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GOTO still considered harmful? [closed]
language-agnostic
goto
Ukkonen's suffix tree algorithm in plain English
string
algorithm
data-structures
language-agnostic
suffix-tree
What is a magic number, and why is it bad? [closed]
language-agnostic
terminology
magic-numbers
Can I read the hash portion of the URL on my server-side application (PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.)?
http
language-agnostic
uri-fragment
What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?
language-agnostic
concurrency
parallel-processing
Why does non-equality check of one variable against many values always return true?
if-statement
language-agnostic
logical-operators
control-flow
Why it's not possible to use regex to parse HTML/XML: a formal explanation in layman's terms
regex
language-agnostic
What are bitwise shift (bit-shift) operators and how do they work?
language-agnostic
bit-manipulation
operators
bit-shift
binary-operators
What is the difference between an abstract method and a virtual method?
oop
language-agnostic
abstract
virtual-functions
What is the difference between a deep copy and a shallow copy?
language-agnostic
copy
deep-copy
shallow-copy
Performance optimization strategies of last resort [closed]
performance
optimization
language-agnostic
What is tail recursion?
algorithm
language-agnostic
functional-programming
recursion
tail-recursion
What's the difference between a method and a function?
function
oop
methods
language-agnostic
terminology
Determine Whether Two Date Ranges Overlap
datetime
math
language-agnostic
What is the best regular expression to check if a string is a valid URL?
regex
url
language-agnostic
Prefer composition over inheritance?
language-agnostic
oop
inheritance
composition
aggregation
Why are floating point numbers inaccurate?
floating-point
language-agnostic
precision
What's the difference between passing by reference vs. passing by value?
language-agnostic
pass-by-reference
pass-by-value
What is dependency injection?
design-patterns
language-agnostic
dependency-injection
terminology
How can I pair socks from a pile efficiently?
algorithm
sorting
language-agnostic
matching
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