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Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x. This badge can be awarded multiple times.
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Should angularjs directive directly interact with services or is it considered an anti-pattern?
Awarded Jun 10, 2015 at 10:59
Is it ever OK to commit non-working code?
Awarded May 22, 2015 at 1:15
What factors should influence how I determine when to abandon a small project with a friend?
Awarded May 14, 2015 at 22:57
Is it okay to have objects that cast themselves, even if it pollutes the API of their subclasses?
Awarded May 1, 2015 at 20:08
TDD Red-Green-Refactor and if/how to test methods that become private
Awarded Apr 17, 2015 at 14:11
Why shouldn't I use the repository pattern with Entity Framework?
Awarded Apr 8, 2015 at 13:27
Why are people making tables with divs?
Awarded Apr 4, 2015 at 23:38
When should JavaScript generate HTML?
Awarded Apr 3, 2015 at 16:42
How can QA staff test caching logic that they can't see?
Awarded Mar 18, 2015 at 17:59
Is it more secure to hash a password multiple times?
Awarded Mar 17, 2015 at 11:32
How old is "too old"?
Awarded Mar 16, 2015 at 16:12
Date as software version number
Awarded Mar 4, 2015 at 19:18
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Awarded Feb 25, 2015 at 16:17
If we can do functional programming with Python, do we need a specific functional programming language?
Awarded Feb 16, 2015 at 15:48
Are there any easy-to-follow/reliable methods for simplifying code?
Awarded Feb 10, 2015 at 17:10
Is it a waste of time to free resources before I exit a process?
Awarded Feb 6, 2015 at 2:10
Is the 'finally' portion of a 'try ... catch ... finally' construct/structure even necessary?
Awarded Jan 27, 2015 at 13:41
What's so difficult about SVN merges?
Awarded Jan 22, 2015 at 2:57
What are 4th & 5th programming language generations? Are there more of them?
Awarded Jan 6, 2015 at 5:28
Why aren't databases integrated as a language feature?
Awarded Jan 5, 2015 at 15:53
Is there a conventional way to combine file path strings?
Awarded Jan 4, 2015 at 2:49
Why is *declaration* of data and functions necessary in C language, when the definition is written at the end of the source code?
Awarded Dec 24, 2014 at 19:02
Do Python programmers find the whitespace issue inconvenient?
Awarded Dec 7, 2014 at 18:46
Being IDE dependent. How can it harm me?
Awarded Nov 23, 2014 at 13:57
What is the real responsibility of a class?
Awarded Oct 30, 2014 at 23:36
A good generic type system
Awarded Oct 24, 2014 at 3:54
Are there any statistics that show the popularity of Git versus SVN?
Awarded Oct 9, 2014 at 16:43
How do you track what you and your team are working on day-to-day?
Awarded Sep 9, 2014 at 21:15
Why are the <b> and <i> tags deprecated?
Awarded Sep 7, 2014 at 11:07
How to avoid being forked into oblivion by a more powerful contributor?
Awarded Aug 27, 2014 at 7:59
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Awarded Aug 25, 2014 at 17:35
Should curly braces appear on their own line?
Awarded Aug 20, 2014 at 10:01
How should I remember what I was doing and why on a project three months back?
Awarded Jul 23, 2014 at 23:34
Reconciling the Boy Scout Rule and Opportunistic Refactoring with code reviews
Awarded Jul 7, 2014 at 9:23
Getting users to write decent and useful bug reports
Awarded Jun 23, 2014 at 12:35
Why are CIL and CLR required in .NET?
Awarded Jun 17, 2014 at 3:32
How can Swift be so much faster than Objective-C in these comparisons?
Awarded Jun 10, 2014 at 21:18
Why learn hexadecimal?
Awarded Jun 5, 2014 at 17:23
How to prevent deep indentations?
Awarded May 28, 2014 at 5:33
Why "Fork me on GitHub"?
Awarded May 7, 2014 at 13:45
Zero behavior objects in OOP - my design dilemma
Awarded Apr 7, 2014 at 7:46
What is the difference between 'layer of abstraction' and 'level of indirection'?
Awarded Mar 24, 2014 at 20:10
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Awarded Mar 17, 2014 at 13:58
Are null references really a bad thing?
Awarded Mar 13, 2014 at 20:56
Login using email or username?
Awarded Mar 11, 2014 at 7:40
What should I do when I've already waited too long between commits?
Awarded Feb 28, 2014 at 19:45
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Awarded Feb 28, 2014 at 3:28
Why is ~0 a Sequence of 1s
Awarded Feb 26, 2014 at 20:26
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Awarded Feb 7, 2014 at 18:05
Avoiding new operator in JavaScript -- the better way
Awarded Feb 2, 2014 at 4:20
How can we make agile enjoyable for developers that like to personally, independently own large chunks from start to finish
Awarded Jan 5, 2014 at 13:10
Why is it so hard to recruit for compiler[-related] jobs?
Awarded Dec 17, 2013 at 0:59
How to mentor junior programmer who may not be a good fit for programming?
Awarded Nov 28, 2013 at 11:51
Should curly braces appear on their own line?
Awarded Nov 25, 2013 at 8:35
Is this an assembly language?
Awarded Nov 6, 2013 at 4:28
Learning to be a good developer: what parts can you skip over?
Awarded Nov 1, 2013 at 12:29
Why would I learn C++11, having known C and C++?
Awarded Oct 10, 2013 at 18:19
Interfaces on an abstract class
Awarded Oct 1, 2013 at 18:17
Which is the better: a <= b or a < b+1
Awarded Sep 22, 2013 at 12:22
Are too many if-else statements for validation bad?
Awarded Sep 4, 2013 at 14:57
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