If you're in trouble and cannot find an answer to a question which goes beyond Stack Overflow...

If you have a not-so-usual solution for your problems but need to justify it to your boss...

If you like to think on your own rather than blindly follow "common wisdom" and "profound truth"...

...then 'No Bugs' Hare on Soft.ware might be the right place for you.

Your mileage may vary. Batteries not included

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

IT Hares are not different. And they have more than just quite a few bits to share about programming…

All Not so Common Wisdoms about Programming, page 4:

C++: Thoughts on Dealing with Signed/Unsigned Mismatch

posted March 6, 2018 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“we’re just narrowly avoiding a disaster without understanding how close we were”
Another Quote:	“there is a chance that intuitive::lt MIGHT be a good thing to make behaviour of our C++ code to correspond better to our-expectations-when-we’re-reading-it”
	[→]

posted February 27, 2018 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“the bug MUST be reproducible”
Another Quote:	“did you know that in a case of a signed integer overflow, compiler is allowed to generate code which formats your hard drive?”
	[→]

posted February 20, 2018 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Hey, if all I have is lemons – I have no choice but to make lemonade out of them!”
Another Quote:	“if reproducible serious bugs are ignored for many months, it indicates one of three possibilities”
	[→]

posted January 18, 2018 by Anastasia Stefanuk

Quote:	“Descriptive style takes its roots from the «chain» pattern, in which the methods enclosed in classes return some reference on themselves.”
Another Quote:	“Business-driven testing or BDT allows non-technical members of any development team a stronger involvement in the development process by allowing them to comprehend test cases and even create their own. “
	[→]

posted October 31, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“The point of Super-Replica is that it is a replica Slave DB which is larger than original Master DB”
Another Quote:	“this “don’t write some HISTORICAL data to Master DB” approach can easily allow to reduce the load on the Master OLTP DB by a factor of 2x-3x”
	[→]

posted October 24, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“there are still several Big Fat Reasons™ to use DIY replicas”
Another Quote:	“With the Replication Messages described above, it is ok to apply Replication Messages to Slave DB which is newer than exactly necessary.”
	[→]

posted October 17, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“if we can commit several transactions at the same time – RDBMS needs to fsync() our DB logs to physical disks only once”
Another Quote:	“if going our preferred way of single-writing-DB connection – make sure NOT to use RDBMS-level Group Commit”
	[→]