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For most of us, programming (or more generally – software development) is all the life is about.

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All Software Herecies about Programming, page 13:

If they wrote it in a book, it MUST BE GOOD CODE! Or How many mistakes can fit into 100 lines of book tutorial code? Part 2

posted August 31, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Abstract:	There are books and there are books. Some of the books can be trusted. Some are to be avoided.
Quote:	“While the detection of pointer parameter being NULL is almost universally a good idea, having it silently ignored might lead to difficult-to-find bugs.”
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posted August 24, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Throwing away 1400 bytes for no reason for every single network message is an outrageous waste”
Another Quote:	“Having this kind of stuff in your code is like having a time bomb: it will explode, and for any sizeable project if will usually happen sooner rather than later (unless, of course, “later” is the worst possible time for the explosion to happen)”
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posted August 3, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Abstract:	2D scaling is a headache.
Quote:	“For us (as developers) it is important to know that the difference does exist, and that we should be ready to store graphics with larger sizes even when we personally don’t see the need to do it.”
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posted July 20, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“What is practically very important – is to keep all the “unsanitized” data in one place.”
Another Quote:	“What will happen if attacker got the whole database of your users’ passwords?”
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posted July 13, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Design of secure protocols is a thing which even security professionals have lots of problems with.”
Another Quote:	“In the security field, if you can disable something unused – you SHOULD do it”
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posted July 6, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“In addition, if TCP_NODELAY is set, it MIGHT help to mitigate consequences of exponential backoff algorithm in case of lost packets.”
Another Quote:	“All of us are seeing ‘hung’ HTTP connections on a regular basis – that is, when we’ve clicked a link, and the page loading is stuck forever.”
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posted June 29, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“In general, lag and jitter are not specific to UDP, and manifest themselves for absolutely any Internet connection.”
Another Quote:	“If you need a globally-reachable server with single-digit-ms lag for all the players, it is simply not possible”
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