S.L. Barth

28 Yahoo finance recently discontinued their API. I have been looking for alternatives. The ones I've found so far are Google Finance and Quandl. Google Finance was deprecated in 2011 but still appears to work somewhat. However, there is little to no documentation, and I need to pull dividend data which I was unable to find. Quandl appears to work well but the data is spread across multiple databases which makes getting appropriate access timely and costly.

61 Should I reuse variables? I know that many best practices say you should not do it, however, later, when different developer is debugging the code and have 3 variables that look alike and the only difference is that they are created in different places in the code, he might be confused. Unit-testing is a great example of this. However, I do know that best practices are most of the time against it. For example they say not to "override" method parameters.