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- Why is int in C in practice at least a 32 bit? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/448256/why-is-int-in-c-in-practice-at-least-a-32-bit-type-today-despite-it-being-devel 50 comments
- What Is Wrong with the Unlicense? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/147111/what-is-wrong-with-the-unlicense/147120#147120 7 comments
- Please help – stuck with recursive speculative display list algorithm https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/404293/recursive-speculative-display-list-engine-computing-text-length-across-stack-b 3 comments
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- What Happened to the “Surgical Team” Pattern from “The Mythical Man-Month”? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/355203/69228 5 comments
- Why do game developers prefer Windows? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/60544/why-do-game-developers-prefer-windows 5 comments
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- Ways to explain code when told it doesn't make sense https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/411585/ways-to-explain-code-when-told-it-doesnt-make-sense 5 comments programming
- Why is 80 characters the 'standard' limit for code width? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/148677/why-is-80-characters-the-standard-limit-for-code-width 15 comments historical
- Why do game developers prefer Windows? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/88055/20932 14 comments games , graphics , historical
- Original source of `(seed * 9301 and 49297) % 233280` random algorithm? (2014) https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/260969/original-source-of-seed-9301-49297-233280-random-algorithm 2 comments programming
- What was the "old," way of doing 3D graphics before shaders? (fixed function pipelines and such) https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/60544/why-do-game-developers-prefer-windows/88055#88055 13 comments graphicsprogramming
- Why is recursion not prefered (in a try-catch block)? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/310434/exception-treatment-with-without-recursion 13 comments learnprogramming
- Where did the notion of "one return only" come from? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/118703/37315 235 comments programming
- Does importing a GPLv3 python module require that I release my code under GPLv3 as well? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/167781 2 comments gnu
- Ways to explain code when told it doesn't make sense https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/411585/ways-to-explain-code-when-told-it-doesnt-make-sense 7 comments programming
- Why F#, Rust and Others Use Option Type Instead Of Nullable types like C# 8 Or TypeScript? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/410724/why-f-rust-and-others-use-option-type-instead-of-nullable-types-like-c-8-or-t 38 comments rust
- EF6: XyzEntities (derived from DbContext) and the using statement https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/359667/is-it-ok-to-create-an-entity-framework-datacontext-object-and-dispose-it-in-a-us/359672#359672 8 comments csharp
- Why is JavaScript not compiled to bytecode before sending over the network? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/402250/why-is-javascript-not-compiled-to-bytecode-before-sending-over-the-network 66 comments programming
- Why are the macOS and iOS coordinate systems different? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/226529/in-ios-y-axis-starts-from-the-top-and-grows-downward-it-is-the-opposite-to-osx 28 comments apple
- Future proof Java & UI https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/384129/java-ui-future-proof 37 comments java
- How do I differentiate between running javascript client side and running it server side? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/251857/how-to-tell-node-js-which-javascript-code-runs-on-server-vs-client 15 comments learnprogramming
- Which hashing algorithm is best for uniqueness and speed? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/49550/which-hashing-algorithm-is-best-for-uniqueness-and-speed 4 comments coding
- Which hashing algorithm is best for uniqueness and speed? Ian Boyd's answer (top voted) is one of the best comments I've seen on Stackexchange. https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/49550/which-hashing-algorithm-is-best-for-uniqueness-and-speed 293 comments programming
- For the LOVE OF GOD, Please use long/expressive names. We do not want to spend more time figuring out what your code does. https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/33349/scientific-evidence-that-supports-using-long-variable-names-instead-of-abbreviat 952 comments programming
- What exactly makes the Haskell type system so revered? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/279362/7762 12 comments haskell
- Why can't the IT industry deliver large, faultless projects quickly as in other industries? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/158640/why-cant-the-it-industry-deliver-large-faultless-projects-quickly-as-in-other 722 comments programming
- Unifying programming and database query https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/356307/unifying-programming-and-database-query 26 comments programming
- What happened to the "Surgical Team" pattern from "The Mythical Man-Month"? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/355203/what-happened-to-the-surgical-team-pattern-from-the-mythical-man-month 38 comments programming
- What is the single most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/44177/what-is-the-single-most-effective-thing-you-did-to-improve-your-programming-skil 134 comments programming
- Why do game developers prefer Windows? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/88055 749 comments programming
- Result property vs Pattern Matching. Which would you prefer? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/354342/representing-different-method-results-via-the-return-type-in-c 16 comments csharp
- Is OData (Open Data Protocol) Dead? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/290464/is-open-data-protocol-odata-being-widely-embraced-by-the-development-community 40 comments dotnet
- Learning programming language specifically designed for that company https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/348420/198652 27 comments programming
- What is the "Fix Everything" design pattern? https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/347411/102438 20 comments programming
- Creating a compile-to-JS language http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/160899 18 comments javascript
- Why are native ES6 promises slower and more memory-intensive than bluebird? http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/278778/why-are-native-es6-promises-slower-and-more-memory-intensive-than-bluebird?newsletter=1&nlcode=652243%7C2c6a 9 comments node
- How to empirically study time and space complexity? http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/333705/what-programming-environments-can-be-used-to-illustrate-and-benchmark-the-unopti 5 comments learnprogramming
- Update cc-style to use a mix of tabs and spaces, depending on context? http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/197839/79828 5 comments emacs