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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

Posts by samcarter‭

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Q&A Conditionally ignore files in git

I'm using git for LaTeX projects and am in a little dilemma about how to best ignore files. if I add *.pdf to my .gitignore file, I keep forgetting to force add included graphics if I don...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A How to add vertical lines for visual separation in pandas plot

One possibility with axvline: import pandas as pd import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(9, 4), columns=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']) df.plot.bar() plt....

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Using Lua's `os.rename` to rename a file from a hard drive to a new location on a USB flash drive

I'm using the os.rename function in a lua script. It works perfectly fine for renaming files on my hard drive, e.g. os.rename("test.txt","/Users/username/Desktop/test2.txt") will rename the fil...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Q&A cannot initialize a variable of type 'CFDictionaryRef'

Instead of reinventing the wheel, I would use SpaceInfo, a nice little command line tool to retrieve the current space number.

posted 3y ago by samcarter‭

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