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Posts by meriton
We already have such a text field. In fact, we have several: The big one we type our answer into, and the small one we type our comments into. And this approach even allows to specifically express ...
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, becaus...
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 car...
eclipse has a built-in compiler. When developping in eclipse (or any other Java IDE), you can run from eclipse, you can package as a JAR file from eclipse, and even run a full fledged maven / gradl...
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?...
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, accor...
You mean, aside from giving the team that made B a stern talking to? ;-) You could introduce another layer of indirection, and mock that. For instance like this: interface MockFriendlyB { pu...
How to ask says: Do some research Before asking a new question, first take a look around. Has your question been asked before here on Software Development Codidact? You can do a search for keyw...
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 ...
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,...
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 valuab...
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 indicat...
In the interest of learning from the mistakes of other people: What is the worst code you ever saw? What made it so bad?
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