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Raised on Codidact Meta Thanks for raising this. It turns out this affects other Codidact Communities, so it's not specific to Software Development Codidact. There's a post on the main Meta commun...
When I make a separate commit for code cleanup / style changes, I can suppress that commit from git blame so that I can follow a file's history easily without getting distracted by pure style chang...
The topic of how to implement polymorphism in C tends to pop up now and then. Many programmers are used to OO design from higher level languages and supposedly OO is a "language-agnostic" way of pr...
Inspired by https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/432242, and the relevant main-space questions. I have heard that C and C++ something called the "strict aliasing rule", which means for exa...
Some relevant history for consideration (not an answer about specific scope boundaries): When we started to discuss a programming or software community, we were concerned about premature fragmenta...
I have a DTO that contains an enum field: @Getter @Setter static class Foo { Bar bar; } enum Bar { X, Y } When I deserialize a JSON, it allows int as values: var objectMapper ...
Haskell tooling can be confusing. Both Stack and Cabal appear to be build tools with similar goals. How do they differ? Why should you pick one over the other?
I am learning how to write makefile to compile a c program. I have a directory structure like this: . ├── include │ └── library.h ├── lib │ └── library.c ├── makefile └── obj My makef...
In the current version of OpenJDK's JEP 401: Value Classes and Objects (Preview), it is said that value classes can leak data stored in their fields, and that this is potentially a security concern...
After switching to a different branch, git checkout - can move me back to the branch I came from. This is handy for times when I wonder "wait, what was that last branch again?" But this does not w...
We rolled out a fairly major update this morning - implementing our new Abilities system. However, it... didn't go as smoothly as planned; the database apparently didn't update properly with new co...
@BruceAlderman gave a good answer with different aspects that covers the most. I'm not very good at SQL, so my answer is more general. When I have to choose between two different things that are e...
#NotABugForOnce This is down to language guessing. If you don't tell the highlighter what language your code is in, it guesses. Sometimes, it guesses wrong, like here. I've edited the post and ad...
I nominate Alexei, who has a body of well-received posts on Q&A and meta, both asking and answering, and seems interested in helping to organize and expand this fledgling community.
For holding ordered sets of keys, there are well-known data structures (the red-black tree, for example) that support O(log(n)) lookup and insertion algorithms. Of course this means that there triv...
I have JSON that looks something like this: {"id":"n-fsdf-6b6", "name":"JohnSmith", "revisionDate":1591072274000} The JSON data is named CharacterInfo. It comes from a static external URL. The str...
Off-topic questions about which tools, frameworks, or technologies to use, unless they are directly related to development (e.g. code, schema changes documentation tools) I propose removing thi...
One of the fonts available (to me) on Google Docs is Caveat. The following is in 18-point Caveat on Google Docs: I found that Caveat is available at https://github.com/googlefonts/caveat/tree/ma...
I am using MediatR in an ASP.NET Core 3.1 application and I want use a generic query and a generic request that deals with getting lists of some standard items I am using in drop-downs and similar:...
These questions boil down to "what are do the people who curate the site want to maintain?" The higher the percentage of people who do that curation (and that includes closing and deleting content ...
JSON is a standard. Performance is implementation specific and dependent on what is being done with the data. The answer really depends on what your environment is. Some languages may have slight p...
How does the community feel about resource requests? For example: I have been working on a project recently. By which I mean: mostly stumbling through by trial-and-error. The particular open source...
How about this for bash: #!/bin/bash echo "What is your web application root?" read web_application_root web_application_root="$(envsubst <<< "$web_application_root")" echo web_...
I want to match standard email syntax (lowercased English, numbers and perhaps also some hyphens and underscores) with regex for a sed operation that matches and changes a single email address insi...
C# language version 8.0 introduces limited support for static methods, operators, etc. in interfaces. However, there are still limitations. I was hoping to use the new language features to try a ge...
