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Karl Bielefeldt
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I've written software for everything from network equipment to Apache helicopters. Now writing enterprise platform software in Scala, with some tools in Python.

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Torvalds' quote about good programmer
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How do you write unit tests for code with difficult to predict results?
Oct 8, 2018
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Is it always a best practice to write a function for anything that needs to repeat twice?
Jan 13, 2015
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Is there such a thing as having too many unit tests?
May 3, 2017
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Why do library developers deliberately break existing code?
Sep 2, 2021
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What does it mean when data is scalar?
May 6, 2014
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Is static typing worth the trade-offs?
Mar 18, 2011
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How do quick & dirty programmers know they got it right?
Dec 13, 2011
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Novice programmer(s) frustrated by lack of a glossary of compiler errors
May 18, 2018
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How do you justify more code being written by following clean code practices?
Mar 18, 2019
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