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How come the Federation did not routinely use projectile weapons against the Borg?

star-trek star-trek-tng borg asked Feb 2, 2011 at 1:45

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71 votes

How to sort BibTeX references in reverse chronological order?

bibtex cross-referencing sorting asked Oct 23, 2010 at 18:41

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44 votes

What happens to global variables declared in a DLL?

c++ windows dll asked Sep 16, 2008 at 18:56

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28 votes

In A Song of Ice and Fire, do the bastards of commoners also get "natural" surnames?

a-song-of-ice-and-fire asked Aug 17, 2012 at 14:21

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27 votes

How is it that the outer planets in Firefly are not frozen?

firefly terraforming asked Apr 7, 2011 at 3:47

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21 votes

What do you do when a sentence ends with a decimal?

punctuation numbers period asked Sep 19, 2011 at 20:45

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18 votes

Element-wise array replication in Matlab

arrays matlab repeating run-length-encoding elementwise-operations asked Dec 22, 2009 at 17:23

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17 votes

How to set a range of elements in an stl vector to a particular value?

c++ stl vector variable-assignment asked Jul 16, 2009 at 16:19

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16 votes

Is hamsa allowed?

gentiles segulah ayin-hara-evil-eye sorcery-magic-kishuf symbols-symbology asked May 27, 2011 at 21:32

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14 votes

What is the cost of using a pointer to member function vs. a switch?

c++ function-pointers asked Sep 22, 2008 at 4:15

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What's "P=NP?", and why is it such a famous question?

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280

What is your best programmer joke?

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260

What is your best programmer joke?

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229

What is a "static" function in C?

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199

Design by contract using assertions or exceptions?

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183

When are Getters and Setters Justified?

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145

Can I see the currently checked out revision number in Tortoise SVN?

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100

At what point during a project is it unreasonable to leave?

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Why did Daenerys follow her brother's bidding at all? What was their relationship like before the events of the first episode?

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Should I learn C before learning C++?

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How to get the type of a variable in MATLAB

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Why do we use the HSV colour space so often in vision and image processing?

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Determine the size of a C++ array programmatically?

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Intentional misspellings to avoid reserved words

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What are the rules for calling the base class constructor?

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How do you declare an interface in C++?

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Are `break` and `continue` bad programming practices?

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Returning a const reference to an object instead of a copy

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When Did Vulcans Change from No Emotions to Buried Emotions?

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What do you feel are characteristics of a mature programmer?

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General programming techniques to speed up coding time

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How do I check if an object's type is a particular subclass in C++?

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What is a good programming language for AI?

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Are there any subtle hints towards Lord of the Rings in A Song of Ice And Fire?

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Are there any redeeming characters in Game of Thrones/SOIAF?

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Difference Between Correlation and Convolution in the Context of Image Processing

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What is the use of const overloading in C++?

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Code maintenance: To add comments in code or to just leave it to the version control?

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Is !! a safe way to convert to bool in C++?

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pure-specifier on function-definition

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