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What should every programmer know about web development?

web-development May 17 at 16:54 SalmanPK

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What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?

books resources Feb 21 '12 at 21:02 Roger Pate

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1422 votes

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Hidden features of Python

python hidden-features Aug 4 '12 at 1:54 Roger Pate

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What is a metaclass in Python?

python oop metaclass python-datamodel Mar 21 at 7:59 Patrick McElhaney

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1072 votes

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What is the maximum length of a URL in different browsers?

http url browser maximum content-length Mar 28 at 19:06 Jason S

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878 votes

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What is the single most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills?

self-improvement skills Mar 12 '12 at 11:24 user8

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377 votes

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Can I use my powers for good?

soft-question career-development Apr 11 at 0:40 MGA

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369 votes

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I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now?

project-management agile development-process maintenance life-cycle Apr 22 at 19:34 Kazark

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359 votes

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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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338 votes

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I'm doing 90% maintenance and 10% development, is this normal?

maintenance Aug 27 '12 at 18:13 World Engineer

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333 votes

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Scala vs. Groovy vs. Clojure

scala groovy clojure language-comparisons Oct 1 '12 at 18:57 sschaef

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317 votes

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Why do business analysts and project managers get higher salaries than programmers?

management business software-developer Jul 25 '12 at 19:25 Vlad Gudim

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299 votes

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Why use pip over easy_install?

python setuptools pip pypi Apr 28 at 0:17 Christian Tismer

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How Can I Know Whether I Am a Good Programmer?

evaluation Jul 11 '12 at 17:15 Jim

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How do I create my own programming language and a compiler for it

programming-languages architecture api operating-systems Aug 23 '12 at 22:25 Anthony

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266 votes

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What does Ruby have that Python doesn't, and vice versa?

python ruby Dec 16 '11 at 22:41 Linuxios

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245 votes

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Is Python any good for GUI development?

python gui cross-platform Nov 13 '12 at 3:13 eliben

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What software programming languages were used by the Soviet Union's space program?

programming-languages history space-technology Aug 7 '12 at 2:10 Yannis Rizos

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Why can't the IT industry deliver large, faultless projects quickly as in other industries?

project-management development-process time-management industry Aug 2 '12 at 12:16 Droogans

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202 votes

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Speed comparison with Project Euler: C vs Python vs Erlang vs Haskell

python c performance haskell erlang Feb 20 at 5:58 jxy

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201 votes

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Torvalds' quote about good programmer

programming-practices quotations Oct 20 '12 at 4:45 radarbob

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189 votes

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How do I protect python code?

python obfuscation 12 hours ago Jordfräs

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179 votes

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Is $dy/dx$ not a ratio?

calculus Mar 14 at 3:35 isomorphismes

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176 votes

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Examples of apparent patterns that eventually fail

big-list examples-counterexamples Apr 10 at 3:04 Douglas B. Staple

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151 votes

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Would you recommend PostgreSQL over MySQL?

mysql database postgresql Jul 5 '12 at 15:46 Kyle

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142 votes

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Good Python modules for fuzzy string comparison?

python string string-comparison fuzzy-comparison May 5 at 16:10 Chris Stratton

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142 votes

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How many hours can you be really productive per day? How?

productivity distractions Jan 7 at 20:50 KeithS

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136 votes

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How can one manage thousands of IF…THEN…ELSE rules?

design design-patterns business-rules Sep 17 '12 at 10:42 exDM69

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134 votes

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What are the drawbacks of Python?

programming-languages python Oct 7 '12 at 15:16 Walter

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Algorithm to return all combinations of k elements from n

algorithm combinations May 12 at 6:46 Jolly1234

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