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I find myself often writing code like this. try { // code } catch( FailedReadException const & ex) { file.close(); std::cerr << "Read failure " << ex.readFailure() <&...
The concept of field separator has some private cases in different operating system shells and their utilities (IFS on Bourne shell and derivates, RS on AWK and perhaps more) but I am having troubl...
As the comments in that thread mention, Captcha is a service, not mere software. The distinction is that Captcha are in an arms race with spammers, and must continually evolve to remain effective. ...
This can't be done with the standard library. It's quite common for people who want to do this to define their own extension method public static void Foreach<T>(this IEnumerable<T> it...
For some tasks, I find git show-branch easier to follow than git log. For example, inspecting the history on someone's PR before merging it. git show-branch master topic stops at the first common ...
I've just started playing around with pygame and have written a small game in it, of which I'd like a review. Note that I'm not only a complete beginner in pygame, but I also have very little exper...
The size of the "primitive data types" int, float etc is not defined by the standard. In practice, int is either 16 or 32 bits on all known systems. Because of the unspecified size leading to poor...
I'm rather new to using git, so I'm not sure about the best practices regarding it. I have a feature branch branched off, and periodically when the feature needs to be updated I will add some commi...
The problem Given a string s containing just the characters '(', ')', '{', '}', '[' and ']', determine if the input string is valid. An input string is valid if: Open brackets are closed by ...
According to this answer, Codidact uses highlight.js for syntax highlight, and "support whatever languages are enabled by default in that package". And according to this table (in highlight.js Git...
While learning JavaScript, I started to see sometimes the <script> is placed in the <head> and sometimes it is placed in the <body>, What's difference between placing the <scri...
Assignment = = is the assignment operator. There's nothing much to say here. Abstract Equality == == is abstract equality - it will attempt to perform a type conversion before evaluating equalit...
Short version As you probably know SO offers Stack Overflow for Teams as a product for a knowledge management tool for private use (private teams). I am wondering if it is possible for Codidact t...
I wrote this HTML sanitizer for use in web scraping. The idea is to safely copy content from a site but apply my own style-sheet and remove any unsafe elements. This whitelist approach seems very d...
There are multiple questions/aspects in your posts, so I will go one by one: Stack Overflow which answers many questions While this is true, for many questions SO has an important drawback. I...
That's nice that you're provided your attempts but, as it was already mentioned in comments, it would be better to show us all the parts. Again, if you're not sure how to write it properly in C# th...
The standard for multi-line text input is to use a textarea. Don't use input type="text", it won't work. I'm not sure why you don't want to use a textarea, but after reading this answer, I hope you...
Power Users has just been launched and I remember that Software Development has some content related to office suite usage (example). Is it OK to migrate these questions to the Power Users communi...
Our web site has a widget that displays some date-based information that we retrieve from some JSON-formatted data (one object per date). We get the current date from the environment, possibly adj...
First of all, we need to understand what a JavaScript Date actually is. And surprisingly, it's not exactly a date (at least not in terms of having unique values for day, month, year, hour, minute a...
A simple way to deal with this is flex, wrap your 3 columns in a flex container: <div class="container"> <div class="formField"></div> <div class="formField"><...
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Context Our team has begun migrating a pretty old internal application and one aspect that got my attention is the impersonation. This is implemented as follows: only administrators are allowed...
We have a bunch of dead branches in our git repository, and I'd like to clean them up. Ones that were merged (but not deleted at the time) are easy; we can see those in the branch list on Bitbucke...
From the command line, the following command will give you a list of all authors who have made local-only commits to a branch some-branch: git log some-branch --not --remotes --format="%an" And...
