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Coding standard for clarity: comment every line of code?

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Has / can anyone challenge Uncle Bob on his love of removing "useless braces"?

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Return considered harmful? Can code be functional without it?

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How far can you push Object Oriented Programming?

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Loophole in the Night's Watch oath?

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Does there exist a programming language specifically designed for dependency injection?

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Is this Monster Builder a good Builder / Factory pattern for abstracting long constructors mixed with setters?

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What is priming the pump? Sometimes called a priming read

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Java generics seem to work differently for classes than for methods

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Why isn't @FunctionalInterface used on all the interfaces in the JDK that qualify?

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