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Jim Ferrans
  • Member for 17 years, 4 months
  • Last seen more than 1 year ago
  • Chicago, IL
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Work on "next-generation television". Prior work includes voice and multimodal user interfaces, database system software, graphical design tools, DSLs, and Y2K auto-correction software.

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Efficiency of Java "Double Brace Initialization"?
May 29, 2009
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What's an appropriate HTTP status code to return by a REST API service for a validation failure?
Dec 25, 2009
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What is an idempotent operation?
Jul 3, 2009
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Why do pythonistas call the current reference "self" and not "this"?
Jul 3, 2009
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Does the order of fields in a WHERE clause affect performance in MySQL?
Oct 27, 2010
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How to design scalable applications?
May 25, 2009
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Which is the best alternative for Java Serialization?
Mar 14, 2011
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Kryo serialization library: is it used in production?
Apr 27, 2010
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Use of Java's Collections.singletonList()?
Jan 26, 2011
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Kryo serialization library: is it used in production?
Apr 30, 2010

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What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in source code examples?
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How well do nginx and memcached work together?