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Why is char[] preferred over String for passwords?

java string security passwords char Jan 15 at 9:05 Praveen Kumar

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262

358 votes

18 answers

Does Functional Programming Replace GoF Design Patterns?

design-patterns oop functional-programming Oct 19 '12 at 19:44 John Optional Smith

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319

290 votes

9 answers

Which hashing algorithm is best for uniqueness and speed?

algorithms hashing Oct 18 '12 at 19:28 Janus Troelsen

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227 votes

12 answers

I'm a Subversion geek, why should I consider or not consider Mercurial or Git or any other DVCS?

version-control git mercurial dvcs svn Dec 19 '12 at 8:21 dukeofgaming

151 votes

6 answers

How do I push amended commit to the remote git repo?

git version-control Sep 24 '12 at 15:46 bara

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124 votes

8 answers

What Is Tail Call Optimization?

algorithm recursion tail-call-optimization Aug 26 '12 at 1:27 btiernay

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121 votes

17 answers

Pushing to Git returning Error Code 403 fatal: HTTP request failed

git github dvcs May 7 at 0:01 gnoll110

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112 votes

49 answers

What is the most frequent concurrency issue you've encountered in Java?

java multithreading concurrency Dec 3 '12 at 11:14 Alex Miller

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100 votes

7 answers

How does hacking work?

penetration-test php unix Mar 11 '12 at 23:08 user7360

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79 votes

Please explain some of Paul Graham's points on Lisp

lisp clojure scheme common-lisp paul-graham Mar 21 '12 at 14:16 jcc333

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70 votes

9 answers

Can someone explain this 'double negative' trick?

javascript html5 Apr 9 at 15:10 StriplingWarrior

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63 votes

Where can I find a video of a professional using Emacs?

emacs ide text-editor Aug 31 '12 at 23:17 Matt Curtis

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62 votes

16 answers

Desktop forgets theme?

gnome themes gnome-settings-daemon Jan 2 at 21:02 vemv

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53 votes

29 answers

What's in your .emacs?

emacs text-editor elisp dot-emacs Apr 29 '12 at 16:45 Mark A. Nicolosi

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41 votes

17 answers

How can I thoroughly evaluate a prospective employer?

interview employment culture corporate-culture Oct 19 '11 at 16:34 glenviewjeff

37 votes

Prototypical OO in JavaScript

javascript oop node.js prototypal-inheritance ecmascript-5 Jun 30 '11 at 16:54 Dino Gambone

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35 votes

Nested git repositories?

git nested 3rd-party-library Jan 7 at 11:14 Stefano

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28 votes

11 answers

javascript test for existence of nested object key

javascript object nested testing Apr 29 at 23:53 Gabe Moothart

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28 votes

8 answers

What are some easter eggs that went wrong?

history easter-eggs Apr 13 '11 at 21:19 Martin Beckett

27 votes

Hidden features of Clojure

clojure May 6 '12 at 17:45 casperOne

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26 votes

1 answer

What is the good starting point to developing RESTful web service in Clojure?

rest web-services frameworks clojure Oct 10 '12 at 17:09 jdl

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24 votes

Minimum values and Double.MIN_VALUE in Java?

java numbers floating-point Oct 4 '11 at 18:43 warren

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22 votes

11 answers

Java: What is a good data structure for storing a coordinate map for an infinite game world?

java map tile coordinate Nov 13 '12 at 11:09 brimborium

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21 votes

How to import a GIT non-Eclipse Java project into Eclipse?

java eclipse git import egit Mar 24 at 20:46 samfisher

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19 votes

27 answers

What is the best way to avoid getting “Emacs Pinky”?

emacs keyboard Jan 24 at 4:42 Benjamin Oakes

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19 votes

3 answers

Better alternative to pmap in Clojure for parallelizing moderately inexpensive functions over big data?

clojure parallel-processing Aug 31 '11 at 3:35 Alex Stoddard

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18 votes

Set Ctrl+Alt+T to open a maximized terminal

shortcut-keys gnome-terminal Jul 2 '12 at 15:03 Craig

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16 votes

3 answers

Why does the Lisp community prefer to accumulate all the parentheses at the end of the function?

lisp clojure coding-standards Aug 19 '11 at 1:28 Chiron