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Are reference requests welcome here? On that other site that shall not be named, reference request questions are outlawed as "asking for an off-site resource". What do you guys think about such questions? Should they be welcome here? Any specific things to keep in mind when asking such questions? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Setting the authentication token in an Angular application for generated API clients Do you need to write this yourself? That is, are you sure there is no library that could do this for you? After all, the angular services generated by the `typescript-angular `language binding of the `openapi-generator` use angular's `HttpClient`, whose interceptors offer a neat way to decorate... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Give actionable feedback when closing questions I think the best solution is to have specific canned close reasons, with vetted messages clearly communicating what was bad, why that is bad, and specific tips for improving it. Here are some attempts how this could look: > This post contains multiple unrelated questions. > > [explanation wh... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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Give actionable feedback when closing questions Having had the dubious honor of experiencing the closing process from the perspective of a question author, it seems to me that closing does not adequately communicate why the question was closed, and which aspects need improving in order to make the question work here. Specifically, for feedback ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What is the worst code you ever saw? The worst code I ever saw was when I was called in to finish the work of a consultant who had left the company for greener pastures. The feature had been in development for 4 months, and was, according to the consultant who left, about 1 week away from being finished. However, I had some trouble ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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What is the worst code you ever saw? In the interest of learning from the mistakes of other people: What is the worst code you ever saw? What made it so bad? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Is there a way to estimate the execution time of a statement in MySQL? The best way to estimate this is to measure it, for instance by importing a backup of the production database into a new instance and run your scripts there. Short of that, you could consult the execution plan of your query to get a rough idea about the amount of work the database will be doing, a... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Do we want a wiki (or similar) alongside Q&A? I am not categorically opposed, but I currently don't see a use case for articles. For one, wikis already exist. What would be the benefit of hosting our own rather than participating on Wikipedia? After all, Wikipedia has a very mature software and policies for this very thing. It also has a much... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Long code lines are not wrapped As Lundin points out, there are quite a few whitespace-sensitive programming languages out there, where automatic wrapping would change the apparent meaning of the code, such as Phython or JavaScript. In particular, wrapped lines must be properly indented in many contexts, which goes way beyond the c... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Asking software architecture related questions on Software Development community 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 framework? and received the following replies: > Absolutely, i really love it! > No, I hate it!... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: What are the pros and cons of a composite primary key versus a unique constraint? 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 primary key. In particular, if you do not specify a column when creating a foreign key, the pri... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: Would a MySQL database run more efficiently with smaller varchar lengths? The manual writes: > In contrast to CHAR, VARCHAR values are stored as a 1-byte or 2-byte length prefix plus data. The length prefix indicates the number of bytes in the value. A column uses one length byte if values require no more than 255 bytes, two length bytes if values may require more than ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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A: How should we share some content between two otherwise-independent git repositories? 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 software it describes. Looking at code examples in version X while writing docs for version Y is gener... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
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