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Meta Tags are highlighting while my favourite tags is empty

My favourite tags is empty. Although, some tags are highlighting. Usually, I was using another account earlier. I forgot (lost that gmail address) password (I can reset but, I don't want to use tha...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Anonymous‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Alexei‭

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https://software.codidact.com/posts/277536/278390?sort=score At the point when I'm posting, the answer by Lundin has +14 score and the answer by dmckee‭ has +11 score. Neither has any down votes. ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Unfair accusation in a comment and consequent loss of *actual* reputation

Thanks for raising this on meta. Indeed the comment author admitted to making a mistake by accusing of copy-pasting from Wikipedia and I have removed all the comments. However, now my answer is ...

posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A What's the difference between =, == and === operators in JavaScript?

Assignment (=) = is the assignment operator: it assigns a value to "something". One important detail is that an assignment expression not only assigns a value, but it also returns it. This allows...

posted 3y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 3y ago by hkotsubo‭

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Meta How much research effort is expected from the asker by the community?

Should someone be warned when their question lacks for effort? Actually, we don't know about their effort. Nor do we actually need effort, itself. What we need are particular results of effort...

posted 3y ago by meriton‭

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Q&A Validate All Object Properties with JSON Schema

If the names of the properties in the jobs and people objects are variable, you can use the patternProperties keyword instead of the properties keyword in the respective schemas for jobs and people...

posted 4y ago by elgonzo‭  ·  edited 4y ago by elgonzo‭

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Meta Do we need more specific up/down vote reasons for Software Development community?

I prefer the current way. Regarding tooltips Experience shows that tooltips can survive a lot of time being obsolete. In SO in meta they have "This answer is useful" and "This answer is not usefu...

posted 4y ago by Estela‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Estela‭

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Q&A What might happen if I ignore warning?

Warnings most often mean "here is a bug which will likely cause your program to crash or misbehave". They do not mean "here's something that you can optionally fix when you can spare the time". See...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A How to make the text box such that its placeholder goes up and arranges itself in the centre of the border upon clicking?

The basic ideia is to create an input with a "fake" placeholder, and a span that will serve as the actual placeholder text. Then you group both inside a label, like this: <label> <inpu...

posted 3y ago by hkotsubo‭  ·  edited 3y ago by hkotsubo‭

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Q&A Using http.get to get page from frontend

To start, Angular is a Single-Page Application (SPA) framework. This means your whole "site" is served from a single web page. Any apparent navigation within that site is just (Angular's) JavaScrip...

posted 3y ago by Derek Elkins‭

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Meta An edit creates a new tag instead of adding correct one

History of edits to the Q shows that status-bydesign tag was added but instead a new status-by-design tag is created.

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by FoggyFinder‭  ·  edited 3y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A Are there practical reasons for designing a method-only class/object?

The question has since been changed to specify certain languages that are not strictly object-oriented. Leaving this answer for anyone coming here looking for info about object-oriented languages. ...

posted 3y ago by Dana‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Dana‭

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Q&A How do I filter an array in C?

First a meta note. Code golf isn't a great way to learn a language. It explicitly optimizes for something that generally isn't valuable (fewer bytes of source code) typically at the expense of aspe...

posted 3y ago by Derek Elkins‭

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Q&A How can I test my front end for accessibility to the blind?

I haven't actually tried used them myself, but other people on teams I'm on use the following free screen readers to check how a site works in them: On Windows: NVDA On Mac and iOS: VoiceOver ...

posted 4y ago by Peter Cooper Jr.‭

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Q&A Changing the font of a certain cell within a JTable

I am trying to change the font type and size in a JTable cell. Ive looked at tons of posts and while most don't produce stack traces, they don't seem to do anything either. Here is the code I curr...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by cuzzo‭  ·  edited 4y ago by cuzzo‭

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Q&A Not obligating http:// or https:// in a url field of a contact form

input type="url" works like this by design: An empty string ("") indicating that the user did not enter a value or that the value was removed. A single properly-formed absolute URL. This doesn'...

posted 4y ago by Alexei‭

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Meta Enable text-area for comments to be resized

The comment box is now resizable; drag the control in the lower right corner down to make the area bigger. -- Update: With the later introduction of threaded comments, the comment box lost its re...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A yyyy/mm/dd instead expected dd/mm/yyyy format in PHP-created-HTML output

The date is sent in the form submission in ISO 8601 format (year-month-day). You can reformat it in the form handler as follows: $input_date = $_REQUEST['cf_input_date']; if ($input_date) { ...

posted 4y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A PHP variables aren't expanded when inside HTML which is by itself inside PHP

In PHP the single quotation mark ('x') is reading the content as raw values. This means, that escape sequences, such as \n, or variable interpolation, such as $x, is not supported. There are three...

posted 4y ago by luap42‭

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Meta I didn't get notification after user mentioning me in comment

It's because of the comma. Our comment-ping notification system isn't particularly smart and gets tripped up fairly easily, including by punctuation, so that ping wouldn't have worked. We've got s...

posted 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A How to properly deal with impersonation in a Web application? (security vs. usefulness for tech support)

My first instinct would be to track both identities, using one for access control, and the other for audit purposes. For instance, rather than storing: User createdBy; you'd store User create...

posted 4y ago by meriton‭

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Q&A Appropriate HTTP status code for "user confirmation required"

I'm working on a system where the frontend will make a call to the backend to perform an action. Sometimes this action can cause other unintended consequences (like charging the customer), in thes...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Welz‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Alexei‭

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Meta Should we allow UI/UX questions in our community?

I think it should be on-topic with the following distinction: On-topic Technical questions regarding to UI, including mark-up language syntax, how to set properties in RAD tools, how to use gra...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A In the current development context (2020+), is there any reason to use database triggers?

This is somewhat of a non-answer because I also think the answer is mostly "no". I'll split kinds of triggers into three categories. 1) Those that only touch the affected rows, 2) those that addit...

posted 3y ago by Derek Elkins‭

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Q&A What are the disadvantages of using auto mapper libraries?

I have noticed that lots of projects (both in real-world and within online courses) use Automapper to map domain models to view models, API models. The main advantage seems to be convenience by re...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Alexei‭

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