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In git, is it a bad idea to create a tag with the same name as a deleted branch?
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In Scrum, why don't you use aging and guaranteed time slice to prevent outdated tasks in the backlog?
Awarded Jan 21, 2024 at 6:35
How to implement a safe password history
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How to avoid throwing vexing exceptions?
Awarded Jan 8, 2024 at 14:00
What do you do with branches you've abandoned?
Awarded Jan 5, 2024 at 17:05
Why is the term "string" so often abbreviated as "sz"?
Awarded Dec 31, 2023 at 11:33
Why isn't there generic batching syscall in Linux/BSD?
Awarded Dec 30, 2023 at 12:36
Why can't an xml comment contain two hyphens
Awarded Dec 12, 2023 at 1:25
How to make Scrum less stressful
Awarded Nov 24, 2023 at 6:51
Downsides of GNU LGPL v3 vs. GNU LGPL v2.1?
Awarded Nov 19, 2023 at 15:17
Why is REST commonly used instead of RPC-like mechanisms in web applications?
Awarded Nov 19, 2023 at 11:16
What is the name for the non-extension part of a filename? [closed]
Awarded Nov 18, 2023 at 22:17
Should I not show all my skills? [closed]
Awarded Nov 13, 2023 at 22:05
Where should I do localization (server-side or client-side)?
Awarded Nov 5, 2023 at 14:15
Why do we put private member functions in headers?
Awarded Oct 27, 2023 at 22:36
How can we avoid extremely complex configurations in enterprise software?
Awarded Oct 21, 2023 at 10:06
Is our outsourced software vendor "Agile" or do they just not want to plan things?
Awarded Oct 18, 2023 at 9:05
Understanding the problem when things break in production
Awarded Oct 14, 2023 at 17:56
Why are off by one errors so common and what can we do to prevent them?
Awarded Oct 2, 2023 at 7:05
What is the reason for using lowercase for the first word in a local variable (eg, employeeCount, firstName)
Awarded Sep 23, 2023 at 17:11
Java serialization - advantages and disadvantages, use or avoid? [closed]
Awarded Sep 21, 2023 at 18:28
If a variable has getter and setter, should it be public?
Awarded Sep 18, 2023 at 15:05
What is a good way to indicate that a number is not something you can count with?
Awarded Sep 13, 2023 at 18:25
When to *not* use SOLID principles
Awarded Sep 13, 2023 at 15:52
How much time should you spend planning a commit before writing code?
Awarded Sep 12, 2023 at 9:26
How often is seq used in Haskell production code?
Awarded Sep 11, 2023 at 14:55
Is it a bad habit to (over)use reflection?
Awarded Sep 6, 2023 at 0:03
Refactoring constructor that has too many parameters [duplicate]
Awarded Aug 30, 2023 at 20:05
Software License: Open Source, but no distribution (for free or for profit)
Awarded Aug 24, 2023 at 7:56
Is there a canonical tutorial or book on functional programming concepts? [closed]
Awarded Aug 22, 2023 at 12:22
How to change the semantic version number when reverting the last major change
Awarded Aug 16, 2023 at 6:10
Will B-Trees and Other Data Structures Become Obsolete With The Advent of Solid State Drives?
Awarded Aug 4, 2023 at 21:42
Pitfalls of Domain Driven Design with Entity Framework
Awarded Aug 4, 2023 at 8:50
MVC: What is the difference between a model and a service?
Awarded Jul 23, 2023 at 21:08
Should developers fix bugs in their own code? [closed]
Awarded Jul 20, 2023 at 19:20
Clean Architecture: What is the View Model?
Awarded Jul 16, 2023 at 10:51
Open source library, can the project owner change the license to be more restrictive?
Awarded Jul 8, 2023 at 3:01
Logging in JSON Effect on Performance
Awarded Jul 7, 2023 at 6:50
How to write a HTTP server?
Awarded Jun 29, 2023 at 12:52
What kind of license to put a private project?
Awarded Jun 28, 2023 at 22:35
Multiple boolean arguments - why is it bad?
Awarded Jun 27, 2023 at 22:11
When and how should I use exceptions?
Awarded Jun 17, 2023 at 8:41
Is taking frequent breaks really that beneficial when programming? [closed]
Awarded Jun 16, 2023 at 19:06
What is the point of unit tests?
Awarded Jun 14, 2023 at 9:02
How to unit test image processing code?
Awarded Jun 13, 2023 at 8:09
Efficiency of C# dictionaries
Awarded Jun 12, 2023 at 9:27
Is there a difference between duck typing and structural typing? [duplicate]
Awarded Jun 11, 2023 at 17:05
Difference between Domain Driven Design and Clean Architecture
Awarded Jun 6, 2023 at 10:21
ES / CQRS concurrency handling
Awarded May 29, 2023 at 2:20
Why is Option/Maybe considered a good idea and checked exceptions are not?
Awarded May 23, 2023 at 18:31
Is it okay to hard-code table and column names in queries?
Awarded Apr 29, 2023 at 15:10
What is a good way to comment if-else-clauses? [closed]
Awarded Apr 27, 2023 at 3:11
Is there a way to use a C++ API in C#?
Awarded Apr 25, 2023 at 3:10
SQL as a means of avoiding "releases"
Awarded Apr 12, 2023 at 7:27
Can I commerically use GPL licensed software on my server if I am only distributing the client software?
Awarded Apr 11, 2023 at 13:13
How to generate "language-safe" UUIDs?
Awarded Apr 11, 2023 at 9:25
How to drastically improve code coverage?
Awarded Apr 2, 2023 at 22:30
How do purely functional languages handle modularity?
Awarded Mar 28, 2023 at 22:37
Iterator pattern - why is it important to not expose the internal representation?
Awarded Mar 26, 2023 at 13:34
Providing friendly URLs for a website vs. realities of database IDs
Awarded Mar 19, 2023 at 19:06
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