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davidbak

Seattle, WA

http://www.bakins-bits.com

I've been programming for 35 years and I'm still learning new things. My major interests recently are programming models and methods for concurrency, applications of functional programming, and doing interesting things with Mathematica.

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Top Questions
43 votes

Is Jackson's @JsonSubTypes still necessary for polymorphic deserialization?

java json jackson json-deserialization asked Jul 28 '15 at 0:36
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33 votes

Was Apollo 13 radio blackout on reentry longer than expected?

apollo-13 asked Jul 17 at 5:31
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23 votes

Suppose leased car is totalled: what are financial implications?

united-states car-insurance auto-leasing asked Jun 9 at 16:40
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19 votes

Why was Marisa Tomei nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role instead of Best Actress?

academy-awards my-cousin-vinny asked Jan 24 '17 at 4:31
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16 votes

Can things created by the Room of Requirement be removed from the Room of Requirement?

harry-potter asked Mar 16 '16 at 22:07
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14 votes

What does the abbreviation “RNIO” mean in a painting of the Virgin and Child?

symbolism art passion-of-jesus asked Mar 13 '16 at 19:13
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14 votes

What is this thing hanging from a wire from the front headliner at the top of the windshield?

honda accord sensor part-identification antenna asked Apr 4 '16 at 23:06
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9 votes

How is video transmitted in the car? (E.g., from backup camera to NAV display.)

can-bus backup-camera asked Feb 16 '16 at 23:37
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8 votes

Why did the Mars team drag 56 days of food into the Hab for a 31 day mission?

the-martian asked May 19 '18 at 3:13
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7 votes

How do you set/get/use the name of a block in TPL Dataflow?

c# .net task-parallel-library tpl-dataflow asked Jun 28 '14 at 17:51
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Top Answers
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Pass complex parameters to [Theory]
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26
What are @JsonTypeInfo and @JsonSubTypes used for in jackson
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25
Dealing with oversized files decades ago? Data transfer in the age of floppy disks
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22
Managing difficult employees
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18
Are there situations when self-assignment is useful?
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16
80286 can switch from real mode to protected mode - but why not back?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

15
Why does KCl come in amber coloured bottles?
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13
What is this thing hanging from a wire from the front headliner at the top of the windshield?
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12
Disciplining hard-working but insubordinate engineer or his superior?
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11
How to handle colleagues who are unwilling to write a bug report?
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10
Why use static RAM addresses instead of the stack?
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9
How does Expedia manage to sell a room significantly cheaper than the hotel itself?
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9
Why do we need a weak_ptr in C++11?
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9
Why does std::pair expose member variables?
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8
Is RabbitMQ capable of “pushing” messages from a queue to a consumer?
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8
How was the Triwizard Tournament supposed to be entertaining for the audience?
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7
Out of memory when create big array [,]
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7
How can Microsoft say the size of a word in WinAPI is 16 bits?
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7
Why is working on the same position for more than 15 years not a red flag?
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6
Why did Mark remove the heat shield and escape hatches from the MAV?
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6
What was the main purpose of bitshift instructions in CPU?
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6
How to politely handle support requests which lack some basic understanding?
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6
Global include path on Windows on VS2013
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6
Is there a clean way to allocate a variable size object on the stack, if the size is known at compile time?
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6
How to convert integer 999999999 to float 999999999.0 instead of 1000000000.0 in C#?
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6
looking for title of young adult book of city under glass dome and all wore identification tracking bracelets
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5
How was MAV fuel plant able to make fuel using hydrogen so quickly in the end?
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5
“”.All(char.IsNumber) Returns True
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5
Read tens of thousands of Files and write to millions of files in Java
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5
Why is a condition_variable not MoveAssignable
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