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• Why did you pick your current job?

  - by Nathan Feger

  Why are you working where you are right now? Specifically, how did you go from offer to acceptance? I have found that it is pretty difficult to figure out how to analyze a new company and I'm looking for some advice. My current choice was heavily influenced by a former mentor of mine. Yet, I'll probably need to be my own man soon enough... So, what did it for you?

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• Last words of a ??? programmer

  - by Peter

  What will the last words of some kind of programmer be? Like: LW of a Perl programmer: I don't have to write documentation. The source is formatted so well, I can read it anytime later... or Im just going to write a regular expression to find this, then I'm done...

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• Are you a self taught programmer or did you take a programming course?

  - by workinprogress

  Lots of developers I know were self taught programmers including me. I was wondering how much of the developer community learned programming by taking a course in school or by experimenting, asking questions on forums, reading online articles, and just making it up as you go along? Post whether you were self taught or took classes, what language you program in, and anything else that may be interesting. P.S. Books count as self taught.

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• Great programming quotes

  - by epatel

  There are a lot of great programming quotes out there. Which do you like? Today (Sept 12, 2008) I heard a new one from a friend, Lars-Gunnar, he said "Gud finns i Emacs" (in Swedish). This basically means "God is in Emacs". Still laughing about it here :) What he meant was that a function "gud is grand-unified-debugger" is in Emacs. A great one I think all programmers should know is The Three Great Virtues of a Programmer.

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• What was the most surprising failure of your 'Engineer's intuition'?

  - by Bubba88

  Hi! This may seem as an open-ended question but I'll surely accept the most impressive and upvoted answer ;) Basically, I could describe my own case - I just fail 5 times a day with my intuition cause very frequently I can be just not up-to-the-speed with my requirements/manager/team/etc. and I just have to make code quickly - that's why proper formalization in many cases stands aside. I want to gather some experience of yours - what was the most epic failure when you did rely on you implicit reasoning/intuitive knowledge/immediate perception etc. of course everything you describe should be related to programming/computers. It's mostly just to measure the danger of using that 'it's obvious..' words. I've made it com. wiki to be properly transformed after gathering enough views count. Thank you!

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• What to do if programmer is stuck at some point.

  - by Mohanavel

  Some times while coding i'm stuck at some point. I couldn't come out of the problem easily and this ate plenty of time. Is it this is happening to all? If it is what is the solution and how to approach this problem.

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• Managing my TODO list - how to get organised

  - by sparkes

  What's the best way to organise my personal TODO list? and what tools are available for organising team TODO lists? Should I still be thinking in terms of TODO or are there better ways to manage my time and projects? See also this question on Organization which is similar

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• Expression Studio 4 Premium & SketchFlow question; WTH

  - by Refracted Paladin

  Through work I have an Visual Studio Premium with MSDN subscription that I love. However, my biggest disappointment of the last 12 months was discovering that our 2nd from the top level subscription was not enough to get me Sketchflow! This is, most decidedly, NOT SHINY, and I am borderline distraught! What are my options? Upgrading to an Ultimate subscription for Sketchflow is out of the question. Am I forced, then, to stay with Blend 3 or Purchase Blend 4 seperately? If this is not a question I should ask here please inform and I'll delete. I just tend to default to SO for all questions that Google can't answer and Google did not answer this one.

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• How can you tell if a person is a programmer?

  - by Lucas Jones

  I was wondering when I read the famous "Programmer Habits" thread, I was wondering: Is there any way to tell if somebody is a programmer without actually asking them? Clarification: I am asking for things that you can use to recognise a programmer from "afar" or without knowing them well. To identify habits, you need to be around a person for a certain amount of time.

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• shared hacker houses in europe

  - by Mantas

  Hey, I'm a freelance web developer. I'm borred of my hometown, so I want to hit the road. Do you know any shared hacker houses in Europe? Do you have any ideas what is the best way to look for a shared flat? France, Spain, Holland, Italy... I'm interested in virtually any country :) P.S. I speak English and Lithuanian only, so it's hard to look up shared flat in local languages...

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• How do you reach a "flow" state while programming?

  - by acrosman

  I'm not talking about program flow, but as in the state of working called flow, the state where you can get great work done the most effectively. I find that my current work environment while good in many ways does not allow me to get into a good state of mind for writing code most of the time (my job includes many other functions). If it's critical to get something done I'll often put on head-phones with classical music and try to drown out the office noise around me (and discourage co-workings from asking me questions). I am best able to get work done late in the evening when the house is quite and I've been thinking about the project for most of the day. What tricks have you found when working in less then perfect office environments?

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• What was the most interesting question you were asked on the interview?

