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| Edit | Post #281528 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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How are we supposed to give feedback for poor questions if such comments are deleted? The question https://software.codidact.com/posts/281517 is currently voted at -3. I wrote several comments to explain why, so the author can hopefully ask better questions in the future. This morning, I found all but the first of these comments deleted without warning. Alexei gave the followin... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281517 |
Would you please at least check Wikipedia before asking a question here? Because if you do read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier, you'll come across such an example in a matter of minutes. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281484 |
Where have you read that? I ask because the same word can mean different things in different contexts, so knowing the context is necessary to know what "typeless" means. (Yes, some words are so ubiquitous nearly everyone agrees on their meaning. These words usually have their own wikipedia entry. "ty... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281477 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Is it worth using the Java Platform Module System in application code? Is it worth using the Java Platform Module System introduced in Java 9 to structure application code? Given that the Java Platform Module System introduced in Java 9 doesn't manage dependency versions, I understand I still need a dependency management tool such as Maven - but if I am already using... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281422 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Why often times data compression causes data loss? > 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 (from the "complicated" to the "simple"). Nonsense. Let's turn to Wikipedia for a better definit... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281315 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How to properly deal with impersonation in a Web application? (security vs. usefulness for tech support) My first instinct would be to track both identities, using one for access control, and the other for audit purposes. For instance, rather than storing: User createdBy; you'd store User createdBy; // for auditing User createdOnBehalfOf; // for access control All access con... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281255 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Why do I, a logged in user, have to solve a captcha to post? You should know I am not a bot by now ;-) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281253 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How to enable or disable a bunch of reactive form controls? Actually, TypeScript is perfectly able to type check the code you posted. Here's what the compiler thinks: const functionName = disable ? "disable" : "enable"; // inferred type: "disable" | "enable"; this.form.get("foo")[functionName]; // inferred type: // FormControl["... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281200 |
What do you mean with "uncheckable"? In your code, TypeScript checks that the functions exist and have the correct signature. What else do you want it to check? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281168 |
I always normalize timezones in the application tier because I don't like to depend on DBMS-specific logic for finicky stuff like this (in addition, I know Java's data time libraries much better than SQL's). (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281156 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Is there a problem in making Captcha an HTML builtin with an attribute setting which type of Captcha 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. In particular, many popular Captcha approaches have been made obsolete by advances in AI: The "disto... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #281145 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Dye all label asterisks Red with vanilla JavaScript 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 can use a pseudo element for that, but since an element can't have two after pseudo elements, you c... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #281058 |
What makes you think that the "server seems to not receive the data"? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281001 |
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| Edit | Post #281001 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: What should healthcheck of an Web API application actually check? > I am interested in a guideline to understand how dependencies are considered when building the healthcheck functionality for an API. Like any functionality, the implementation of this feature should be guided by specific requirements. Who will be using that feature? What for? For instance, i... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #280975 |
We can't know *how* explorer uses these hashing functions to find "similar pictures", nor do we know what "similar" means in this context. Since we don't work at microsoft, we don't know what they are doing any better than you do. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #280970 |
Answers describing solutions in other languages or frameworks are welcome - they can likely be adapted :-) I am using JPA (the Java equivalent of EF), and I am using its optimistic locking feature, which seems similar to EF concurrency checks. However, JPA optimistic locking fails to prevent the bug ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #280970 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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How to reason about transaction isolation during development Consider the following code: public class OnlineShoppingService { @Transactional public void cancelOrder(String id) { if (shipmentRepository.findShipmentForOrder(id) != null) { throw new ConflictException("Shipped orders can not be cancelled!"); ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #280795 |
In addition, the usual caveat for all terminology questions applies: Different people may associate a different meaning with this word. There is no universally accepted definition: To some, REST means the architectural style in Fieldings dissertation. To others, it simply means they sometimes use HTT... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #280787 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: What is the latest, efficient way to create a login page in JAVA? A login page is but the tip of the iceberg. For a login page to function, you need a way to store users and their passwords, verify passwords in a safe way, prevent the login form from being bypassed by requiring a login before accessing a protected resource, and thus designate resources as protected... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #280112 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Is it necessary for a build server to remove node_modules before an AOT build? I suspect this is an outdated practice: Prior to npm 3, npm did not keep track of resolved dependencies, and npm install would try to reconcile the existing with the declared dependencies. Since `nodemodules` is not commonly under version control, this meant that the build would depend on hidden s... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279072 |
You did ask whether you are missing something. Yes, you are: If you use git well, you will be writing meaningful intermediary commits, so amending or squashing will be a rare event, so there is no need to "fix" commit dates. I am somewhat puzzled that you would ask whether you are missing something, ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279072 |
Sorry to hear your team writes such abysmal commit messages. Concluding from this that commit messages can not be useful would would be a mistake though. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279072 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: How can I make --reset-author the default? Rather that doing `git commit --amend --date=` every time you commit, you can coalesce commits at merge time using `git merge --squash`. That said, for non-trivial topic branches, it is usually valuable to retain the commits in the topic branch to figure out why a particular change was made. For i... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278897 |
Feel free to give constructive feedback when downvoting ... (more) |
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