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How are mutexes implemented?

language-agnostic concurrency mutex
asked 2009-09-28T08:01:42.473
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How do you return two values from a single method?

language-agnostic return-value
asked 2009-09-23T20:36:48.650
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6
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What are greenfield and brownfield applications?

language-agnostic terminology
asked 2009-09-22T12:58:12.053
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How do you know when to use fold-left and when to use fold-right?

language-agnostic functional-programming fold
asked 2009-09-18T19:22:40.957
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Why can you only prepend to lists in functional languages?

language-agnostic functional-programming
asked 2009-09-16T20:44:45.577
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Any valid reason for code duplication?

c++ language-agnostic code-duplication
asked 2009-09-01T05:28:34.140
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Are circular class dependencies bad from a coding style point of view?

language-agnostic oop dependencies
asked 2009-08-31T07:49:01.373
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What is a predicate?

language-agnostic
asked 2009-08-27T22:09:59.537
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18
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What are multi-threading DOs and DONTs?

multithreading language-agnostic
asked 2009-08-24T10:36:05.163
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Learning garbage collection theory

language-agnostic garbage-collection theory
asked 2009-08-23T14:00:34.500
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8
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How to correct the user input (Kind of google "did you mean?")

language-agnostic nlp spell-checking information-retrieval autosuggest
asked 2009-08-16T17:03:28.427
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What is an ORM, how does it work, and how should I use one?

database orm language-agnostic
asked 2009-08-14T19:03:59.857
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What should NOT be under source control?

language-agnostic version-control
asked 2009-08-13T18:57:53.420
25
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5
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Finding points on a line with a given distance

language-agnostic graphics vector lines points
asked 2009-08-09T02:32:30.993
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13
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What is a Type?

language-agnostic types
asked 2009-08-05T13:34:32.660
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"Stop words" list for English?

language-agnostic indexing filtering stop-words nlp
asked 2009-08-02T07:19:16.323
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7
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Explaining "Web Application Developer" vs. "Web Site Designer" to prospective clients

language-agnostic
asked 2009-08-01T18:35:33.293
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8
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Paint me a Rainbow

language-agnostic colors rgb
asked 2009-07-31T09:59:00.133
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10
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Do formal methods of program verfication have a place in industry?

language-agnostic logic formal-verification
asked 2009-07-28T21:20:20.497
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2
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Practical application of "Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes, and Barbed Wire"?

language-agnostic functional-programming theory
asked 2009-07-27T18:54:43.160
10
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15
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Real world uses for obfuscation

language-agnostic obfuscation
asked 2009-07-22T21:10:07.617
35
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6
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Resources to learn bitwise programming?

c++ language-agnostic
asked 2009-07-22T20:12:44.237
9
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6
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Algorithm to determine the effective "phase difference" between two signals with different frequencies?

algorithm language-agnostic signal-processing frequency
asked 2009-07-21T07:36:09.297
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5
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Difference between a linear problem and a non-linear problem? Essence of Dot-Product and Kernel trick

algorithm language-agnostic math artificial-intelligence machine-learning
asked 2009-07-18T20:43:47.440
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12
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For what kind of problems do you write a DSL?

language-agnostic dsl
asked 2009-07-10T12:27:32.277
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25
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Are regular expressions worth the hassle?

regex language-agnostic
asked 2009-07-08T14:05:05.400
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14
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How do you deal with your past programming atrocities?

language-agnostic
asked 2009-07-07T02:52:16.850
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9
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Algorithm to find a number which occurs only once in an array, given all the other numbers occur twice

algorithm language-agnostic
asked 2009-07-07T01:43:12.903
18
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13
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How prevalent is UTF-8 really?

language-agnostic utf-8 internationalization
asked 2009-06-26T14:50:41.317
10
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2
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How do I convert a stereo wav to mono

language-agnostic audio
asked 2009-06-25T14:00:14.280
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10
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How should I Test a Genetic Algorithm

unit-testing language-agnostic genetic-algorithm non-deterministic
asked 2009-06-24T15:26:08.577
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Code Golf: Quickly Build List of Keywords from Text, Including # of Instances

code-golf text-parsing language-agnostic rosetta-stone
asked 2009-06-24T13:12:52.400
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5
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Storage of many log files

database language-agnostic logging
asked 2009-06-24T08:11:33.710
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14
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Evaluate dice rolling notation strings

language-agnostic dice expression-evaluation
asked 2009-06-23T09:14:40.483
10
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9
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Java Reflection and the pain in Refactoring

java language-agnostic reflection refactoring
asked 2009-06-22T15:41:06.140
11
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1
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RS-232 serial snoop tools for protocol development / debugging

language-agnostic serial-port snoop
asked 2009-06-21T04:09:40.363
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What are the nicknames for common programming special characters?

language-agnostic
asked 2009-06-18T02:47:31.247
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9
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How to develop and test an app that sends emails (without filling someone's mailbox with test data)?

language-agnostic email testing smtp
asked 2009-06-17T12:21:48.563
21
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11
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Trouble coming up with good names for functions

language-agnostic coding-style
asked 2009-06-11T03:08:10.097
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7
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Differences between vector, set, and tuple

language-agnostic vector tuples set
asked 2009-06-09T22:59:47.573
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8
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memcached expiration time

language-agnostic caching memcached
asked 2009-06-09T02:16:15.350
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votes
7
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O(N log N) Complexity - Similar to linear?

language-agnostic complexity-theory quicksort
asked 2009-06-07T18:59:16.417
52
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5
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Create your own MD5 collisions

algorithm language-agnostic hash
asked 2009-06-01T03:50:03.163
18
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9
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What data type is recommended for ID columns?

language-agnostic database-design types primary-key database-agnostic
asked 2009-05-31T14:12:50.010
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34
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Performance optimization strategies of last resort

performance optimization language-agnostic
asked 2009-05-29T14:26:59.977
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7
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sorting algorithm where pairwise-comparison can return more information than -1, 0, +1

algorithm language-agnostic sorting comparison
asked 2009-05-27T02:02:12.380
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15
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What is Cyclomatic Complexity?

language-agnostic architecture cyclomatic-complexity
asked 2009-05-26T16:43:52.083
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Consequences of doing "good enough" software

language-agnostic
asked 2009-05-24T11:22:51.550
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How to convince your fellow developer to write short methods?

language-agnostic metrics
asked 2009-05-19T09:57:40.383
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6
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Is there an edit distance algorithm that takes "chunk transposition" into account?

algorithm language-agnostic levenshtein-distance edit-distance
asked 2009-05-18T14:44:34.297
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