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| Comment | Post #278899 |
How is this related to software development? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278897 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Is omitting braces for single statements bad practice? Advantages of Mandatory Braces When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Since every popular coding standard for java mandates the use of braces, and every popular code style checking tool enforces their use, omitting these braces is highly unusual, making your code slightly harder to maintain for those... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278874 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: The size of the code format window is much too small. Seconded. This looks accidental, since the height is set to 20em, but the line-height is set to 1.5em, resulting in 20/1.5 = 13 lines being displayed. I wonder what that line-height is for? I know of no code editor that uses an increased line height? I'd therefore consider both increasing t... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278782 |
I suspected that :-) I was trying to point that ngrx need not be an all-or-nothing affair. If part of your state is SHARI, and thus benefits from the store, other data might not be. And since the token is neither shared, hydrated, necessarily available when reentering routes, retrieved with a side ef... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278830 |
I am not surprised the C book list went of the rails if voting was disabled for years, everybody could edit the list at whim, and the form of the community wiki answer discouraged offering evidence for or against a particular book. Since we don't have to repeat these mistakes, we might see better res... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278788 |
What do you find vague about it? That we need to infer intent? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278792 |
Ah, so it's about tools only? Because [software documentation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_documentation) encompasses all kinds of documents about software, up to and including user manuals. Your phrasing could therefore be understood to include all questions about technical writing. So, I... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278790 |
Well, I would never have gathered that from the phrasing you proposed, so perhaps you can find a better way to express what you mean? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278792 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here? > questions dealing with how to write software documentation This seems overly broad. I mean this would include Mark Bakers entire book, but technical writing has an established codidact community, hasn't it? Suggest to remove this from the list. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278790 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here? > questions about which tools, frameworks, or technologies to use, unless they are directly related to development (e.g. code, schema changes documentation tools) Don't understand. Frameworks or technologies are always related to development, aren't they? Also, the double negative (in don't ..... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278789 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here? > questions about the system, network, or server administration Which system? I think it is clearer without "the": > questions about system, network, or server administration (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278788 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here? > questions asking for implementing a certain feature (or homework). You should include your (partially working) trials in the post asking to explain what a certain code does. A great many questions ask for help implementing a feature. That's not the problem. The problem is help-vampires, so I'd ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278787 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here? > 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 state which information is required? And why must references be "external"? What about: > ques... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278786 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here? > 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? And I have no clue what "what item goes where when using a certain technology stack" is supposed t... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278785 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here? Overall feedback: > To better understand what is on-topic and what is offtopic, please read the following sections. followed by a total of 16 bullet points ... folks, no first time visitor will carefully read through 16 bullet points to get a sense of whether they are allowed to ask their quest... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278649 |
Disagree due to verbosity and hard to understand wording. Site rules should be expressed clearly and concisely. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278783 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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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) |
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| Edit | Post #278782 |
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| Edit | Post #278782 | Initial revision | — | 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) |
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| Comment | Post #277393 |
It doesn't go into that because that isn't affected by declared VARCHAR sizes - have I missed something? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278709 |
Erm, are you *sure* that the declared length of a VARCHAR determines row size in the table file for MyISAM static tables? Because the documentation you link to says that "It [the static format] is used when the table contains no variable-length columns (VARCHAR, VARBINARY, BLOB, or TEXT)", which impl... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278291 |
But, since I alluded that I still have a different perspective on the decision taken, I should probably briefly show where I disagree with your reasoning: 1) I don't think we would have seen thousands of answers in a community as small as ours currently is. 2) In a list style question, voting could i... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278291 |
That is, my beef is not so much with the decision taken (which, apparently, nearly everyone but me agrees with), but with how it was communicated. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278291 |
I asked this meta question because I found it frustrating to find my question downvoted and closed, and the only explanation initially given a generic close message so vague that it could have meant pretty much anything. I didn't mean to imply that your comment was poorly written, I pointed out its f... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278277 |
"if there is no way to distinguish which answer is correct, then the question is unanswerable". Why can there be only one correct answer? And don't you find it weird to call a question with an upvoted answer "unanswerable"? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278238 | Initial revision | — | 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) |
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| Edit | Post #278237 | Initial revision | — | 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) |
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| Comment | Post #278219 |
Might one of the down or close voters be so kind as to give more specific feedback why they disliked this question? The close reason given is a bit ... generic ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278220 | Initial revision | — | 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) |
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| Edit | Post #278219 | Initial revision | — | 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) |
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| Comment | Post #278211 |
The "questions that don't seek answers problem" could be alleviated by posting question and answer at the same time, or by indicating in the question that a self-answer is coming up. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278197 |
Since words often mean different things in different contexts, please be sure to clearly convey the context you are asking about: What does SD stand for? Service Design? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278207 | Initial revision | — | 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) |
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