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319 votes
12 answers
92k views

Wrapping a C library in Python: C, Cython or ctypes?

140 votes
7 answers
61k views

Threading in a PyQt application: Use Qt threads or Python threads?

63 votes
14 answers
5k views

Code Golf: New Year's Fireworks [closed]

59 votes
8 answers
11k views

Reclassing an instance in Python

42 votes
2 answers
14k views

Does a SQLite Foreign key automatically have an index?

35 votes
7 answers
7k views

Asking browsers to cache as aggressively as possible

25 votes
2 answers
12k views

Find out whether the current activity will be task root eventually, after pending finishing activities have disappeared

20 votes
3 answers
3k views

Filtered index condition is ignored by optimizer

16 votes
5 answers
7k views

Does SQL Server guarantee sequential inserting of an identity column?

12 votes
3 answers
3k views

Changing the window title when focussing the window doesn't work in Chrome

12 votes
6 answers
9k views

Simple non-web based bug tracker [closed]

11 votes
1 answer
1k views

Global regex match timeout works in console application, but not in ASP.NET MVC app

7 votes
4 answers
779 views

Approaching refactoring

7 votes
2 answers
818 views

Handling close-to-impossible collisions on should-be-unique values

6 votes
1 answer
2k views

requestAnimationFrame is passing unexpected parameters in IE10

5 votes
3 answers
664 views

Reason for unintuitive UnboundLocalError behaviour [duplicate]

5 votes
2 answers
89 views

Surprising behavior of re-assigning a variable for every row in a select

3 votes
1 answer
388 views

What is the purpose of the typeTok argument to the CIL's stelem instruction?

2 votes
0 answers
275 views

DOM elements attached to the window object via their ID -- expected behavior? [duplicate]

2 votes
3 answers
905 views

Extend an existing API: Use default argument or wrapper function?