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Ian Newson

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Technical Director at Xibis

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Top Questions
50 votes

Invoking a constructor in a 'with' statement

python python-3.x class with-statement asked Sep 16, 2021 at 20:14
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45 votes

Did Arnold Rimmer kill the Red Dwarf crew?

red-dwarf asked Aug 18, 2015 at 20:40
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36 votes

How does GetValueOrDefault work?

c# nullable asked Apr 14, 2015 at 11:38
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34 votes

What are these little rubber "condoms" that came with my thermal paste?

desktop-computer thermal-paste asked May 18, 2022 at 22:06
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33 votes

In the UK parliament, how much of Prime Minister's Questions is pre-planned?

united-kingdom parliament house-of-commons prime-minister debate asked Feb 12, 2020 at 20:35
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28 votes

What does Eric Lippert mean by "you need to know what the base class is to determine what the base class is"?

c# language-design asked Aug 19, 2015 at 14:05
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25 votes

Are there any canonical examples of the Prime Directive being broken that aren't shown on screen?

star-trek canon prime-directive asked Apr 30 at 19:17
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19 votes

Is there any reason why 5 volts is so ubiquitous for powering small consumer electronics?

voltage history asked Jan 2, 2020 at 8:49
electronics.stackexchange.com

16 votes

Swift for in loop: use var get warning to use let, use let get error

swift asked Sep 1, 2016 at 11:40
stackoverflow.com

15 votes

Documenting and planning for technical debt?

technical-debt asked Dec 4, 2019 at 21:28
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com

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ViewPager with FragmentPagerAdapter does not show content
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Should you write your back-end as an API?
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Is java.util.Scanner that slow?
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Get parent of class of instance
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Cast result findViewById android method
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Visual Studio 2012 - MSBuild incremental build not detecting changes
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SQL query for something like "not having"?
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Project file expected at
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Either ErrorMessageString or ErrorMessageResourceName must be set, but not both error using CreditCardAttribute
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Android 5.0 - Add header/footer to a RecyclerView
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C# 7: Tuples and generics
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Modifying a query string without reloading the page
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Is there a technical reason to use > (<) instead of != when incrementing by 1 in a 'for' loop?
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Correct http error code if id passed in body not exists/invalid?
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MSBuild 15: The "Error" task could not be instantiated
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How to add the Action bar in android 2.3 platform?
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Clear a collection or re-initialize?
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counting integers in a list
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Android querying many to many relationships
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Can I wrap a javascript event in a jQuery event?
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OpenGL ES 2.0 Extensions on Android Devices
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How update textbox in a loop running on another thread in C#
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mongoexport aggregate export to a csv file
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