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Questions tagged [knowledge]

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Which are the significant algorithms for humankind in past decades?

Which world most important algorithms have contributed most to humankind in past decades? I thought this is a good general knowledge for a developer to know about. Update: If possible, please keep the answer to a specific programming algorithm. I…
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Saying "no" to people asking questions

Possible Duplicate: When do you not give help to less experienced programmers? Currently, I am finding a lot of my day is taken up by people asking domain knowledge/system questions. This impacts personal productivity. Should developers learn…
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Enterprise knowledge sharing?

I recently read this article on knowledge sharing and immediately recognized the same problem within my own organization. My main goal now is to 'kill peer-to-peer collaboration' as the default method of communication for non-private, system related…
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Is the science of Computer Science dead?

Question : Is the science and art of CS dead? By that I mean, the real requirements to think, plan and efficiently solve problems seems to be falling away from CS these days. The field seems to be lowering the entry-barrier so more people can…
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Do I need to understand the Internals of a programming language?

I am beginner to Python and I really like it so far. One question that comes to my mind very often is if I need to understand and therefore learn the Internals of a programming language (as in my case Python). As you might know, Python itself is…
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Domain knowledge vs Programming

Possible Duplicate: How important is Domain knowledge vs. Technical knowledge? I often hear from my colleagues and sometimes from interviewers that, "There is nothing so great in having excellent programming knowledge. One must gain the domain…
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Do some programmers know some secrets that we others don't?

I will not bother you with details of my discussion so I will present it in the form of a short instance. A java guy has been following articles and publications of a famous programmer (a kind of Martin Fowler of my country). He says that he is…
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Template for Knowledge Transfer

I have been working for more than a year for this company. Now they want me to create a KT Document for reference. Is there any template available for me to document the coding done by me..
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Shortest Path Between Two Nodes in a +10 Million Nodes Graph

I have my own knowledge graph representation, read from ConceptNet and NELL, containing tens of millions of nodes in which I want to calculate the nearest distance (if any) between two concept nodes. The application is to find out how two concepts…
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Slugify via helper or store slug on database?

I have a simple question: Slugify via helper or store the slug on database? I mean, let's suppose that I have Guilherme Oderdenge on database and I want to transform it into a human-readable URL such as http://myapp.com/guilherme-oderdenge/, what's…
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Class diagrams and frames

UML class diagrams (1st pic) and frames (which belong to knowledge representation and artificial intelligence) (2nd pic) look pretty alike. But do class diagrams exactly type of frames or they just look similar?
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What does a programmer really need to become a professional?

There are huge numbers of programmers, especially juniors, who need good assistance in becoming professional. I've heard a lot of about "books every programmer should read", etc. I have two years of programming experience, feel good in C++, but…
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Some Insight on the Field of Knowledge Representations and Reasoning

I started following an MS in computer sciences after about two years of work for a software company. I worked primarily in data warehousing and business intelligence related software development during my previous occupation. There is a high chance…
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Format text in a generic and reusable way

I would like to write some long text in some structure to allow a set of operations on that text. The question is which structure or format should I use, which suits best the use that I plan to do of that text? Next I describe that use: I would…
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Effective way to gain practical knowledge

I am currently nearing the end of my first year of my CS degree and have been disappointed with the lack of coding I have been asked to do (one unit). I am basically looking for an effective way to gain practical knowledge but am unsure where to…
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