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Elias Van Ootegem
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I work -or have worked- with:

  • Go/Golang (weapon of choice ATM)
  • NoSQL: Couchbase, Cassandra
  • SQL: MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • PHP
  • C (ANSI C99)
  • Perl & Bash
  • current OS's: Linux (Slackware, Fedora)

I don't like:

  • Java
  • Solutions that are needlessly complex
  • COBOL
  • Answers with Regular expressions to solve a problem that didn't require Regex's
  • Java

Stuff I find to be true:

  • Java is the new COBOL
  • If your solution relies on more than 3 regular expressions at any given time, you're part of the problem.
  • 'Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.' — Brian Kernighan
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I want to remove double quotes from a String
Oct 3, 2013
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Nullable return types in PHP7
Nov 9, 2015
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How to get element by class name?
Jul 31, 2013
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Best way to get child nodes
Apr 30, 2012
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Does every Javascript function have to return a value?
Jun 27, 2013
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How do I replace all occurrences of a string in JavaScript?
Mar 1, 2012
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Return nil for a struct in Go
Jun 5, 2018
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How to use 'strict' mode in Chrome 'JavaScript Console'
Jun 23, 2014
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Difference between mt_rand() and rand()
Feb 27, 2015
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How to get the real and total length of char * (char array)?
Jan 9, 2014
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Class for reducing development time
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Possible SQL injection vulnerability searching for a product by ID?
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PHP form with bot deterrent
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