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jmq

Chicago, IL

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Age: 38

Professional application developer for a large telecommunications company. I work on the software that manages their IT infrastructure (networks, computers, operating systems, etc). Most of my work is in Unix/Linux environments (Sun, HPUX and RHEL).

All opinions stated are my own and not that of my employer.

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." ~ Confucius

"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." - Edward V. Berard

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Ternary conditional operator in Python

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When do you use Java's @Override annotation and why?

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How do I compare strings in Java?

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