User Pieter B - Software Engineering Stack Exchange

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Is it bad practice to write code that relies on compiler optimizations?

answered Oct 12, 2017 at 12:58

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Is there any technical reason why, in programming, the default date format is YYYYMMDD and not something else?

answered Sep 25, 2018 at 0:18

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Where did the notion of "one return only" come from?

answered Oct 4, 2013 at 6:58

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Should I record a bug that I discovered and patched?

answered Oct 20, 2016 at 11:42

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Completion time on a company where the supervisors don't know programming

answered Apr 27, 2012 at 10:49

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How to protect software from being deleted by antivirus?

answered Oct 24, 2019 at 12:31

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SQL sanitizing in code with no user input

answered Mar 7, 2023 at 12:23

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Why do we need to put N before strings in Microsoft SQL Server?

answered Jul 6, 2012 at 14:52

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Why did the creators of the Internet Protocol decide to use IP addresses to identify a particular computer?

answered Sep 10, 2014 at 9:57

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Why are deadlines always so short?

answered Aug 7, 2014 at 7:35

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Does using a database server make sense if the application only does things locally?

answered Apr 21, 2015 at 7:22

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Force users to update to the latest version of my app on the Google Play Store

answered Jan 6, 2014 at 12:42

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Is debugging a waste of time?

answered Feb 12, 2014 at 10:23

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All full stack developers vs backend and frontend developers?

answered May 20, 2017 at 8:09

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Should laying out a GUI graphically be considered "cheating?"

answered Jul 24, 2012 at 7:05

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How do you compress ASCII strings into fewer bytes?

answered Jan 17, 2013 at 4:52

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Effectiveness of FizzBuzz and Beyond

answered Jan 11, 2013 at 11:03

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Why are floating point numbers used often in Science/Engineering?

answered Oct 21, 2014 at 22:44

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Why should your code not use 100% CPU?

answered Oct 7, 2014 at 13:13

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Can long lived feature branches be justified by merging master into the feature branch daily

answered Jul 10, 2019 at 12:02

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Why did SQL injection prevention mechanism evolve into the direction of using parameterized queries?

answered Sep 13, 2016 at 6:56

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Is it OK to have single flag and use value -1 as 'disabled'?

answered Apr 26, 2017 at 17:41

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What is a 'Null Terminated String' ?

answered Jan 4, 2013 at 12:14

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What are good reasons to drop Windows XP support?

answered Jul 4, 2013 at 7:56

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Reasons NOT to open source not-for-profit code?

answered Jun 13, 2012 at 7:52

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When to optimize for memory vs performance speed for a method?

answered Sep 5, 2018 at 11:12

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As API author, should I treat Empty and Null the same in search criteria?

answered Feb 8, 2018 at 10:12

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When to ignore errors that are common and the program recovers from

answered Nov 1, 2016 at 12:55

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Almost every reported bug is a high-priority bug

answered Nov 17, 2015 at 10:45

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Which programming language first came up with the finally block?

answered Oct 1, 2014 at 18:03

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Is it bad practice to write code that relies on compiler optimizations?

Is there any technical reason why, in programming, the default date format is YYYYMMDD and not something else?

Where did the notion of "one return only" come from?

Should I record a bug that I discovered and patched?

Completion time on a company where the supervisors don't know programming

How to protect software from being deleted by antivirus?

SQL sanitizing in code with no user input

Why do we need to put N before strings in Microsoft SQL Server?

Why did the creators of the Internet Protocol decide to use IP addresses to identify a particular computer?

Why are deadlines always so short?

Does using a database server make sense if the application only does things locally?

Force users to update to the latest version of my app on the Google Play Store

Is debugging a waste of time?

All full stack developers vs backend and frontend developers?

Should laying out a GUI graphically be considered "cheating?"

How do you compress ASCII strings into fewer bytes?

Effectiveness of FizzBuzz and Beyond

Why are floating point numbers used often in Science/Engineering?

Why should your code not use 100% CPU?

Can long lived feature branches be justified by merging master into the feature branch daily

Why did SQL injection prevention mechanism evolve into the direction of using parameterized queries?

Is it OK to have single flag and use value -1 as 'disabled'?

What is a 'Null Terminated String' ?

What are good reasons to drop Windows XP support?

Reasons NOT to open source not-for-profit code?

When to optimize for memory vs performance speed for a method?

As API author, should I treat Empty and Null the same in search criteria?

When to ignore errors that are common and the program recovers from

Almost every reported bug is a high-priority bug

Which programming language first came up with the finally block?