vartec

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Did COBOL have 250 billion lines of code and 1 million programmers, as late as 2009?

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Are light-on-dark colour schemes for computer screens better for programmers?

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Is PHP thread-safe

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“cut the blue wire” - do EOD technicians ever do that?

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Redirecting before POST upload has been completed

http redirect asynchronous twisted post-redirect-get asked May 28 '10 at 14:39

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Does using headphones to drown out ambient noise reduce the quality of work?

computers productivity programming asked Jul 18 '11 at 15:52

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14 votes

Did “global cooling” have as much scientific consensus as “global warming” has now?

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14 votes

How to see which flags -march=native will activate?

gcc g++ compiler-optimization compiler-flags asked Mar 29 '11 at 9:14

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13 votes

How to integrate Sikuli scripts into Selenium?

unit-testing testing selenium integration-testing sikuli asked Sep 8 '10 at 9:04

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12 votes

Do aliens killed by car count as kills?

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