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JetBrains Rider suggests that I change this (for example): public class Foo { public int OnePlusOne { get; } = 1 + 1; } to this: public class Foo { public int OnePlusOne => 1 + 1...
First you want to make your new branch at HEAD (current main). Then you want to point main back to origin/main. # Create new branch git branch new_branch_name # Point main back at origin git ...
(Speaking personally, not for the team.) People using git are usually using it in a software context, and Software Development's scope is intentionally broad, so they definitely fit here. This is...
They aren't actually that different from natural language. But more verbose. Given some generic pseudo code looking like one of the C family languages: if( !egg.boiled || !egg.peeled ) { do_no...
tl;dr git merge origin/branch_name Or rebase instead of merge. I'm also assuming your remote's name is "origin" (which usually is, for most cases). But of course this explanation is valid for ...
There is no keyword or compile-time construct to prevent this, but it can be accomplished through the use of a runtime exception: class Parent { public Parent() { if (getClass(...
Normally, whenever a function designator (a function's name) is used in an expression, it decays to a function pointer to that function. typeof is one of those exceptions to the "decay" rules of C...
What are some legitimate use cases for raising a NotImplementedError exception in Python? How can it help express a code author's intentions to aid code maintenance and/or further development of co...
When reading about various operators used by programming languages, the term "short circuit behavior" is often used. For example in this C code: int a = 0; a && b++ Someone explained t...
It looks like your vertexSizeBytes stride variable doesn't include uvSize. To figure things like this out, use this kind of logic: The shape of the image isn't a square, so something is wrong wit...
What specific algorithm makes it possible to scramble data into an unrecoverable form, yet still be usable for its intended purpose? It isn't any one specific algorithm. There are many differe...
They are tools for different audiences. pipx does not replace pip. In some more detail, pip answers the question "As a Python developer, how can I install Python packages and their dependencies" w...
No, you can't use and for this. In Python, a and b always, always, always means b if a else a. It cannot be overridden and cannot mean anything else. Likewise not, and any other boolean keywords, ...
Among other things, a URL consists of a host and a path: I was wondering (and couldn't find anything) if there's a name for the combination of host and path. Is there a name for these: examp...
I want to write one or more self-answered Q&As on the topic of text encoding in Python, to serve as canonicals and preempt future lower-quality questions. I can think of the following things th...
Import modules rather than names first to avoid a circular reference in the import statements; then use forward declarations, as before, to avoid a circular reference in the type annotations - like...
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I don't actually know the answer to this, but I'll post a provisional one while we wait for someone wiser than me to chime in. I think this is a small subset of the real answer. Don't forget the...
Is software system design on topic for the software development site? For what I mean by system design, consider the "system design interview" commonly held these days when recruiting software eng...
No. Terms like "too generic", "unclear", "too broad", "off topic" are absolutely not euphemisms for "stupid question, go away". They mean what they say; and when they are used Somewhere Else, mult...
In git you can put your current changes aside for a moment with git stash. This is really neat but what often ends up happening is that you forget what was in there, and what was the state of the b...
Let's say I have a client/server application with a data structure on the server side: type User = { name: string; superSecretGovernmentIdNumber: string; }; These fields are both non-nul...
This sounds to me like someone had a problem once and they've decided upon a somewhat silly way to keep that from ever happening again. The big repository hosts have a different way of addressing ...
Suppose I have some code in a file myscript.py like: def my_function(): print("Test") What steps do I need to take in order to make my_function run? That is to say: how do I get Python to ...
C prohibits accessing an array out of bounds even if measures were taken to ensure that what should lie outside those bounds were known: struct MyStruct { int x[2]; int y, z; }; static...
