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Hyrule

Age: 22

I'm a software engineering student. On my spare time, I like to program in languages that have C in their name (C, Objective-C, C++, C#, but unfortunately not COBOL, thank you).

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Why is it a bad practice to call System.gc?

java garbage-collection asked Mar 10 '10 at 2:19

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59 votes

COUNT(*) vs. COUNT(1) vs. COUNT(pk): which is better?

sql select count asked Apr 26 '10 at 1:10

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36 votes

Why is it bad practice to use links with the javascript: “protocol”?

javascript html href asked Mar 19 '10 at 18:07

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36 votes

What is the purpose of the unary '+' operator in C?

c asked Jul 9 '11 at 19:30

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32 votes

Why are there two kinds of JavaScript strings?

javascript string asked Apr 1 '11 at 13:54

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30 votes

What can make C++ RTTI undesirable?

c++ llvm rtti asked Feb 27 '11 at 18:20

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29 votes

How can I ensure the destruction of a String object in Java?

java security asked Mar 8 '11 at 20:46

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25 votes

If downvoting is so important, why does it cost reputation?

discussion feature-request down-votes asked Aug 24 '10 at 18:01

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22 votes

What should you test with unit tests?

unit-testing test-coverage asked Sep 3 '10 at 16:28

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21 votes

Is it possible to achieve a <fieldset>-like effect without using the <fieldset> tag?

html css fieldset asked Feb 6 '10 at 17:06

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for each loop in objective c for accessing NSMutable dictionary

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Why not use Double or Float to represent currency?

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Get parts of a NSURL in objective-c for iPhone

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Is learning how to use C (or C++) a requirement in order to be a good (excellent) programmer?

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What is “->” after function declaration?

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How to use /dev/random or urandom in C?

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What language is the Go programming language written in?

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What superstitions do programmers have?

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How to retry after exception in python?

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Which is the right one, nil or NULL, to mark “no Objective-C block”?

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Using '==' instead of .equals for Java strings

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Replace a substring with another substring

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Add custom messages in assert?

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Objective-C Exceptions

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Why there is -moz-XXX and -webkit-XXX in the CSS3?

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How do I determine if a web page exists with shell scripting?

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Is ++x more efficient than x++ in Java?

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Is there a SELF pointer for blocks?

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Howto check if a char* points to a string literal in C

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Do I encode ampersands in <a href…>?

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Converting File Path From NSString To NSURL

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ucfirst() function for multibyte character encodings

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mysql_real_escape_string VS addslashes

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get_object_vars() vs. cast to array

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Get path from URL

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What's wrong with my memcpy?

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About leave in x86 assembly

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Using C Headers in C++

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converting Binary Numbers in to decimal numbers

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Is it possible to create a 1million x 1 million matrix using numpy?

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