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Meta How does the community feel about resource requests?

These are fine, IMO: Here is my specification of what the program should do /--/. I'm stuck at x, (optionally: here is my code), where do I go from here? Is this implementation of x (code follows)...

posted 5y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Which abstraction should I choose for background services and why?

Which concept is best for managed background services? 1. RunAsync(CancellationToken): interface IWorker { Task RunAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken = default); } ... IWorker worker =...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Kir_Antipov‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Alexei‭

Question c# software-practices async-await .net
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Meta Are questions about web browsers on topic on Software Applications?

The site is called Software Development, not "Applications". Meaning programming. On-topic: Questions about different behavior of web browsers in the context of web application programming. Questi...

posted 4y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A How to separate DB query logic from the application other than implementing a repository on top of an ORM?

I've been doing a lot of reading on implementing the repository pattern in C# projects and found controversy, or shall I say some strong criticism, made by seemingly very smart people with previous...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Marc.2377‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Alexei‭

Question entity-framework-core database architecture design-patterns orm
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Q&A Queries to count points lying on arbitrary line

Suppose we have N points on XY plane, ie. (x, y) and x, y are integers and multiple queries where each query is of the form y = mx + c and m, c are integers. Is it possible to count number of poin...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by theabbie‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A grep AND search for multiple words in files

An alternative to grep is Awk, which makes this pretty easy. To find lines which contain both: find . -type f -exec awk '/foo/ && /bar/' {} + (Maybe add { print FILENAME ":" FNR ":" $0...

posted 2y ago by tripleee‭

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Q&A Clear selectManyMenu component if user unselects item in JSF 2

I am working with JSF 2.3 and have a selectManyMenu component that is marked as required but that I want to be cleared if the user unselects all items. Currently, the user can unselect all items, b...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by tarhalda‭  ·  edited 1y ago by BalusC‭

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Q&A Using DBUS and GTK in one perl program

I haven't developed with Perl or DBUS myself (but I have used GTK), so I can only give an answer in general terms rather than specific details. In most, if not all, GUI frameworks, the "run" or "m...

posted 2y ago by deleted user

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Meta Best practices for posting tabular data

I just found a post in Codidact Meta using showing a rendered table. Looking at the post content, it is using markdown. Playing a bit, I found that the following "plain text" (intended to show ma...

posted 2y ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Spreadsheets apps as end user development tool / spreadsheet formulas as a form of funtional programming

I have found Can we migrate office suite related questions to the Power Users community?, apparently, with a score of +7, 3 answers, but it looks like no decision have made so far. Despite not hav...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Wicket‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by LAFK‭

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Meta Merge spreadsheet formula tags into single tag

Done. I've merged all these tags together and synonymized them. I've also gone ahead and given you the ability to edit tag wikis - we're in need of people who can curate tags!

posted 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Merge [functions] with [function]

Makes sense to me! Done as of a few minutes ago.

posted 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A When is it OK for duplication of information between message header and payload in a distributed software application?

Nowadays DRY is usually with regards to code, not data. Regardless, even for data, DRY does not outlaw duplication, it just requires a single "authoritative" copy. There are certainly similar ideas...

posted 2y ago by Derek Elkins‭

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Q&A Summing values formatted for a different locale

LEFT returns a text value, so it's working as expected. You might put the LEFT function inside VALUE function to convert the value returned by LEFT into a number. This applies to other spreadsheet ...

posted 2y ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Why `excel` is set as a child tag of `openoffice-calc`?

Good question. It's not any more 🙂

posted 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Meta Why `excel` is set as a child tag of `openoffice-calc`?

I joined Codidact a few days ago. I have looked around to learn the platform features and how things are handled in some communities. I just found that excel is a child tag of openoffice-calc. I ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Wicket‭  ·  edited 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Storing more bytes than a union member has, but less than the union size, with memcpy(3)

Reading from a union member who's size is larger than that of the last written member is explicitly allowed since C99, but the value of the extra bytes is unspecified. From the cppreference page on...

posted 2y ago by GrantMoyer‭  ·  edited 2y ago by GrantMoyer‭

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Q&A How should one match a specialized version of a variant?

This can be achieved using SFINAE, making the default overload invalid for non-numeric types: template <class T, class... Types> constexpr bool in_variant(const std::variant<Types...>...

posted 2y ago by Baum mit Augen‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Baum mit Augen‭

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Q&A Running mvn validate does not show rules passed message though it should

My large, multi-module Maven project validation (Maven Enforcer plug-in) is playing tricks on me. moduleA> mvn validate correctly finds all modules runs enforcer on all of them displays co...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by LAFK‭

Question maven maven-enforcer-plugin
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Meta How can we grow this community?

I realize this might not be feasible, because course all of that hinges on the possibility to get some acceptable data on a users behavior on other sites, but for me the biggest hurdle is that to c...

posted 2y ago by cafce25‭

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Q&A Postgres command-line variable substitution error

I don't know the "real" answer, but from bash on Linux at least, it's possible to work around the issue by using -f instead of -c, using process substitution to supply the SQL: $ psql -v foo=bar -...

posted 2y ago by Andrew‭

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Meta Should I delete my trivial, lack-of-research question?

I don't think the question is trivial. Maven is very complex and confusing at first. The documentation is also quite something. It's not easy to figure out what's going on unless you already know. ...

posted 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 2y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&A For scripting what are the pros and cons of command line arguments versus capturing input at the start?

I'm coming down strongly in favor of command-line arguments or options over interactive I/O for a number of reasons: Providing arguments on the command line is vastly superior for programmatic...

posted 2y ago by tripleee‭  ·  edited 2y ago by tripleee‭

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Q&A How can I output / display multiple values, with controlled spacing, without building a string?

Using the write method The write method of a file offers a much more limited interface. It only accepts one argument - a string, for a file opened in text mode - and outputs just what it's given. ...

posted 2y ago by Karl Knechtel‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Q&A How to resolve a "ValueError: dimension 't' already exists as a scalar variable" arising when I am using xarray.Dataset.assign_coords()?

It seems like what you want to do can be achieved by using data.assign_coords(t=[0.123]) The error message is extremely confusing in this respect, but it seems like the new value for the coordi...

posted 2y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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