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Comment Post #286003 I strongly recommend you don't do this. The LDAP server has to do it all anyway when you register the user after passing your own code, and you can never have a guarantee that your own code exactly matches the LDAP server's tests. And merely passing a syntax check locally still allows plenty of other...
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #284849 `char str = "Hello";` should not compile in any C compiler.
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almost 3 years ago
Suggested Edit Post #284243 Suggested edit:
Lifted the OP's actual questions into the title. Enough guessing already about what he meant.
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declined about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284178 '4.3 billion, which is only 43 $M': no, it is $4,300M. Stil not enough for government work ;-)
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #281926 PHP is so poorly defined that it would be rather difficult to attach much meaning to the concept of 'syntax error', let alone the extended checking that a lint program would be expected to perform.
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over 3 years ago
Edit Post #282010 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Answer A: What makes a software module an "authentication" module?
The purpose of authentication is to establish the identity of the peer, and the number of ways to do that is infinite. Any software that accomplishes that objective can be categorized as authantication software. Your question is therefore ill-formed. But no competently written piece of software is...
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #281385 @JohnDoes 'Ill-formed' in that it proposes a test via specific requirements when the number of ways to accomplish the task is infinite and need not include any of those proposed.
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #281418 You have confused compression in artefacts like JPEG and MPEG, which are both lossy, with data compression in general, which in general isn't lossy. Defragmentation has absoultely nothing to do with any of it.
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #281385 The purpose of authentication is to establish the identity of the peer, and the number of ways to do that is infinite. Any software that accomplishes that *objective* can be categorized as authantication software. Your question is therefore ill-formed. But no competently written piece of software is ...
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over 3 years ago
Edit Post #278659 Post edited almost 4 years ago
Suggested Edit Post #278659 Suggested edit:
(void*) has nothing to do with it. A pointer to any type can be null.
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helpful about 4 years ago
Comment Post #278173 1. Operator precedence specifies in what order *operators* should be *executed* not just parsed. Order of evaluation specifies in what order *operands* should be *evaluated*. There is some interaction between these concepts, but for example it is very useful to know that in Java all operands are eval...
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about 4 years ago
Comment Post #278220 Design patterns are largely a solution looking for a problem. The original GoF book was worthwhile, *in part,* but the susbsequent attempt to reduce the whole of computer science to design patterns was not.
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about 4 years ago
Comment Post #277896 @jla Actually you are parsing HTML. No other way to do it.
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about 4 years ago
Comment Post #277537 The paragraph starting 'During optimization, a compiler tries to store as many variables as possible inside registers' needs further work. This is entirely untrue of any variable allocated statically, and it is also untrue of any variable that has its address taken, special compiler optimizations apa...
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about 4 years ago
Comment Post #277896 No. HTML is a context-free language, and regular expressions only handle regular languages. You need a parser. Specifically, you need a schema validator.
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about 4 years ago