.Brian.Mackey
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Dealing with frustration when things don't work
You ever try to implement something simple but for some strange reason it doesn't work.
So you try a possible solution but then something else doesn't work. You keep trying different workarounds but every time something different isn't working.…
JD Isaacks
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Does it ever make sense to use more concurrent processes than processor cores?
I've got some process in Go. Here's an example counting lines in text, though the question is meant to be far more general than this particular example:
func lineCount(s string) int {
count := 0
for _, c := range s {
if c == '\n' {
…
TheEnvironmentalist
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Altering author names in MIT license
Some years ago I wrote and released some software under the MIT license.
Recently I noticed that one (or some?) of the forks have altered the leading copyright notice at the top of the license, i.e.
Copyright (c) 2014
MIT…
purplelulu
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&& and || are not logical but conditional operators?
I am a bit confused by the MSDN C# documentation which states that & and | are logical operators and that && and || are conditional operators.
I keep calling &&, || and ! logical operators, so I am wrong?
John V
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Earning extra cash as a programmer
I work as fulltime programmer and have a pretty well paid job for the country where I live, but I could do with a bit of extra cash at the moment (wife nagging about new kitchen etc.).
I'd be interested in taking on small projects in my spare time.…
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Should I define the relations between tables in the database or just in code?
In my experience, many of the projects I have read in the past didn't have relationship definitions in the database, instead they only defined them in the source code. So I'm wondering what are the advantages/disadvantages of defining relations…
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Why does the relational model for a database matter?
I am approaching a project where I'll be having to implement a database with my boss; we're a very small start up so the work environment is deeply personal.
He had given me one of the company databases before and it completely went against what I…
8protons
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Why are large amounts of magic numbers acceptable in CSS and SVGs?
Often times I see questions on the Hot Network Questions list like this that basically ask "how do I draw this arbitrary shape in CSS". Invariably the answer is a couple of blocks of CSS or SVG data with a bunch of seemingly random hard-coded values…
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Trying to understand P vs NP vs NP Complete vs NP Hard
I am trying to understand these classifications and why they exist. Is my understanding right? If not, what?
P is polynomial complexity, or O(nk) for some non-negative real number k, such as O(1), O(n1/2), O(n2), O(n3), etc. If a problem belongs to…
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Reusing a merged branch, good practice?
Currently, I used to create a new branch each time I have to add a new feature to my application.
When my feature is finished and functional, I merge it with the master branch.
But later, when I need to update this feature (like an improvement) is…
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