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When creating a library for a simple program, what must I do to protect others from its lack of thread safety?
When creating a library for a simple program, is it more cost effective to make it thread safe or is there a way to detect the program's use in a multithreaded program and ASSERT() or otherwise ...
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Keep coding the wrong way to remain consistent? [duplicate]
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Code maintenance: keeping a bad pattern when extending new code for being consistent, or not?
To keep things simple let's say I am responsible for maintaining two ...
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Eliminating Magic Numbers: When is it time to say “No”?
We're all aware that magic numbers (hard-coded values) can wreak havoc in your program, especially when it's time to modify a section of code that has no comments, but where do you draw the line?
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