vartec

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Opinions on Unladen Swallow?

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19 votes

250 billions line of COBOL, 1mln COBOL programmers?

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Is PHP thread-safe

php multithreading thread-safety asked Mar 25 '09 at 10:58

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17 votes

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

movies explosives asked Jul 5 '11 at 10:19

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14 votes

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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13 votes

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

work programming-productivity ergonomics asked Nov 11 '11 at 10:35

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12 votes

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

climate-change asked Jul 5 '11 at 11:57

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11 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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11 votes

Is reducing carbon emission from cars futile?

cars climate-change asked Feb 21 at 14:50

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