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A: Why did my question get a downvote? I believe this should be answered by the downvoters on a case by case basis. Only they know the particular reason they downvoted that particular question. I am not a fan of canned feedback, because it often is overly generic and subject to interpretation. Often, more concrete feedback is both cle... (more) |
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A: Are general questions (hopefully resulting in comprehensive, 'canonical' answers) in scope I think that questions about programming paradigms fall under the umbrella of "questions about software design or software architecture" and are thus on topic. There have also been several questions about OOP that remain open, including a very conceptual one. Granted, that last question met with a... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284507 |
To clarify: Bug 3 is about returning an `ApplicationUserDTO` rather than an `Observable<ApplicationUserDTO>`. Those are different types, offering different properties and methods. TypeScript doesn't realize this because you are declaring `public currentUser?: any;`
Angular will not rewrite the cod... (more) |
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A: Retrieve user details from service in Angular There are quite a few bugs there :-) Let's start with with the big one: In Angular (and most client side web frameworks) requests to the server happen asynchronously. That is, when a method does an http call, the method doesn't wait for the response, but continues immediately. So when you do... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284255 |
Erm, what? My answer says that static methods can not be overridden in a subclass. Which is their main disadvantage. I don't get how you came conclude that my "example didn't add anything about method" when that example declares 3 methods, and proceeds to call one of them in a way that wouldn't be po... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284255 |
Did I say something wrong? Did I not say something you think I should? I tried to say the same as Alexei, but in a way more understandable to beginners, but he got +3, I got -2. Am I to conclude I should never use simple language here? (more) |
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A: What are the disadvantages of using static methods in Java? If it were always better to use `static`, the language would have been designed to always assume `static`, or at least default to `static`. That the language defaults to making methods not static indicates that the designers of the programming language envisioned static methods to be rare. Java is... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283003 |
Are you sure that spaces are not counted? My tests indicate otherwise ... in particular, `"Hello, World!".length` returns 13, counting the 10 letters, 2 punctuation symbols, and 1 space ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #282853 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: How much research effort is expected from the asker by the community? > Should someone be warned when their question lacks for effort? Actually, we don't know about their effort. Nor do we actually need effort, itself. What we need are particular results of effort, and for these to be clearly communicated through the question. Thus, we should never write somethi... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #282852 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: How much research effort is expected from the asker by the community? > How much research effort is expected from the asker by the community? The kinds of research I expect varies with the question type. Before asking us ... about concepts or the meaning of words, askers should spend some time (say, an hour) with Wikipedia and Google. to write code, askers sho... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #282779 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: What's the correct way to merge a branch and its dependent branch back to master? > 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 branch is a pointer to the state of a repository at a particular point in time (as represented by the commi... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #282714 |
Do you mean "lack"? Because "leaking effort" might be understood to mean an overabundance of effort ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #282574 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: What is a good modern language to use for a Business Rules project? 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, but perhaps highlight some things to consider, and some solutions to look at. Requirements The ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #282541 |
Also: How will the business rules be tested? (Since the rules have financial impact, you'll likely need some form of Q/A?) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #282541 |
Programmable by whom? Which skills do they have? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #282381 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Mixing "operational" database models with archiving ones in the database context Generally speaking, switching data access technologies to avoid a naming conflict seems overkill. Doing that will increase the set of technologies contributors must be familiar with, and impede code reuse. So, how to solve the similar names part? I'd probably choose names that are obviously differ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #282332 |
Can you clarify the kind of "bloat" you are concerned about? Memory use? Name collision? Redundancy in the source code due to several classes with the same members? Something else? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281896 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Do we need more specific up/down vote reasons for Software Development community? I agree that these buttons should have tooltips explaining what the buttons are for. That would be far more useful than showing the result of a simple calculation on the displayed votes, and seems like a simple change to make. Making this site configurable would be ideal, but even a "this question... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281822 |
I'm afraid I don't understand your question. First, why is a decibel meter dropping when you stop speaking cause for worry? Isn't that expected? Second, can you clarify what you mean by "manage" the decibel meter? (more) |
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A: What are the risks of using iFrame as a temporary migration step for an internal web application? I think a lot of the bad press about iframes stems from W3C deprecating them in HTML 4 strict mode, which caused the herd of web developers to internalize that iframes are bad and should be avoided. However, this deprecation was due to accessibility concerns that have long since been resolved, an... (more) |
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A: How to set text-align for whole column of HTML table? 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 lack of accuracy often causes more wasted work than reading a more reputable source to begin with. My go-... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281565 |
@Alexei: Feedback can help people write better content in the future. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281573 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Etiquette for posting comments > Should be avoided > > secondary discussions or debates on controversial points (please ask a question on meta). Just when is a discussion secondary? I think r used the term "digressive", which I find to convey the intent better. I get that we don't want to derail comment threads with lengt... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281571 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Etiquette for posting comments Proposal: > Can Include > Helpful feedback I'd refrain from restricting the topic of feedback, because there are many possible topics: Clarifying the question Explaining why OP would be better served by asking a different question Explaining how OP could have found a solution himself... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281560 |
See also https://meta.codidact.com/posts/281546. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281530 |
So if I find a question unsalvagable, I should "downvote and move on" or flag it. So, I should never give negative feedback myself, and ask you to pass it along instead? Ok. Could you please pass along that googling and reading wikipedia before asking a question is not optional, even if English is no... (more) |
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