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Schwern

Portland, OR

25 years of experience in software engineering and releasing critical Open Source infrastructure software. Rather than learning the latest hot framework, I focus on the techniques and patterns which are the foundation for good software, and the "intangibles" of software engineering, architecture, and process.

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Top Questions

How do I find the next commit in Git? (child/children of ref)

git version-control asked Feb 15, 2010 at 2:04

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How do I turn off automatic notification subscription for new repositories in a single organization on Github?

github asked Aug 3, 2014 at 19:14

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What happens if I ignore my Fallout Shelter game for two weeks?

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Why don't PHP attributes allow functions?

php language-design php-internals asked Oct 18, 2010 at 14:48

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Why did Captain America crash the Hydra bomber?

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What happens when anti-matter falls into a black hole?

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How do I initialize a composed struct in Go?

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How do I get the Perl debugger to not stop at "100 levels deep in subroutine calls"

perl debugging asked Aug 25, 2010 at 2:56

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What was with the giant location titles?

analysis marvel-cinematic-universe captain-america-civil-war asked May 27, 2016 at 21:02

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How do I alias a database in MySQL?

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Top Answers

What is the difference between public, protected, package-private and private in Java?

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Do vote counts for Joe Biden in the 2020 election violate Benford's Law?

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How do I install g++ for Fedora?

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What are the pros and cons of XML and JSON?

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Did the UK homicide rate go up after handgun ownership was banned?

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Why didn't Germany blockade the Strait of Gibraltar during WW2?

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Does drinking diluted chlorine dioxide protect against COVID-19?

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Git SVN error: a Git process crashed in the repository earlier

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On 1941 Dec 7, could Japan have targeted the Panama Canal instead of Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack?

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Do Milankovitch Cycles fully explain climate change?

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When did people decide that all caps means the writer is shouting?

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Call has possible formatting directive

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Why does public mains power use 50-60 Hz and 100-240 V?

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Why were Navajo code talkers used during WW2?

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Does the ratio of ¹⁴C in the atmosphere show that fossil fuels are not the dominant cause of global warming?

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Do "solar panels require 10 times the minerals to deliver the same quantity of energy as a natural gas plant"?

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Why did archery not make a comeback when armor was phased out in the 18th century?

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Why bother to attack in trench warfare?

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During the War of the Ring did Sauron or Saruman actually win any major battles?

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How can I obfuscate (protect) JavaScript?

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What damage did anti-tank rifles hope to inflict on tanks in WW2?

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How do you fix a bad merge, and replay your good commits onto a fixed merge?

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How could Saruman lose the battle of Helm's Deep?

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Is this alternate history plausible? (Hard Sci-Fi, Realistic History)

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How can I build a door to repel a horde of zombies?

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Is there a code obfuscator for PHP?

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How can I install a specific version of a set of Perl modules?

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What is a Git commit ID?

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Why doesn't the Falcon-9 first stage use three legs to land?

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Did the Soviets excel in one area of weaponry during World War II?

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