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Posts by meriton
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 ...
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 bra...
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 ...
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,...
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 lac...
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...
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 sta...
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. ...
You should know I am not a bot by now ;-)
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 framewor...
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 diff...
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 make...
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...
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 vers...
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 questio...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
questions about the system, network, or server administration Which system? I think it is clearer without "the": questions about system, network, or server administration
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?...
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...
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 create...
Generally speaking, the frequency of garbage collection is a space / time tradeoff: collection effort live object size GC overhead ~ ----------------- = ---------------- ...
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 ...
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.TEXT_NODE) { e.nodeValue =...
