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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

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Access TypeScript class outside bundled code

I'm developing the design framework for a certain Q&A site. We are currently using an external dependency for the tag selector on the post editor, but it has some disadvantages (not fitting int...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ArtOfCode‭

javascript typescript namespaces
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Why don't format specifiers work with lists, dictionaries and other objects?

When I want to print a number or a string, I can use f-strings (Python >= 3.6) or str.format, and I can use just the variable between braces, or use format specifiers. Ex: num, text = 10, 'abc' ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 5y ago by sth‭

python python-internals
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What is undefined behavior and how does it work?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Lundin‭

c undefined-behavior
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Can renaming a MySQL column be sped up by dropping indexes or foreign keys?

I need to rename one column in 170 tables in a MySQL database and its going really slow. The columns all have an index plus a foreign key on them, would dropping the index/temporarily removing the...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Charlie Brumbaugh‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by manassehkatz‭

mysql database-index table-column
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How to upgrade a recent (>= 8) Angular CLI?

Angular CLI official page indicated how to install the CLI, but provides no information about how to upgrade it. I am interested in how to upgrade the CLI.

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Alexei‭

angular angular-cli upgrade
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Does using an Integer have any speed/performance benefits over a string in JSON

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...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Welz‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by .                                                .‭

string integer json optimization
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Is it undefined behaviour to just make a pointer point outside boundaries of an array without dereferencing it?

I have heard that it is undefined behaviour to make a pointer point outside boundaries of an array even without dereferencing it. Can that really be true? Consider this code: int main(void) { ...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by klutt‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by hkotsubo‭

c undefined-behavior pointers
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Different behavior with relative imports when using flask vs py

I have a small new Python 3.8 Flask project with some relative import quirks. For the DB I use SQLAlchemy with Flask-Migrate. My project has the following general structure: controllers/ static/ te...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by luap42‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by ajv‭

python flask relative-imports