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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

Posts by trichoplax‭

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Meta On self-answered questions, is it inappropriate to mark my own answer "Works for me" immediately?

Bear in mind that unlike on some other question and answer sites, the "Works for me" reaction is not restricted to the author of the question. Anyone can add that reaction, whether they posted the ...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Can I repost here the answers to questions I get answered elsewhere?

Your own questions If the original question was your own, then you own it and there is no restriction on also posting it to Codidact. Other people's answers For a question or answer posted by so...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Email alerts for notifications

This feature has not yet been implemented. However, there is a feature request on Codidact Meta that requests it for all communities. You (and anyone else who would like to see this) can add your ...

posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Why can parentheses cause exceptions in Python when using for loops?

A single element tuple has a trailing comma Note that the example in the question does not form a tuple, as there is a special syntax for single element tuples. A single element tuple has a traili...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Are there other reasons why useEffect might not be defined apart from not importing it?

Including the full file in the question The question states that useState has been imported, but the codeblock does not include import { useState } from 'react';. Is this the full file or just an ...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Queries to count points lying on arbitrary line

Some answer-specific terminology to make describing things simpler: I will refer to the N points as candidate points. I will refer to the integer points inside the bounding box of the N points ...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Code Reviews Vanilla JS Functions Review

Without seeing the HTML and CSS for the page I'm going to be making assumptions about the effects that the JavaScript has. Feel free to include the other files if the lack of context leads me to in...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A How do I return ISO day of week in Redshift?

Quick answer (DATE_PART(dayofweek, my_datetime) + 6) % 7 Slow answer For avoidance of doubt, here is what I believe you currently have (assuming an input called my_datetime): DATE_PART(dayofw...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Reaching to a directory in git-bash

You can narrow down the problem by using cd to navigate to the different nested directories in the path one at a time, starting from the one on the left. The first one that gives you an error tells...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Issue with the Monospace font

What's wrong As Moshi's comment points out, single backticks only work for inline code (code that appears within a paragraph of other text, and contains no line breaks). The following raw text: ...

posted 8mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Should beginner-oriented Q&A here include basic use of a terminal (command line) for developers?

Yes, tools used by developers are on topic here From the top of the front page (emphasis mine): General Q&A about programming, scripting, software design & architecture, process, tools,...

posted 5mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Best practices for posting tabular data

For most purposes, the easiest approach is probably Markdown tables, as described in Wicket's answer. If you have requirements that Markdown tables do not support, such as merged cells, you can re...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Should asking about book recommendations directly connected to software development be on-topic?

Here is a slightly different suggestion, that may avoid the problems with open ended book recommendations. Book lists? No I'm not entirely against opinion based questions, but I am against opinio...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta codidact profile editing requires 30 characters but has no error message

This has now been indirectly fixed for all Codidact communities by removing the minimum character requirement altogether. See Is there a reason for preventing user profile content being less than 3...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Tags are highlighting while my favourite tags is empty

The problem mentioned in the question The original problem mentioned in the question is now fixed. If several users share a computer (or one person has several user accounts), the user who is curr...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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