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Jim Ferrans

Chicago, IL

Work on "next-generation television". Prior work includes voice and multimodal user interfaces, database system software, graphical design tools, DSLs, and Y2K auto-correction software.
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What is the history of the use of “foo” and “bar” in source code examples?
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Why do pythonistas call the current reference “self” and not “this”?
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What's an appropriate HTTP status code to return by a REST API service for a validation failure?
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Get rid of ugly if statements
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java: Is there an object like a “Set” that can contain only unique string values, but also contain a count on the number of occurrences of the string value?
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JSON in non-Javascript applications
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Trouble coming up with good names for functions
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What projects do you feel sorry for?
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What is the best API/framework/platform you ever worked with?
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What is the fastest language that runs on the JVM
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What scalability problems have you solved using a NoSQL data store?
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How to send java.util.logging to log4j?
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Server Logging - in Database or Logfile?
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What is the practical purpose of XML, that MySQL does not have?
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When should you not refactor?
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Where do I find an Open Source project written in Scala?
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Kryo serialization library: is it used in production?
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What is an idempotent operation?
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What is the worst programming language you ever worked with?
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Experience migrating legacy Cobol/PL1 to Java
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Does anyone know of an example of a RESTful client that follows the HATEOAS principle?
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Out of memory error while creating huge XML
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How to design scalable applications?
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Is there a use case for creating threads without synchronization and locks?
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Which is the best alternative for Java Serialization?
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Architectural design documentation strategies
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What scripting languages are similar to ECMA?
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What is a good way to pass useful state information to an exception in Java?
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Cannot properly set the Accept HTTP header with jQuery
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Help with Java Calendar — it is giving some strange output
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