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Developing a feature which sole purpose to be taken out?
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Are comments obsolete in favor of Generative AI?
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Should interface names begin with an "I" prefix?
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Why should I prefer composition over inheritance?
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Is it a bad practice to store large files (10 MB) in a database?
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Testing multi-threaded race conditions
Awarded Nov 21, 2023 at 11:05
What is a helper? Is it a design pattern? Is it an algorithm?
Awarded Nov 9, 2023 at 23:28
Is Agile the new micromanagement?
Awarded Oct 16, 2023 at 15:18
Why does C use the asterisk for pointers?
Awarded Oct 10, 2023 at 17:52
When to *not* use SOLID principles
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How often should I/do you make commits?
Awarded Sep 7, 2023 at 23:05
Is it better to return NULL or empty values from functions/methods where the return value is not present?
Awarded Aug 17, 2023 at 2:28
How to handle divide by zero in a language that doesn't support exceptions?
Awarded Aug 8, 2023 at 17:32
Should cookies be used in a RESTful API?
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What is a hack?
Awarded Jul 12, 2023 at 21:25
How can I convince cowboy programmers to use source control?
Awarded Jun 23, 2023 at 1:57
What is the point of unit tests?
Awarded Jun 16, 2023 at 22:27
Why is negative zero important?
Awarded Apr 12, 2023 at 12:36
Should a REST API return a 500 Internal Server Error to indicate that a query references an object that does not exist?
Awarded Mar 30, 2023 at 3:51
How does garbage collection compare to reference counting?
Awarded Mar 26, 2023 at 7:10
Why do we have to use break in switch?
Awarded Mar 5, 2023 at 11:40
When to use a Parser Combinator? When to use a Parser Generator?
Awarded Mar 1, 2023 at 16:35
What does "GPL with classpath exception" mean in practice?
Awarded Feb 25, 2023 at 5:45
How can lossless compression ever exist?
Awarded Feb 10, 2023 at 9:45
Why declare a variable in one line, and assign to it in the next?
Awarded Feb 3, 2023 at 1:34
Folder-by-type or Folder-by-feature
Awarded Dec 24, 2022 at 1:51
Is it better to return NULL or empty values from functions/methods where the return value is not present?
Awarded Dec 15, 2022 at 19:48
Best Practices To Create Error Codes Pattern For an Enterprise Project
Awarded Dec 6, 2022 at 8:51
Are classes with only a single (public) method a problem?
Awarded Oct 13, 2022 at 11:50
Is micro-optimisation important when coding?
Awarded Sep 19, 2022 at 18:26
Difference between a service class and a Helper class
Awarded Sep 16, 2022 at 8:19
What are the London and Chicago schools of TDD?
Awarded Sep 5, 2022 at 12:21
Why isn't Java more widely used for game development?
Awarded Aug 7, 2022 at 14:04
Should I return an HTTP 400 (Bad Request) status if a parameter is syntactically correct, but violates a business rule?
Awarded Jul 3, 2022 at 18:12
What is an integration test exactly?
Awarded Jun 20, 2022 at 13:51
What is the use of DTO instead of Entity?
Awarded May 30, 2022 at 18:06
Is technical debt management problem more of a culture issue or insight issue
Awarded May 8, 2022 at 4:05
Summarize changes (insertions and deletions) in Git
Awarded May 3, 2022 at 17:32
Why did memory-managed languages like Java, Javascript, and C# retain the `new` keyword?
Awarded Apr 14, 2022 at 22:46
What is the opposite of initialize (or init)?
Awarded Apr 14, 2022 at 8:25
Are there any design patterns that are unnecessary in dynamic languages like Python?
Awarded Apr 13, 2022 at 19:08
Working on a branch with a dependence on another branch that is being reviewed
Awarded Apr 6, 2022 at 10:07
Why do so many standards for JSON API response formats contain a "success" property in the response body instead of just using HTTP status codes?
Awarded Mar 25, 2022 at 20:50
Which way are downstream and upstream services?
Awarded Mar 9, 2022 at 0:50
Why is inheritance bad in a Person-Student model?
Awarded Feb 17, 2022 at 15:22
What "version naming convention" do you use?
Awarded Feb 14, 2022 at 0:56
Return considered harmful? Can code be functional without it?
Awarded Feb 11, 2022 at 20:06
What does 'Nightly Builds' mean?
Awarded Jan 17, 2022 at 8:27
REST API security Stored token vs JWT vs OAuth
Awarded Jan 7, 2022 at 20:25
How bad of an idea is it to use Python files as configuration files?
Awarded Dec 30, 2021 at 15:21
Why do so many hashed and encrypted strings end in an equals sign?
Awarded Dec 28, 2021 at 14:01
Is putting general-use functions in a "helpers" file an anti-pattern or code smell?
Awarded Dec 28, 2021 at 1:06
Are database unique indexes a mask on bad scripting?
Awarded Dec 2, 2021 at 20:02
Which HTTP verb should I use to trigger an action in a REST web service?
Awarded Dec 1, 2021 at 10:09
Is it the correct practice to keep more than 10 years old spaghetti legacy code untouched without refactoring at all in big product development?
Awarded Nov 25, 2021 at 17:40
If null is a billion dollar mistake, what is the solution to represent a non-initialized object?
Awarded Nov 11, 2021 at 10:40
Are null references really a bad thing?
Awarded Nov 9, 2021 at 15:11
Don't Use "Static" in C#?
Awarded Nov 5, 2021 at 18:12
When and for what purposes should the const keyword be used in C for variables?
Awarded Nov 2, 2021 at 22:36
What is the purpose of storing multiple lower resolution versions of the same original image?
Awarded Oct 28, 2021 at 10:27
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