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From the docs Example to exclude everything except a specific directory foo/bar (note the /* - without the slash, the wildcard would also exclude everything within foo/bar): $ cat .gitignore...
Why do we have the "Participate Everywhere" ability when we haven't yet done anything? Bootstrapping. Our communities are still small, so after we rolled out the abilities system we decided to p...
Yes, it is safe unless the variable is volatile. The term used in the C99 standard for the value of an "uninitialized" variable is indeterminate. From C99 standard: Section 6.2.4 Storage duratio...
The problem is that you are using row twice with different types. for row in self.diagram: # row is str here for row in self.seed_diagram: # row is list[str] here Renaming one or the other m...
Can anyone explain to me why my Haskell function gives rise to a type-definition error? Originally, I wrote the following function to subtract one from the first n elements in a list: dec_first :...
The modulo operator is a binary (2 argument) operator which returns a single value, and can be used for both numeric calculations and strings: x = 5 % 2 print(x) # prints "1" y = "hello %s" % ...
Here's a JSON log formatter for Python. I want to be able to log details of exceptions (and have some capability to debug-by-logs). I want to be able to log extra data in JSON format (in addition...
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I can't speak for the people who designed it, but I guess it was made this way because you can merge multiple branches all at once. Let's say I've created multiple branches: C---D => ...
Why does git merge take the source branch rather than the destination branch as a parameter? The most common merge case by far for me is "Okay, this branch looks good, let's merge it into branch X...
These questions are very helpful to the person asking, and great for driving activity. I think it is good to allow these questions to be asked and to answer them. At the same time, they are not go...
You can use pipreqs It will automate the generation of a requirements file. This can spare you the annoying dance without necessarily mixing environment setup and script execution.
I have a dataset of car bookings like this: car_id user_id 1 1 2 1 1 2 3 3 1 2 3 3 In this dataset, two separate groups/sets of cars and users...
The pip command accepts an option --index-url to specify the primary index (defaults to PyPI) and zero or more --extra-index-url options to specify secondary indices. So for your use case, try pip...
Background I can see the need to use { } when implementing a function-like macro such as this one: #define HCF(code) fprintf(stderr, "halt and catch fire"); exit(code); Because if we use the f...
I remember reading @meriton's comments on that question and thinking they were good feedback; if I hadn't seen them there, I would have written something similar. This is also an argument against ...
Regarding "snark" - it is very hard and subjective to define. Our overall code of conduct says "be nice", but where do you draw the line. On SO, general gruff attitude tends to be treated very diff...
In SO, I had saw that a person was writing lot of abusive words inside code. Just like, if(a==b){ print("f***") } I had flagged on that post with little bit explanation. The user gave ...
I have a mobile-only HTML contact form divided in source code into three sections; each section should contain fields by a different context. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> ...
Proposal: Can Include Helpful feedback I'd refrain from restricting the topic of feedback, because there are many possible topics: Clarifying the question Explaining why OP would be ...
I agree that these buttons should have tooltips explaining what the buttons are for. That would be far more useful than showing the result of a simple calculation on the displayed votes, and seems ...
If I understand correctly what you are asking for is a static code analysis tool for PHP. A quick search reveals that Psalm would be such a tool.
While learning JavaScript, I started to see =, == and === operators. What's the difference between them?
You can now add "category:###" to a search, where ### is the number in the URL for the category, to restrict the search to one category. For example, Software Dev Q&A is 38 and Code Review is ...
Placing <script> in the <head>: Placing <script> in the <head> might affect the performance since the content won't load until the browser complete downloading the JavaScri...
