Telastyn

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How do I get people to stop bikeshedding (focusing on trivialities)?

design communication knowledge-transfer asked Nov 21, 2013 at 2:21

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How to help women feel welcome on a male dominated team?

software-industry gender asked Apr 15, 2015 at 17:53

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72 votes

What would it take for society reach a point where the time it takes to learn leaves no time to discover?

technological-development asked Dec 10, 2014 at 15:31

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Would people develop spoken language if everyone was telepathic?

language telepathy asked Jan 6, 2015 at 21:09

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I am making 4-5x more story points than average, but producing bugs at half the rate. Graphs say it's 2x more bugs, how to deal with that?

productivity code-quality bug asked May 15, 2014 at 13:19

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35 votes

Do people need to be positive to be promoted?

management promotion leadership asked Oct 28, 2014 at 14:48

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How do companies hire people for positions where years of experience doesn't correlate to skill?

hiring-process work-experience asked Oct 7, 2014 at 20:19

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27 votes

Is there a good reason to make pure functions non-public?

design pure-function asked Sep 26, 2014 at 14:41

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Why implement a lexer as a 2d array and a giant switch?

compilers lexer pragmatism asked Oct 1, 2014 at 14:04

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25 votes

How can I diagnose async/await deadlocks?

c# debugging async asked Oct 20, 2015 at 20:04

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Should we avoid language features that C++ has but Java doesn't?

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Why is Clean Code suggesting avoiding protected variables?

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My manager told me to stop helping a (supposedly) underperforming coworker. What are my options?

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Overcoming slow problem solving due to increased knowledge of what might go wrong

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Employee questioning company policies too much - what should we do?

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Is it right to expect my co-workers to have the same dedication to work as me?

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How does one title a resignation email?

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Why did SQL injection prevention mechanism evolve into the direction of using parameterized queries?

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When writing object-oriented code, should I always be following a design pattern?

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How much freedom should a programmer have in choosing a language and framework?

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Fixing a spelling mistake in a method name

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Someone I manage keeps cc'ing my boss

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Team constantly fails to meet sprint goals

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When is unit testing inappropriate or unnecessary?

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Is it inadvisable to make a function that essentially renames a built-in function?

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If two individual branches pass unit tests, once they're merged, is the result also guaranteed to pass unit tests?

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How do you figure out if you're on a Death March?

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How does a non-technical manager add value to team of self-motivated software developers?

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How do you track what you and your team are working on day-to-day?

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How do unit tests facilitate design?

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Why are interviewers unaware of what's on my resume?

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Why does the TRACE level exist, and when should I use it rather than DEBUG?

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Is it appropriate to ask to be excused from a chew-out meeting?

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Why is agile all about the test-driven development (TDD) and not development-driven test (DDT)?

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As the 20-year old founder of a startup company, what can I do to get older, more experienced people to take me seriously?

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Is my usage of explicit casting operator reasonable or a bad hack?

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Unit testing classes that have online functionality

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Does having a higher paid technical job mean you do not get to code any more?

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What if I will not use Software Design Patterns?

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What are the potential benefits and pitfalls of leaving tenth grade early to pursue an internship at a prominent research lab?

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