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sheets tag sounds a little bit too generic and I feel that it should be replaced with the more specific [google-sheets]. I know that we should avoid using company names as much as possible, but in ...
Let's say I have a script that needs the user to set X number of variables at the start. One can either Pass the arguments in on the command line. Start the program and then have the user input...
Linux questions in general are not really topic here. But Bash is. After all, Bash IS a scripting language as much as Javascript. I have a hard time thinking of a question about Bash that is not o...
When I first learned about salting, I thought the same thing. But as I understand it, because each salt is unique (or substantially unique within a given database table), storing the salt & has...
Lets say I have two tables, A and B and I need to join a subset of them. Is there best practices of sticking the conditions in the WHERE clause like this, SELECT * FROM A JOIN B on a.fk_b = b....
What exactly does the static keyword do in C? I have seen it used in several diverse contexts: 1) As a variable outside a function: #include <stdio.h> static int x = 5; int main (void) ...
I spend a lot of time writing CLI tools in Python, and I would like to support tab-completion in a style similar to Git. For example, subcommands should be tab-completable, options should expand ba...
Sometimes when I ask questions here, I get told that I should include a minimal, reproducible example. What is that?
Passwords are annoying. Nobody really enjoys passwords, which is why "The End of Passwords" articles keep circulating. I'm looking forward to the day the prediction comes true, but in the meantime ...
Search engine optimization? I thought this goes without saying, but apparently we aren't doing too well there for some reason. The other day I was having a discussion with someone at SO regarding...
I have a large and complex PostgreSQL SELECT query that I would like to make faster. EXPLAIN suggests it should run quickly, with the worst parts being scans of a few thousand rows. When run, it do...
How do I clone the repository with only part of the history? For example, let's say I want to download only the last 5 commits out of thousands.
Tldr; I don't need to parse HTML, but I need to check if user submitted input conforms to a very strict subset of HTML. Can regex be a suitable tool for this? Details I have a frontend sanitiser th...
This goes back to the various CPU architecture "wars" in the 1970s-1980s between the competitors Intel and Motorola (for example Intel 8086 vs Motorola 68000). For various reasons, CPUs from these ...
I assume "help my code isn't working"/troubleshooting posts - which make up much of SO questions - are allowed. However from reading the FAQ, it's not obvious to me that they are. The "on topic" bu...
Yes Questions about troubleshooting your non-working code are on-topic, provided that you include enough information for the community to understand the context (SO names this minimal reproducible...
I'm working on an API to respond some data about a bunch of orders and items. The order and item numbers are always an integer (it's the order.id and item.id value, respectively). Originally the re...
Generally speaking, if two groups of people collaborate on the same software, I'd recommend they put everything in a shared git repository: Documentation is intimately tied to the version of the ...
I have created this sensational program: #include <stdio.h> int* func (void) { int local=5; return &local; } int main (void) { printf("%d\n", *func()); } This prints 5 even thoug...
While Lundin has written a reasonably complete answer, I think it suffers a bit from the expert view: conflating core issues with implementation details related to modern hardware architecture. I'd...
Here I used asterisk after Node. Actually, why asterisk used for? What if I don't put any asterisk after Node (Both Node are structure). It's a pointer. A pointer, like its name implies, poin...
Several months ago we asked for temporary moderators for this community and two people stepped up. One of them later had to step back, leaving Alexei as a sole moderator. Alexei is doing a great ...
I'm using an object-oriented design for my C project and trying to implement classes with private encapsulation. How do I do this? Some things I've tried that are problematic: Using a struct f...
Bear in mind that unlike on some other question and answer sites, the "Works for me" reaction is not restricted to the author of the question. Anyone can add that reaction, whether they posted the ...
The C language has gone through many iterations and the latest one not yet released is informally called "C23", supposedly because they hoped to release it in 2023. The latest draft version N3096 i...
