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Generally speaking, if two groups of people collaborate on the same software, I'd recommend they put everything in a shared git repository: Documentation is intimately tied to the version of the ...

posted 2y ago by meriton‭

Facts In relational theory, each row in a relation is uniquely identified by a primary key. That's why some purists say that every table should have a primary key. Foreign keys usually reference a ...

posted 2y ago by meriton‭  ·  edited 2y ago by meriton‭

I think a branch is a set of commits and a commit is a set of deltas, so my concern is that merging feature-B to master would reflect only the work that is unique to feature-B Not quite: a bra...

posted 1y ago by meriton‭

questions about software design, software architecture, or modeling questions related to software design/review - what item goes where when using a certain technology stack These seem redundant...

posted 2y ago by meriton‭

questions about best practices as long as enough detail is provided to answer using external references or expertise consensus It's not a "detail" if it is essential, is it? Can we explicitly sta...

posted 2y ago by meriton‭

As the comments in that thread mention, Captcha is a service, not mere software. The distinction is that Captcha are in an arms race with spammers, and must continually evolve to remain effective. ...

posted 2y ago by meriton‭  ·  edited 2y ago by meriton‭

You should know I am not a bot by now ;-)

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by meriton‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

In addition to what Moshi already told you: Among web designers, W3Schools has a somewhat tainted reputation, because it often makes things simpler than they really are. In my experience, this lac...

posted 2y ago by meriton‭

Personally, I'd say that it depends on the question. Over on that other site, this ban was instituted to avoid opinion-based questions. For instance, suppose you asked: Is Angular a great framewor...

posted 2y ago by meriton‭

In HTML, style information is applied to elements; it can't be applied to individual characters in a text node. Therefore, if you want to style the * differently, it needs a dedicated element. You...

posted 2y ago by meriton‭  ·  edited 2y ago by meriton‭

Caveat When making a decision of such lasting impact, you should conduct your own evaluation according to the criteria that matter to you. This post does not attempt to replace such an evaluation,...

posted 1y ago by meriton‭

Actually, while REST mandates a great many things, it does not constrain the structure of URLs. To wit: The paper that coined the term "REST" describes resource identifiers as black boxes, and make...

posted 1y ago by meriton‭  ·  edited 1y ago by meriton‭

I'm actually mainly interested in testing foo() Ok, so let's do that. I could make it public, but I really don't want to do that just so that the test class can access it Java has 4 diff...

posted 1y ago by meriton‭

questions about the system, network, or server administration Which system? I think it is clearer without "the": questions about system, network, or server administration

posted 2y ago by meriton‭

I understand data compression as making data structures nearer (if they are mere machine code without any abstract representation) or representing them in less and less abstract computer languages...

posted 2y ago by meriton‭