John Bartholomew

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Why is the warranty disclaimer section of a licence usually (always?) shouted?

licensing asked Jan 13 '11 at 20:57

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13 votes

Avoiding duplicate icon resources in a .NET (C#) project

c# winforms winapi resources asked Feb 27 '09 at 21:55

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13 votes

Are comparisons on out-of-range pointers well-defined?

c++ language-lawyer asked Dec 21 '12 at 21:01

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11 votes

Preventative vs. preventive

word-choice etymology american-english british-english adjectives asked May 26 '11 at 16:22

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8 votes

C++ operator lookup rules / Koenig lookup

c++ argument-dependent-lookup asked Jan 5 '11 at 12:16

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6 votes

Is it reasonable to call CloseHandle() on a thread before it terminates?

multithreading winapi asked Jan 7 '09 at 0:22

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6 votes

Variance in RDTSC overhead

c++ performance assembly intel rdtsc asked Jun 21 '11 at 22:15

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6 votes

Is there an operational difference between std::set::iterator and std::set::const_iterator?

c++ c++11 iterator set containers asked Sep 5 '12 at 14:05

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5 votes

std::ostream not formatting const char* correctly the first time it's used

c++ iostream asked Nov 19 '09 at 17:07

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Top Answers

Is there a term for referring to an organization by its city rather than by its name?

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When have you used C++ 'mutable' keyword?

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How to identify platform/compiler from preprocessor macros?

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How do I emphasize a word using the standard punctuation system?

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Is lolspeak bad English, or just a different English?

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Smart pointers usage

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Freedom fighters vs Freedom fighters

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Why is Java boolean primitive type name not 'bool'?

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Do functional generics exist and what is the correct name for them if they do?

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Just how random is std::random_shuffle?

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Why permutation matrices are used to swap rows of an array?

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Is it “close-minded” or “closed-minded”?

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what does ::operator() do?

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Most unpatched Tomcat webservers are vulnerable, who's at fault?

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when is it necessary to add an `else` clause to a try..except in Python?

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Does template (meta)programming has always only one way of implementation?

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Developing a desktop environment for linux

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how does one set a program's command line arguments, for ghci?

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nextTick usage in classes

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