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Heap overflow vs stack overflow
So as a general rule to avoid a stack overflow, big objects should be allocated to the heap (correct me if I am wrong). But, since the heap and the stack expand towards each other, wouldn't this cause ...
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How many are too many nested function calls?
Quoted from MSDN about StackOverflowException:
The exception that is thrown when the execution stack overflows because it contains too many nested method calls.
Too many is pretty vague here. ...
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How often is seq used in Haskell production code?
I have some experience writing small tools in Haskell and I find it very intuitive to use, especially for writing filters (using interact) that process their standard input and pipe it to standard ...
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How to advocate Stack Overflow at work
I am thinking of doing a short presentation at work about using Stack Overflow as a resource for your day job.
What is the experience doing this?
Would you deem it a valid resource to tell you ...
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How do I let programmers know something useful?
Quite often I go through pain to discover how to do something useful, in this case how to get PHP running on Google App Engine without the 'resin.jar too big' problem, but I have nowhere to let people ...
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What are the major challenges in creating a platform such as StackOverflow? [closed]
Let us assume you were to create a platform such as StackOverflow. It needs to be functional, fast and scalable, just like SO, in order to be successful.
What are the major challenges you would face ...
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How do you find answers to coding questions? What could be improved?
There are a lot of ways to seek answers to programming questions; for example web search, online documentation, stackoverflow and asking colleagues.
In your experience how do you search for and find ...
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What makes C developers so curious if “i++ == ++i”?
Just a random observation, it seems that on StackOverflow.com, there are questions about if "++i == i++". That question gets asked all the time though, I think I saw it asked about 6 or 7 times in the ...
