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abelenky

Seattle, WA

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Age: 39

35 year old lifetime computer programmer. I've worked in Pascal, C, C++, C#, VBScript, ASP, and touched on many other languages.

Graduated from MIT in '96 in Computer Science, active in politics.

At various times, worked for Microsoft, Tegic, AOL, Melodeo, Sagem-Morpho, and others. Currently working on [classified].
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Proper Use of yield return
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Stopping scripters from slamming your website hundreds of times a second
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What is the worst programming language you ever worked with?
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If strings are immutable in .NET, then why does Substring take O(n) time?
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Should objects delete themselves in C++?
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What is the most elegant way to loop TWICE in C
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`j = ++(i | i);` and `j = ++(i & i);` should an error: lvalue?
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How to program a fractal?
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What _IS_ bool in C++?
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Understanding “randomness”
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Why does my strlen function keep “crashing”?
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Why does this intentionally incorrect use of strcpy not fail horribly?
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15
Error when using extension methods in C#
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C# function to find the delta of two numbers
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Software tools to automatically decrypt a file, whose encryption algorithm (and/or encryption keys) isn't known?
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What's the logic behind this C code?
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GET vs. POST does it really really matter?
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Why doesn't C# allow access modifiers on destructors?
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C++ Accessing the Heap
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Why do we need to use `int main` and not `void main` in C++?
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Class in a Structure in C++
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Passing the same value around in a recursive function?
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How to initialize an array in C
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Which is the best practices: MethodReturnsBoolean == true/false OR true/false == MethodReturnsBoolean
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Getting syntax error involving ';'
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What happens to a TCP packet if the server is terminated?
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I want to make an 'if' statement that if a variable is less the 80 t=0 but if the variable is over t=x-80
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Count number of parameters in C variable argument method call
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Learn Emacs/Slime the Hard way (from 10 years of Vim)
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C# Decimal for loop incremental .05
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