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134 votes
11 answers
254k views

How to make one Observable sequence wait for another to complete before emitting?

73 votes
5 answers
106k views

Is there a benefit to using a return statement that returns nothing?

21 votes
7 answers
7k views

What is the point of PHP's SplDoublyLinkedList class, and more importantly, Linked Lists in general?

19 votes
1 answer
14k views

Garbage Collection and JavaScript "delete": Is this overkill/obfuscation, or a good practice?

17 votes
3 answers
12k views

What does PHP's gc_enable function do exactly?

16 votes
4 answers
5k views

PHP Unit Testing without a framework... Possible? Advisable?

13 votes
3 answers
7k views

PHP Unit Tests: Is it possible to test for a Fatal Error?

12 votes
3 answers
19k views

How can I calculate a trend line in PHP?

11 votes
2 answers
22k views

JavaScript: Invalid quantifier in regex

8 votes
5 answers
2k views

Is this overkill, or good use of CakePHP's HTML helper?

7 votes
3 answers
951 views

Besides singletons, what are some compelling reasons to use static methods in PHP?

6 votes
4 answers
522 views

Normalizing this database: what would be ideal in this scenario?

6 votes
9 answers
4k views

What is a more elegant solution to these nested if/elseif statements?

6 votes
2 answers
5k views

jQuery .attr('type', 'submit') on a button element giving me a strange error in IE7

5 votes
4 answers
554 views

Unit Testing: Explain the usefulness of Mock Objects [duplicate]

5 votes
10 answers
557 views

What's the right way to handle "One, Both, or None" logic?

5 votes
3 answers
205 views

Is this code too brittle?

5 votes
1 answer
38k views

Using CASE, WHEN, THEN, END in a select query with MySQL

4 votes
1 answer
1k views

How can I add a new jquery deferred to an existing $.when?

4 votes
2 answers
10k views

How can I get a random cell in OpenOffice Calc?

4 votes
2 answers
230 views

Is this possibly an impossible MySQL query?

4 votes
4 answers
4k views

Can I use a ternary in a PHP class method return statement?

4 votes
6 answers
2k views

How to normalize a database where different user groups have different kinds of profiles?

3 votes
3 answers
238 views

Why does this regular expression fail?

3 votes
2 answers
2k views

Backbone.js | How can I store elements of a view for retrieval later?

3 votes
1 answer
350 views

Enabling payments on the mobile web breaks our app in native iOS

2 votes
1 answer
489 views

Why are these RxJS observables producing strange outputs?

2 votes
4 answers
408 views

jQuery: What is more efficient? Many ID specific selectors, or one "Contains Prefix Selector"

2 votes
1 answer
78 views

MVC conundrum: How can I solve this problem and keep logic out of the view?

2 votes
3 answers
2k views

Why is CakePHP duplicating my queries? (this is not the same "too many queries" problem that is usually asked)