Top "Principles" questions

Use for questions related to programming principles; Principles describe laws or rules that according to their proponents are nearly universal truths in software engineering.

Design Principles, Best Practices and Design Patterns for C (or Procedural Programming in general)?

Are there any known design principles, best-practices and design patterns that one can follow while designing a C project? Or …

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What is the EAFP principle in Python?

What is meant by "using the EAFP principle" in Python? Could you provide any examples?

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What exactly is hadoop namenode formatting?

What exactly is involved in namenode formatting. If I type in the following command into my terminal within my hadoop …

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Principles for Modeling CouchDB Documents

I have a question that I've been trying to answer for some time now but can't figure out: How do …

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std::ignore for ignoring unused variable

Is it a good approach to use std::ignore for ignoring unused variables? Suppose I have a function like this: …

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Principles, Best Practices and Design Patterns for functional programming

Are there any known principles, best-practices and design patterns that one can follow while writing code in a functional programming …

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REST Best Practices: Should you return an entity on POST and PUT calls?

In order to respect the best practices of the REST principles, is it best to return the created/updated entity …

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