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Adrian McCarthy
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I'm a life-long programmer with a variety of interests, including ray tracing, text processing.

I've written a murder mystery about a software engineer who discovers that solving a crime is a lot like debugging a program. Check out Blue Screen of Death at your favorite ebook retailer. A second novel, Access Violation, is in the works.

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Are single-character constants better than literals?
Jul 6, 2016
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What is the point of unit tests?
Jun 14, 2023
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How does this switch statement do "multiple things"?
Jun 11, 2021
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How do you safely delete a piece of code that looks like it's never entered?
Mar 8, 2017
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Why use multi-purpose getters that take an enum value, rather than separate getters?
Jan 28, 2019
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Never make public members virtual/abstract - really?
Sep 5, 2019
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Is it possible to build a system to generate UUIDs where every UUID is guaranteed unique?
Jan 16, 2024
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Should the solution be as generic as possible or as specific as possible?
Nov 30, 2017
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What data structure could a word processor use to map the user's caret position/text selection to its internal representation of the document?
May 12, 2021
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Should I choose repeated code in unit test or test logic? Can I avoid both?
Apr 3, 2022

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Why does C++ disallow anonymous structs?
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What is the difference between \r and \n?
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Would you explain lock ordering?
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How to avoid code duplication implementing const and non-const iterators?
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How to screen shot a UAC prompt?