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• Show us your best obfuscated identity function

  - by Pyrolistical

  Rules are simple. Write an obfuscated function in any language that takes in an integer and returns the same integer. Try to use math tricks and not language tricks. IE. Try to make your function portable.

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• What is the best commit message you have ever encountered?

  - by Can Berk Güder

  Following this topic, what is the best (as in witty and/or funny) commit message you have ever encountered? For example, here's the message for a commit I made a few minutes ago: This change should have never been made. It kills little children. NOTE TO SELF: Don't do everything [the boss] tells you immediately.

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• Most inappropriate function or variable names you have encountered?

  - by Andrioid

  I was reading through my daily doze of RSS when I noticed a link to the python compiler documentation where class names like assList, assName and assTuple exist. While starting names with 'ass' is perfectly acceptable to me, it just sparked this idea that there probably exist much better examples of this. Have you personally used or otherwise encountered any inappropriate function or variable names? Personally I have used 'crap' and 'moo' for temporary purposes, forgot them and at a later point they came too integrated for me to bother with fixing them.

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• best IDE for ruby on rails

  - by Sanjay

  Having moved from java to ruby, I am struggling to find a good IDE for ruby. I used eclipse on java, so I tried Aptana Studio (previously Radrails), but its not even half as good. Currently I am trying out Netbeans for Ruby. Please suggest me the best RoR IDE out there. I believe TextMate is universally accepted as the best editor on Mac OS X. I am looking for windows. So far it seems netbeans and e-texteditor are worth a try.

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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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• What bug tracking software do you use?

  - by Thomas Owens

  I'm currently looking at Bugzilla and Trac, as they seem to be the most popular (and I'm hoping that also means if there are any problems, it will be easier to get help), but I'm curious what solutions you use or have used and what your thoughts are. I'm currently leaning toward Trac, as it's Wiki functionality can be used to support documentation. But that might not be a good enough reason to jump on Trac.

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• Web apps or Desktop apps

  - by Ram

  If we compare Windows and Web applications against following criteria Insight of .NET and OS Design Patterns Logic development Development of a fresher into a good developer which one is better.

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• How to implement a ilike Facebook system without user authentication and still prevent users from cheating ?

  - by fabien7474

  Hi, I am trying to implement something done in almost any website out there : a 'ilike' button (like Facebook) that does not require user authetication to be used for any article of my website written in Grails. I don't want to use any external solution, so I need to implement it myself (or use a grails plugin). So my question is : What does it take to implement this 'ilike' button and prevent users from cheating? For instance, do I need to store local cookies (I suppose yes)? Do I need to check the session ID and IP of the HTTP request? Any well-known implementation are welcomed. Thank you very much for your help.

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• What is the one programming skill you have always wanted to master but haven't had time?

  - by KevDog

  For me, I've always wanted to finish the O'Reilly "Mastering Regular Expressions" book. When I need a Regexp, I manage to get the one I need eventually, but it takes more effort than it should. Learning a specific technology or language always seems to bubble up ahead of this.

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• What is your single most effective interview question?

  - by Ewan Makepeace

  What single question, more than any other, enables you to sort the wheat from the chaff when interviewing developers?

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• Is there any way to identify a unique user in Flash/Actionscript 3?

  - by VGambit

  I'm trying to make a vote/poll application in Flash using Actionscript 3. Is there any way to generate a specific ID that is unique to each user? The only other option I can think of is using the IP address, which is less than ideal in many cases (college campuses, shared Internet access, etc.). It needs to be the same number every time it is run on the same PC, but different for each user.

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• What ETL tool do you use?

  - by VanOrman

  I've been trying to make a decision as to which package to implement. I've looked at Pentaho, Talend, SSIS, Informatica, etc... What do you use?

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• Best C# book you've ever read

  - by Shubhkarman

  Hello. I just wanted to ask about the best C# book you've ever read and is a must for every C# programmer. But please keep in mind: - Only one book per answer. - Check for duplicates before posting.

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• What books help one to learn to read code?

  - by Daniel

  Lion's Commentary on Unix Sixth Edition with Source Code is a wonderful book to learn how to read code. Reading code is important -- how does one learn how to write excellent code without having read excellent code? But, sadly, while great writers, of fiction and non-fiction, all spend a great deal of time reading stuff, we, programmers, seem to avoid it like the plague. Worse still, programming books usually go the same way. They might show a pattern or a style, but they often avoid showing good, complex code, and helping one go through it. There are exceptions, of course. I hope. So, with that in mind, what books are to be found which help one learn how to read code?

