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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.

BTW, #SOreadytohelp

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Top Questions
51 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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36 votes

Was Apollo 13 radio blackout on reentry longer than expected?

apollo-13 asked Jul 17 '19 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 '19 at 16:40
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20 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 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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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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12 votes

How long does a hard disk spin after power off?

hard-drive hardware-failure spinup asked Oct 1 '20 at 14:20
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9 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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9 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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Top Answers
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What are @JsonTypeInfo and @JsonSubTypes used for in jackson
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43
Pass complex parameters to [Theory]
stackoverflow.com

33
Were any IBM mainframes ever run multiuser?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

25
Dealing with oversized files decades ago? Data transfer in the age of floppy disks
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

22
Managing difficult employees
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21
80286 can switch from real mode to protected mode - but why not back?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

18
Are there situations when self-assignment is useful?
stackoverflow.com

15
Why does KCl come in amber coloured bottles?
chemistry.stackexchange.com

13
What is this thing hanging from a wire from the front headliner at the top of the windshield?
mechanics.stackexchange.com

13
Disciplining hard-working but insubordinate engineer or his superior?
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12
What was the earliest system to explicitly support threading based on shared memory?
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12
What was the DEC Type 30 vector graphics display used for?
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11
Is becoming an Amazon seller profitable? Is it worth paying for a course?
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11
How to handle colleagues who are unwilling to write a bug report?
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10
Why do we need a weak_ptr in C++11?
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10
Why use static RAM addresses instead of the stack?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

9
Is RabbitMQ capable of “pushing” messages from a queue to a consumer?
stackoverflow.com

9
Why does std::pair expose member variables?
stackoverflow.com

9
How does Expedia manage to sell a room significantly cheaper than the hotel itself?
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9
What were the first BASIC interpreters to be programmed in high-level languages?
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8
How can Microsoft say the size of a word in WinAPI is 16 bits?
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8
How was the Triwizard Tournament supposed to be entertaining for the audience?
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8
Why does the Room of Requirement connect to the Hog's Head instead of the school's kitchens?
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7
Out of memory when create big array [,]
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7
What was the main purpose of bitshift instructions in CPU?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

7
Why is working on the same position for more than 15 years not a red flag?
workplace.stackexchange.com

7
Tools from other disciplines useful to mathematics research?
mathoverflow.net

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
Why is a condition_variable not MoveAssignable
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