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| Edit | Post #286317 |
Post edited: declare variable rather than polluting window |
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| Edit | Post #286317 |
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| Edit | Post #286317 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Delete all occurrences of a character in a webpage with vanilla JavaScript With the help of a little recursion, it's straightforward to go through all text nodes and replace their contents: ``` function replaceIn(e) { if (e.nodeType == Node.TEXTNODE) { e.nodeValue = e.nodeValue.replaceAll("a", ""); } else { for (const child of e.childNodes) { repl... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #286151 |
In this case, the image was actually helpful because it revealed that OP was invoking the compiler by hand rather than using the built in eclipse compiler. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #286155 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Java cannot find class within same package eclipse has a built-in compiler. When developping in eclipse (or any other Java IDE), you can run from eclipse, you can package as a JAR file from eclipse, and even run a full fledged maven / gradle build from eclipse. There is no need to ever run javac by hand when you have a Java IDE. One reason... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #286038 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Mocking methods with arguments You mean, aside from giving the team that made `B` a stern talking to? ;-) You could introduce another layer of indirection, and mock that. For instance like this: interface MockFriendlyB { public void add(T arg); } class UnmockedB implements MockFriendlyB {... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #286019 |
Well, I'd prefer:
```
assertEquals(13, fun(42).getY());
assertEquals(10, fun(43).getY());
assertEquals(16, fun(44).getY());
assertEquals(133, fun(47).getZ());
assertEquals(1, fun(3).getZ());
assertEquals(16, fun(2).getZ());
```
which makes it way more obvious that the blocks invoke dif... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #286019 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: How to create an object, call one of it's methods and pass it as an argument as a oneliner? It seems to me that you are hobbling yourself by making design constraints more absolute than they need to be. For instance: You don't want to change the code under test, not even a tiny little bit. You don't want to introduce a helper function, because helper functions clutter the code (is tha... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #286013 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: How to unittest method that involves contacting remote servers? > 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 different access modes: `private`, default access, `protected`, and `public`. The typical solution is to u... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285942 |
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| Edit | Post #285942 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Why is my last input box not centering (class: powerwall-battery-input)? To investigate such problems, open the developer tools of your browser, and use the inspect this element feature to inspect the bounding boxes of the various elements. in Chrome: press F12 to open dev tools click the icon at the very top left of the dev tools, which has a tooltip that reads ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285937 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Best practices in setting up a development & production environments As a baseline, here's what we did in my last company: For tests, we used an in-memory database, whose schema was initialized by our object-relational mapper, with initial data loaded either from an SQL-Script, or code using the O/R-Mapper. Before deploying, we would generate SQL-Scripts for mig... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285916 |
I guessed that this was the reason you mentioned onbeforeunload :-) Just to be perfectly clear, the problem I see is that network I/O in onbeforeunload can not be relied on to work, because the application will likely unload before the server response arrives, making it impossible to react to a failu... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285918 |
In the Schwartzian transform, I'd prefer using an object to hold the tuple rather than arrays for better readability (i.e. one can then write `sort((a,b) => a.sortKey - b.sortKey)` rather than using "magic index 1". Also, your conclusion makes it sound as if execution speed were the only concern. It ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285908 |
That last question might be specific enough to be answered in a reasonable amount of text (this answer is gonna be: it depends, and would have to enumerate the various things that usually factor into this decision). The question you originally posted is bit too broad IMHO. You may therefore want to e... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285916 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: Detecting if a user has stopped interacting with a web view for a certain time The weakness of responding to idle state is that the app might be closed before the idle state is reached, and that a closing app might no longer be able to communicate with the outside world. Saving to local storage rather than remote systems may therefore be more robust and cheaper, allowing more f... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285908 |
Well, the difference is that the databases will be separate databases. Can you clarify what you mean with "set up"? Installing the database software (off topic here), migrating schemas, configuring a different database connection in test and production, or something else? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285902 |
Do you know the environment well enough to say that with certainty? For instance, people are never interrupted by a ringing phone and have to handle that before continuing? Or the arrival of an urgent email? Or some coworker asking for help through chat? Obviously, I don't know the environment you ar... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285902 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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A: How to prevent token from being refreshed It's worth noting that logging out a user goes way beyond not fetching a token, because your UI needs to inform the user he is about to be (or has been) logged out. And if your UI closes or locks itself, it probably doesn't matter if it has a current token. So I'd handle this fully in the UI; for ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285875 |
+1 to Lundin's comments. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285883 |
What problem are you trying to solve with this? Why is it a problem if a token is updated while the user is away from his keyboard? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285844 |
Why do you need to detect whether a user is idle? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285523 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Can I set a memory limit for the .NET Core garbage collector to collect objects more aggressively? Generally speaking, the frequency of garbage collection is a space / time tradeoff: collection effort live object size GC overhead ----------------- = ---------------- memory freed dead object size In defaulting to collect garbage only whe... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285489 |
I see. Knowing that you are concerned about peak memory use, rather than, say, the length of garbage collector pauses helps writing targeted answers. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285491 |
On .NET Core, the AppDomain implementation is limited by design and does not provide isolation, unloading, or security boundaries (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285489 |
Does this memory use cause an actual problem for you? Most modern servers comes with hundreds of GB of memory, so you should have memory to spare? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285504 |
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| Edit | Post #285504 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Using nested paths vs. flat ones for API resources 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 makes no reference to their internal structure. In fact, if we take a strict reading of the REST architectur... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285328 |
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| Edit | Post #285328 |
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| Edit | Post #285328 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Regarding the heap sort algorithm. As you know, a max heap is a binary tree such that each parent is greater than its children. The most compact and efficient way to represent such a tree is an array, where each index corresponds to a node in the tree, numbered from the root, level by level, from left to right, as shown in the foll... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284988 |
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| Edit | Post #284988 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Questions easily answered by studying a beginner-level book How to ask says: > Do some research > > Before asking a new question, first take a look around. Has your question been asked before here on Software Development Codidact? You can do a search for keywords related to your question, or take to your favorite search engine to see if your answer is a... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284616 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Specify framework / library version in the answer We already have such a text field. In fact, we have several: The big one we type our answer into, and the small one we type our comments into. And this approach even allows to specifically express which part of an answer is version dependent, or to express disagreement about the designation. The o... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284552 |
Then I agree with you :-)
The example I was making was about somebody not consulting Wikipedia, which I'd expect every reasonable person to know. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284552 |
Obvious to whom? It may be obvious to us, and to "every reasonable person", but not to them. (more) |
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