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How Does Stackoverflow Work? (The Official FAQ)
Official Stack Overflow Community FAQ
Questions and Answers
What do the stackoverflow colors mean?
How do comments work in stackoverflow?
What is a closed question in stackoverf …
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138answers
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What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon.
Personally I like this one.
P.s. Do not hotlink the cartoon without the site's permission please.
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119answers
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Hidden Features of C#
This came to my mind after I learned the following from this question:
where T : struct
We, c# developers, all know the basics of c#. I mean declerations, conditionals, loops, o …
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Using what I’ve learned from stackoverflow. (HTML Scraper)
After obsessing over Stack Overflow for a few days, I thought I'd take what I've learned from the site and make something useful out of it. I like reputation, but one thing in part …
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33answers
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Could we please be a bit nicer to the noobs?
I've been using Stackoverflow for most of the private beta. Since the site went to public beta on Monday, I have detected a distinct decline in the level of civility. Some of thi …
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Fastest Gun in the West Problem [closed]
This question is now an issue on uservoice. You're welcome to vote and comment there. Thank you all for your great suggestions
Note: I encourage everyone to read this question wit …
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186answers
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What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?
If you could go back in time and tell yourself to read a specific book at the beginning of your career as a developer, what book would it be?
I expect this list to be varied and t …
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306answers
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What do you use to keep notes as a developer?
Where, as a developer, do you like to keep your code snippets, links, checklists, final solutions to problems etc?
I've fooled with Google Notebook, MS Onenote, TreePad, textfil …
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43answers
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Stackoverflow: Why aren’t people rating questions?
While at least some answers from every question seem to have been up-modded as a "helpful" answer: (as of 8/16, this is about the same ratio as the original post)
about 49% of qu …
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Firefox and IE7 users: Here is your stackoverflow search plugin!
I have created a search plugin for Firefox (and IE7 as wilhelmtell pointed out):
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"
xmln …
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38answers
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How do you handle poor quality code from team members?
I know most people have code review and standards in place, but I work at a place with poor standards. I'm not saying that my code is flawless by any means, but I find the code my …
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129answers
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What are Code Smells? What is the “best” way to correct them?
OK, so I know what a code smell is, and the Wikipedia Article is pretty clear in its definition:
In computer programming, code smell is
any symptom in the source code of a
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Funny loading statements to keep users amused
Nobody likes waiting but unfortunately in the AJAX app I'm working on at the moment, there is one fair-sized pause (1-2 seconds a go) that users have to undergo each and every time …
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290answers
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What is the single most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills?
Looking back at my career and life as a programmer, there were plenty of different ways I improved my programming skills - reading code, writing code, reading books, listening to p …
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272answers
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Great programming quotes
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 swedi …