  - by VItaliy

  It can be IT or non-IT related

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• What is the best method to remove duplicate image files from your computer

  - by BioGeek

  I have a lot of duplicate image files on my Windows computer, in different subfolders and with different filenames. What Python script or freeware program would you recommend for removing the duplictes? (I've read this similar question, but the poster there is asking about visual duplicates with differing filesizes. Mine are exact duplicates with different filenames.)

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• What's your favorite "programmer" cartoon?

  - by Dan Williams

  Personally I like this one: P.S. Do not hotlink the cartoon without the site's permission please.

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• What's your favorite programmable calculator?

  - by Pat Notz

  The HP-32S still holds a soft spot in my heart, even though it only had 4 registers. I have fond memories of writing a nonlinear solver for finding an azeotrope curve during a Thermodynamics final. Despite the increase in power, memory, pixels and features the HP-32G that followed never could steal my heart away. Here's to you, HP-32S. Let's hear it, what's your favorite programmable calculator? As with all poll type questions, do NOT submit a new answer unless your answer is not represented. Vote up your answer instead of adding yet another TI-85 or HP-49 to the list, and add comments to that answer if you want to relate specifics. EDIT: I moved my photo into an answer for polling.

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• Have you ever recognized any source code visible in a movie?

  - by carrier

  Sometimes source code is visible in a movie, have you ever recognized any?

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• What is the correct verb for what programmers do?

  - by bennybdbc

  Sorry if this is a little off-topic, but I never know what word to use when I am searching the internet for articles or tutorials. What I mean is, say I wanted to search for information regarding making a notepad clone, would I search for: "Creating A Notepad Clone" "Building A Notepad Clone" "Making A Notepad Clone" So what I'm asking is basically, is there a definitive term to use, or does it vary depending on the source?

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• What do you read?

  - by sixtyfootersdude

  I have almost finished reading all the articles on Joel on software. I am a new developer and hoping to get something interesting to read. Here is what is currently on my list: Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz sed & awk by Dougherty & Robbins (O'Reilly) The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas Head First Design Patterns Can anyone suggest anything else? Would especially like something similar to Joel. Something that is a bit edgy but informative. Pragmatic programmer has some key concepts but is a bit dry.

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• What's a programming answer you hate to hear the most, yet give out yourself on many occasions?

  - by JaredPar

  For me it's got to be "It depends ..."

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• How do you clear your mind after 8-10 hours per day of coding?

  - by Bryan

  Related Question- Ways to prepare your mind before coding?. I'm having a hard time taking my mind off of work projects in my personal time. It's not that I have a stressful job or tight deadlines; I love my job. I find that after spending the whole day writing code & trying to solve problems, I have an extremely hard time getting it out of my mind. I'm constantly thinking about the current project/problem/task all the time. It's keeping me from relaxing, and in the long run it just builds stress. Personal projects help to some extent, but mostly just to distract me. I still have source code bouncing around my head 16 hours a day. I'm still relatively new to the workforce. Have you struggled with this, perhaps as a young developer? How did you overcome it? Can anyone offer general advice on winding down after a long programming session?

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• Mood for coding

  - by dole doug

  When you don't have the mood for coding, how do you get it? Now I'm working on a project that I don't like at all, besides is a new programming language for me and I have to do it alone. So, the question is: how do you get the mood for coding? Any tips/tricks are welcome :)

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• SEO Services - Good or Bad?

  - by NTulip

  What is everyone's opinion of SEO companies and is there a true honest service that can help? Is it a waste of money and time? Are they really able to influence your ranking in a search?

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• What was your first programming language?

  - by Chris Pietschmann

  When you first started to write program, what was the first programming language you learned? Please don't post repeats. If someone already posted it, just vote for it.

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• Is it ethical to post my own Topcoder solutions to my blog

  - by Chintan

  I recently joined Topcoder and have been solving a few problems on the site. Now, I want to publicly post my solutions onto my blog and have others go over it, suggest improvements, better design etc wherever applicable. My question is, would this be ethical?

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• Where is the chink in Google Chrome's armor?

  - by kudlur

  While browsing with Chrome, I noticed that it responds extremely fast (in comparison with IE and Firefox on my laptop) in terms of rendering pages, including JavaScript heavy sites like gmail. This is what googlebook on Chrome has to say tabs are hosted in process rather than thread. compile javascript using V8 engine as opposed to interpreting. Introduce new virtual machine to support javascript heavy apps introduce "hidden class transitions" and apply dynamic optimization to speed up things. Replace inefficient "Conservative garbage colllection" scheme with more precise garbage collection scheme. Introduce their own task scheduler and memory manager to manage the browser environment. All this sounds so familiar, and Microsoft has been doing such things for long time.. Windows os, C++, C# etc compilers, CLR, and so on. So why isn't Microsoft or any other browser vendor taking Chrome's approach? Is there a flaw in Chrome's approach? If not, is the rest of browser vendor community caught unaware with Google's approach?

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