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Posts by Alexei
I am not a Java developer, but a C# .NET one, but I guess static concept is very similar between the two. As in many areas, it depends, but for most applications using static should be avoided: ...
I have created this tag because reading lines from the standard input stream is a basic task found in many programming languages. I have also noticed that the tag exists on SO, but this is only to ...
Not returning a value on all code paths is error-prone because the function might not return the expected value in the non-covered cases. That is why it is better to explicitly return a value. As ...
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 ...
Short version As you probably know SO offers Stack Overflow for Teams as a product for a knowledge management tool for private use (private teams). I am wondering if it is possible for Codidact t...
There are multiple questions/aspects in your posts, so I will go one by one: Stack Overflow which answers many questions While this is true, for many questions SO has an important drawback. I...
I think there are two aspects here: What to do about offtopic questions? Being offtopic should trigger a close/flagging action. I see voting mostly related to the post quality (useful, shows some...
Note: this is mostly a personal preference that I use when moderating the posts Generally, no While "Hello" and "Thank you" are noise (overhead) for the questions and answers, they are also part ...
From time to time, I am filling in some information for the Software Codidact tags and I realized that for some tags I filled the information twice. An example would be winforms which I almost cer...
If I try to rename a tag to an existing one it silently fails. Example: trying to rename data-archiving to archiving fails with console error only: application-f4dc10c11dc65439a992f7c98cb554bfbc...
Asking customer service-related questions is generally offtopic unless there is a connection to the software development process. Taking your examples one by one: How do I get my Facebook deve...
Not a direct answer, but it should clarify some things. It redirects me to where the variable was declared Yes, this is called "go to definition/declaration" and it works out of the box in ma...
Context Our product owner has realized that some entities are duplicated from time to time and that a merge is required. This should clean up existing duplicates and also allow special users to me...
I don't think this is possible in MySQL due to its computed columns limitations: Literals, deterministic built-in functions, and operators are permitted. A function is deterministic if, given th...
After upgrading a Web application from ASP.NET Core 3.1 to ASP.NET Core 5.0, it worked fine on an existing server. However, when deployed on a server that had only .NET 5.0 installed, the applicat...
I have reached OpenAI's support and one way to generate more accurate multiline responses is to use a clear separator between each question and answer block of text. My final working code is the fo...
I think I have found the cause of this issue: Changes default behavior of driver to not validate server certificate if client did not request encryption with "encrypt=true" but encryption was en...
I have recently an issue at work after upgrading an ASP.NET Core 3.1 application to .NET 5. It worked correctly on all environments (e.g. PreProd, Prod) when targeting 3.1, but failed on Prod only ...
If I understand correctly what you are asking for is a static code analysis tool for PHP. A quick search reveals that Psalm would be such a tool.
The help center includes a rather generic (it's the same for all communities) article about voting. Recently a user flagged a question asking why it had received so many downvotes. While flagging ...
I have finally received access to a trial account on OpenAI and I took it for a spin. My interest is with code generation, so first tried something simple using the playground: Q: generate a stand...
Overview Our development team is currently trying to develop and migrate a Web application that is split in two: legacy: ASP.NET MVC 5, jQuery, old-style JS programming overall "next": Angular...
Power Users has just been launched and I remember that Software Development has some content related to office suite usage (example). Is it OK to migrate these questions to the Power Users communi...
General information As indicated in the comments you are looking for something similar to the Facade pattern. It is still not clear what you are trying to achieve, but the X class seems that it wi...
I had a curiosity about how much the experienced users wait for their questions to be answered on Stack Overflow and had written a query for it: SELECT YEAR(q.CreationDate) * 100 + MONTH(q.Creatio...
