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What's the utility of encouraging users to learn SQL and possibly the ability to execute it?
Facing a situation where I can't possibly get all the features that are requested into each version of the LOB I support, I've evolved a number SQL query templates that users have and send to me, ...
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difficulty of learning web development vs simplicity of learning one big language, like C
it's been two years now since I had some ideas of web sites. But for two years I have been working like hell, because of "regular" studies: physics. I am a PHD student. And it takes a lot of time.
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File Processing Times
I have a very simple program in Ruby that opens a dictionary file, sorted-words.txt and prints out all the words in pig-latin. I tested its speed, and the first time I ran it, the program finished in ...
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What is it like to be a HTML/CSS developer?
I have questions about what its' like to work as a web developer. I am 19 years old and i sort of taught myself how to do html/php/css. The job i am going for will require me to work with HTML5 and ...
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Why is there a leading zero in HTML 4.01 version number?
I've never noticed this quirk until now, and it's screwing with my mind. Why was HTML 4.01 numbered with a leading zero, rather than as 4.1?
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software engineer vs techical project manager . which is better? [closed]
I was .net software engineer for 3 years and company dint do well so they layoff bunch of people including me. I was doing MBA at that time and registered for PMP exam. After layoff I found software ...
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“how bad” is unrelated code in try-catch-finally block?
This is a related Q:
Is use of finally clause for doing work after return bad style/dangerous?
In the referenced Q, the finally code is related to the structure used and the necessity of ...
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any suggestions for my career [closed]
i am 17 years old doing my intermediate i am just totally confused that what to do after my inter, here my parents gave me two options either engineering or degree . i am not so good at studying like ...
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Bad customer service VS maintaining profit? [migrated]
Long story short:
I'm a software engineer at a large IT company and I've been assigned to work on an ERM project since my first day in the firm. This product is a 'shelf product' - it was developed ...
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Setting vim omnicompletion colors (Pmenu) in vimrc not working [migrated]
I am trying to customize my vim popup completion menu as per this guide:
[Vim Wiki: "Omni completion popup menu"](http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Omni_completion_popup_menu. It notes
add to your vimrc ...
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License of current JDK
I am wondering which license the current JDK 7 (NOT the OpenJDK) is using as I know it was once under GNU GPL but with the change of the Distributor License for Java I would like to know whether they ...
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auto crop image on ios [closed]
I am implementing an application and my app needs to crop image based on background contrast. I have seen similar behavior in document scanning applications where they automatically pick up image ...
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How to script the creation & configuration of a portable (vm-based?) Windows 7 dev environment?
I'm getting a new computer and would like to minimize the time spent configuring and maintaining dev environments on my various machines.
To that end, I'm thinking that creating a vm with my ...
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How to TDD that the correct results are returned
I'm starting a new project, and trying very very hard to use TDD to drive the design. I've been pushing for years, and finally got approval to spend the extra time on this project to use it while I ...
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Bad idea to display mail server info in public github project?
I have the project for work that requires me to send e-mails to people using our work mail server. The server doesn't require authentication. Part of my project is using a Java-Helper I'm developing ...
