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Karl Bielefeldt

Huntsville, AL

I've written software for everything from network equipment to Apache helicopters. Now writing enterprise platform software in Scala, with some tools in Python, my eighth and ninth languages I've used professionally.

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Is there any way to git checkout previous branch?
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Is it rude to leave an interview early if you have already made your decision?
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Torvalds' quote about good programmer
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Dealing with reactions from colleague about being self-taught
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How do you write unit tests for code with difficult to predict results?
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git pull displays "fatal: Couldn't find remote ref refs/heads/xxxx" and hangs up
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Is it always a best practice to write a function for anything that needs to repeat twice?
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Is there such a thing as having too many unit tests?
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Why do library developers deliberately break existing code?
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What does it mean when data is scalar?
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Is static typing worth the trade-offs?
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Novice programmer(s) frustrated by lack of a glossary of compiler errors
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Git rollback 1 pull
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Get the short Git version hash
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How do you justify more code being written by following clean code practices?
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Demonstrate bad code to client?
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How can I filter out software engineering jobs where I'll be asked to write algorithms in the interview?
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Moving large number of files
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Why aren't user-defined operators more common?
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Is using Lambda expressions whenever possible in java good practice?
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Should you let a toddler win?
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Sniff HTTP packets for GET and POST requests from an application
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My office wants infinite branch merges as policy; what other options do we have?
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My 4-year-old refers to himself as me
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Why are cryptic short identifiers still so common in low-level programming?
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Why are there no line numbers in the code listings?
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How to stop git from making files non-executable on cygwin?
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How to manage accidental complexity in software projects
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Throw exception or let code fail
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Is it the correct practice to keep more than 10 years old spaghetti legacy code untouched without refactoring at all in big product development?
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