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I have a Makefile in my Jenkins job's workspace, that I want to edit out certain parts from and then save it, before running next part of the script that uses this Makefile. The part that I want t...
There's one big difficulty with the proposed pattern. Enum instances are singleton instances of their particular class, and in general two enums from different classes are not equal even if they wr...
To understand the concept of recursive tree traversal, I would like to give you an analogy. Imagine a labyrinth of rooms connected like a tree structure. That is, there is an entry to the first r...
The concept that is important to understand here is the concept of operator precedence. Assume you have an expression a + b * c. What does it mean? You could have the following options: (a + b) ...
Let's say I have a variant that can hold a bunch of different types of values (say I got them from parsing a JSON or similar). using Value = std::variant<std::monostate, int, double, std::strin...
Say we have an abstract class Foo declared as so: class Foo { public: virtual void test() = 0; }; Let's say that we make a derived concrete class FooDerived, and decide to mark it's ve...
This scenario is not yet a problem for this site, but we will get there, since it's a huge problem for Stack Overflow: Someone just picks up a well-known programming language for the first time. T...
Yes I would allow UI/UX questions with some limitations. Examples: on topic - UI/UX questions related to an interface that also involves some programming (e.g. web interfaces) offtopic -...
I've noticed that a lot of sites have something like this going on: <div class="has-margin-0 has-padding-4"> <div>...</div> <div>...</div> ... </div>...
How can I get an email when I get a notification on Codidact? I missed an answer because I thought I would get an email for it.
Now that we've had a few of these answers, I really don't like them. It seems there are three separate problems with the ChatGPT answers we have seen: Quote-only. Just like we don't allow link-o...
In addition to Q&A, Codidact supports another post type, article. Articles can be used for blog posts, wiki pages, and other resources. Articles, like questions, use tags, so searching for a ...
I would like to see questions asking for help finding resources be considered on topic, but I would suggest creating a seperate category for them, like how Photography and Outdoors have one for Gea...
In order to test that coredumps are generated and that they contain useful information which can be retreived with gdb I need to generate a SIGSEGV. Or anything else which causes a coredump. The co...
Why parenthesis don't work as you expect You seem to have a rough idea how the this keyword is resolved, so I'll skip explaining that and go straight to your question. I was surprised to find that...
Qt's SLOT macro is very specific in what it accepts. When specifying a slot in the connect function, it's required to put parenthesis, so the correct code would be: connect(ui->pushButton, SIGNA...
The best practice here is, Don't deploy your .git folder to your web server. Then there's nothing to protect.
Although spreadsheets were never really intended for text processing, I think a formula solution is possible (LibreOffice 5.4.3.2): For the first example above: =(LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"XYZ",""...
I agree that company name tags should not be used, since tag can point to a product, framework etc. and that tag description includes the information about the owner of the product. Of course, for ...
I was thinking about meaningful content that can be migrated (+ improved) from Stack Overflow. These categories pop into my mind: closed questions: we know Stack Overflow is very picky when it co...
As Lundin points out, there are quite a few whitespace-sensitive programming languages out there, where automatic wrapping would change the apparent meaning of the code, such as Phython or JavaScri...
Code blocks that are wider than the column they're trying to fit in now get horizontal scrollbars. As noted in another answer, it's not safe to assume that line-wrapping won't change the correctne...
tl;dr: No. From an engineering perspective, you might be asking if a concatenation operator can be used in place of a logical ‘and’ operator. This is obviously specific to a particular language, bu...
I believe the term "hook" comes from the Windows API where you can register "hooks" - callback functions - to respond to certain events, optionally replacing the original behavior. Not necessarily ...
The best way to estimate this is to measure it, for instance by importing a backup of the production database into a new instance and run your scripts there. Short of that, you could consult the ex...
