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How should I deploy my Full Stack Angular Application (MEAN Stack) project on free hosting website? Github I have provided below the github link of the project for the better understanding. Prob...
Consider the following method as an example: List<int> Foo() { // ... } Are there any disadvantages of returning an interface instead of a concrete implementation in C#? IList<i...
I've heard that in modern C++, smart pointers are preferred to raw pointers for ownership (the so-called RAII principle, as I understand it). This makes sense, and since then I've always used them...
I'm trying to do some DOM manipulation in jQuery, but am having issues with creating wrapper elements. For some reason, prepending to the wrapper doesn't work after I call wrap. Code <html>...
There may be a better way to manage website's with JavaScript deployments. I added jest to my repo simply to execute tests when I make PRs as part of a GitHub action. This requires a package-lock.j...
Using parentheses in Javascript is always needed when you want to create functions, if/else statements and for/while loops. But in Python it has a function that is called tuples. When using an if s...
Let's consider the following code: const char a[][4] = {"aa", "aaa"}; const char *b[] = {"bb", "bbb"}; const char *const c[] = {"cc", "ccc"}; For shared libraries, both b and c arrays require...
Consider this code: #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { static void *ptr; if(ptr == NULL) puts("It's NULL!"); } I wonder if this is guaranteed to print "It's NULL!" I know ...
What factors should be considered when choosing web security measures for a site?
When I tried to emulate the app that I coded in the connected phone, it keeps closing due to crashes, is there any problem with my code? Also, I am trying to make a timer app with picture and pict...
This data tree is comprised of clickable buttons and I want to expose all branches, in a single action, instead of clicking each vertical arrow button anew. I have tried the following code which d...
I am interested in finding out all the aspects I need to cover in order to correctly assess if a user has stopped interacting with a web page. So far, I found the following: Idle Detection API -...
For my company, I'm writing naming conventions for embedded code in C language. Function names must be named in lowerCamelCase() and start with a verb. Global variables are in Maj_started_lowe...
What does this function definition mean in Haskell? fn x [] = [] fn x (True:ys) = x : fn x ys fn x _ = []
Our team will have to migrate an old application to use a new tech stack. One of the features involves the usage of HTML editors which serialized the content as HTML and I am able to see valid HTML...
Background story: I'm on mac OS 11.6 and would like to access an identifier for the current space/desktop from the command line. I found a helpful article at https://ianyh.com/blog/identifying-spac...
If I am not mistaken any DOM "tree" node is actually a "branch", which would be an HTML element or perhaps a CSS pseudo-element, of course. If that's true what are the different node types and esp...
I'm using the os.rename function in a lua script. It works perfectly fine for renaming files on my hard drive, e.g. os.rename("test.txt","/Users/username/Desktop/test2.txt") will rename the fil...
I am trying to check a JSON array for a certain element. However, when I try to instantiate a JsonElement to search the list for: JsonElement builderElement = JsonParser.parseString( "{\"disc...
In Vim, it's possible to tell it to read from stdin instead of a file, by using vim -. This is so that you can pipe the output of one command into Vim, to view/edit it there. The problem I'm facin...
I have a code block like this: try { ... x.foo(); // This is the line that forces us to have the try block ... } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) { logger.error(e.getM...
I have float noise values, between -1 and 1, for every x,y coordinate in a 2D area and I am trying to convert that to a whole number between 0 and 319 which represents a vertical z coordinate to re...
In a Qt application I have nothing more than a window with a button as its direct child. I set its background color and all is fine: Window::Window(QWidget *parent) : QWidget(parent) { but...
The Code using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore; public class BloggingContext : DbContext { public DbSet<Blog> Blogs { get; set; } public DbSet<Post> Posts { get; set; } ...
I try to ignore paths in the Codeql code scanning file. But every scan it seems that scanning doesn't ignore these files, do you have any tips?
I noticed when attempting to generate random booleans that t and f are not treated in the same way: t random ! Error f random ! returns a value In the factor 0.98 and 0.99 documentation, t is ...
I have console scripts in my virtual environment in \env\Scripts, installed with packages (e.g. black, pytest, coverage). If I try to execute these in Git Bash, the output is not returned to the te...
I am developing a web app that is tied to a database. My codebase is stored on a private GitLab instance. I would like to set up a workflow that would look something like this: I have a developm...
I am trying to define a syntax word as follows: USING: kernel syntax parser fry prettyprint ; IN: syn-try SYNTAX: syn scan-word '[ _ ] . ; Given a word, I want to create a quotation conta...
I am trying to understand this code: const iframes = iFrameResize( [{options}], [css selector] || [iframe] ); The code can be found in this documentation. Is [{options}] an array of objects an...
I am trying to listen to the event in which the keyboard key containing the Hebrew final-letter ך is pressed. This key stands for both the English letter L and the Hebrew final letter ך. If my op...
Problem How can I compress each column of a dataframe to the output of a function (i.e., mean), preserving columns? MWE import pandas as pd data = {"A": [1, 2, 3, 4], "B": [5, 6, 7, 8]} ...
One of the recent business requirements is to be able to search through a list of entities using a bunch of filters. Most of these filters allow multiple values and the user might theoretically pro...
I am trying to re-build an unpacked apk, because it was unpacked the required libraries are already included, deleting the prepacked libraries would be feasible if it weren't for the fact that some...
I am currently using this code to display a GUI counter: USING: accessors arrays fonts kernel math math.parser ui ui.gadgets ui.gadgets.buttons ui.gadgets.editors ui.gadgets.labels ui.gadgets.pa...
Title says it all. I found "Step into external code" but not sure if it's the same feature.
I have noticed that lots of projects (both in real-world and within online courses) use Automapper to map domain models to view models, API models. The main advantage seems to be convenience by re...
Having recently learned about protocols in Python, I now wonder if you can write a protocol for enumerations. That is, a protocol that says that you are supposed to pass an enum that has certain it...
I have written a screensaver program that, in part, uses the current wallpaper for some visual effects. However, finding the current wallpaper in different operating systems and environments is les...
I'm trying to make a UWP app in Visual studio, but the NuGet package files have been huge. They just don't fit on my SSD, but I do have an HDD I could theoretically use. After a bunch of tinkering...
I am working on a replit https://AppropriateMessyRoutes.ozabramo.repl.co and I am trying to implement https://github.com/VincentGarreau/particles.js as a background but I keeps on pushing every...
I have two strings and want to remove every occurrence of the second string inside the first one starting from the beginning of the first string and as if each occurrence was removed immediately. ...
Hey, regarding a question on returning pointers as functions, why does my code produce this error & won't print out the sum = 6? #include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> int *A...
#include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> int main (void){ FILE *cfPtr; char name[15]; int ID; if ((cfPtr = fopen("draft.txt","w")) == NULL){ printf("File could n...
What (if anything) does the C standard have to say about linking objects? My guess is that, because C only defines language->behavior rules, it completely ignores any potential intermediate form...
This revolves around images. I'm trying to write an HTML page of COVID-19 safety procedures, and here's what I've written so far: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title&...
So to preface I started a new JavaFX project in IntelliJ and all of this is from what was auto-generated out of the box. The modules I'm having trouble with are Edit to make this post more query...
In a website I didn't build, I want to put a value in an HTML input field element with JavaScript and to also use it as-putted. I can put it with the browser console this way: document.querySelec...
This program creates a child process and shares two integers (base and height) through the shared memory. The parent process asks four times to insert two integers and wait for the child process t...
Is it possible to add listeners via VBScript/ JS directly into a SRSS report? Goal: Track changes of input fields and key press inside the wrapper React based on the events Directly in the...
