AakashM

London, United Kingdom

twitter.com/AakashMehendale

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comment Should I write compact code or code with lots of spaces?
@FrustratedWithFormsDesigner I dunno, in the second sample here the identifiers aren't as short as they could legally be, which is what a minifier would do. Programmers from a more... ?academic/?theoretical background tend to go for things like fst, snd and so on. Look at typical Haskell code, for example: it's not minified, it just looks like it :)
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answered Vote to reopen language conversion question
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answered How to find the user or developer with the highest number of profile views?
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comment How to show $x^4 - 1296 = (x^3-6x^2+36x-216)(x+6)$
This is much easier if you recognise $1296$ as being $6^4$ straight away, but if not it factorises very quickly.
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answered Very slow DELETE query
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answered Lady in The End Of Time
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comment London pass travelcard vs. Oyster card
How long are you going to be in London?
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comment What to do as a Dev when for years their team has lacked product innovation, not used project mgmt methodologies, and kept bad Software Dev practices?
At least parts of Getting Things Done When You're Only a Grunt *by Joel Spolsky* are relevant.
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comment No Non Generic KeyValuePair class
Is your #1 basically "Why isn't my one-line method already implemented in the BCL" ? And is your #4 "Can my code consisting of a single method invocation be made shorter" ?!
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comment Why must I wait 5s after deleting my own comment to perform any other comment actions?
On Meta.SO: Deleting a comment (mine) shouldn't count as a comment vote is [meta-tag:status-bydesign], so currently there is little prospect of a change.
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comment Converting an empty string to a number
@Kolyunya well, that depends on the application. What's the application? What's the domain? What would a subject matter expert say?
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comment Why do a lot of Android apps (like Linkedin) require many unrelated privileges?
@AdamArold Here is the Facebook app for Android. Click the PERMISSIONS tab and scroll to the bottom. What do you see?
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comment Converting an empty string to a number
"How would you convert an empty string?" - however the requirements told me to. If the requirements didn't tell me, I'd ask the client (after berating the analyst, which might be me of course).
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reviewed Leave Open A way to increase Positive contributions
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comment What type of digital watermark is this?
"a file which shouldn't have existed" - explain further? Have you been hacked and someone's left this as their calling card?
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comment Simple SQL statement
@yasir looking at the migration stub on SO, none of the close voters are particularly SQL people, so they probably just went along with the suggestion
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comment Crowdfunding an indie game. What should I offer back?
Here's a successfully kickstarted indie game, although the face that the designer was the lead designer for Civ V might mean it's not necessarily representative of anything...
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reviewed Close How to view own page view history on Stack Overflow?
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awarded Nice Answer
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revised How can I effectively request to reduce the number of Hours I work per week
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