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• What is your favorite "programmer" t-shirt?

  - by Joe Lencioni

  This one is pretty good, especially for Star Wars fans:

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• CS Majors: Hardest concept(s) you learned in school?

  - by Mark Lubin

  For the CS majors out there what were the hardest CS classes or concepts that you learned in your undergraduate schooling? Did you find once you learned the basics,(data structs, OOP fundamentals, discrete math, pointers, recursion, etc) the rest followed naturally or did you hit a wall at any point in your higher classes like OS'es and Compilers? Thanks for the input!

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• What is the most painful development related mistake you have done and what you have learned?

  - by burak ozdogan

  What is the most painful programming mistake you have done and what lesson you have learn after? I guess mine was making a release to production on the development code which was not tested yet. The lesson-learned: Delete any projects that can trigger a release on the live application from CCTray. I only add them when a release to production is necessary since then. And once I am done, I delete them from my project lists.

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• An Attitude of Programming Gratitude

  - by DonnyD

  A few years ago, I felt privileged to be involved in a mature open-source project where my salary was paid by a government research grant. As it turned out, I was ill-equipped for this three-month contract which included some very stressful network support in a medical setting and, to add to that, the project was poorly managed with poor lines of communication. My dream job had suddenly become a nightmare. Never, in my experience, though, did I learn as much about programming in as short a period of time. Psychologically, the only way through this episode in my life was for me to actively look for the good in things and focus on my love of programming. What role has gratitude played in your life as a programmer?

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• What are the appropriate uses for MS Access?

  - by Patrick Cuff

  It's the Office app everyone loves to hate ;) I admit that it's often abused or misused, but it does come in handy on occasion. So what do you think? Are there appropriate uses for Access, or should MS jetison it from the Office suite?

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• What programming language do you wish would quietly retire? [closed]

  - by Gregory Higley

  This is the inverse of the "What programming language do you wish would catch on?" question. I was a Delphi programmer for many years, and I still appreciate its power, but I dislike verbose programming languages. So I would love to see Pascal put out to pasture. The same goes for BASIC in any form, despite the fact that it's the language I cut my teeth on. When I look at cathedrals of beauty like Haskell and REBOL, BASIC just makes me cringe. (VB.NET is tolerable, but barely. It has a few nice language features I'd like to see moved to C#.) My dislike of Pascal and VB.NET is subjective. They are powerful languages, but I dislike their syntax esthetically. Try to explain your reasoning, if you can, even if it's just "I don't like its syntax." This question is not meant to be a flame war, argumentative, or hateful. It's meant to be a straightforward, honest discussion of programmers' dislikes.

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• What are your favorite Vim tricks?

  - by Joe Van Dyk

  Post your favorite Vim tricks (or plug-ins or scripts). One trick per answer. Try to come up with something other than the basics, btw. :D

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• What should students be taught first when first learning sorting algorithms?

  - by Johan

  If you were a programming teacher and you had to choose one sorting algorithm to teach your students which one would it be? I am asking for only one because I just want to introduce the concept of sorting. Should it be the bubble sort or the selection sort? I have noticed that these two are taught most often. Is there another type of sort that will explain sorting in an easier to understand way?

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• What is the most poorly named application out there?

  - by Jerph

  What application, language, or other software product name makes you cringe every time you hear it; or was just an astoundingly bad choice from a marketing perspective? One name per answer, vote up the worst.

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• Do most web 'programmers' (not designers) use WYSIWYG editors or hand code their HTML?

  - by John MacIntyre

  When I started programming web pages, it became immediately obvious that the WYSIWYG editors sucked. The HTML output was difficult to maintain, did things in ways you may not have agreed with, completely messed up existing pages if opened, couldn't handle code in the page, and was polluted with dead or irrelevant code like <font ...></font>. At that time, I didn't know a single programmer with more than 6 months experience who didn't hand code their HTML. Even now, most of the developers I know hand code their HTML. But, I also realize this was a decade ago, WYSIWYG editors have improved, and I may be seriously underproductive hand coding my HTML. Do you, as a web programmer, use WYSIWYG editors for your HTML? PS-I'm kind of thinking we can just vote either YES or NO, and put comments below.

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• What is the WORST commit message you have ever authored?

  - by rpkelly

  I mean, we've all done it, making some changes and the checking them in with messages such "as made some changes" or "fixed a bug." Messages so inane, so pointless, you might as well have written "magical fun bus" in their place (of this, I am guilty), as it would be, perhaps, more descriptive. I ask you then, what is the most pointless, most off topic, strangest, or just WORST commit message you have ever authored?

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