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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 user253751‭

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Q&A Why not call nullptr NULL?

In C++11 the nullptr keyword was added as a more type safe null pointer constant, since the previous common definition of NULL as 0 has some problems. Why did the standards committee choose not to...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by user253751‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by alx‭

Question c++ null null-pointer language-design c++11
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Q&A Is it a bad idea to block proxies/vpns for interacting with my app?

If you block proxies and VPNs it will stop real users. reCAPTCHA also stops real users, often blocks proxies and VPNs, and isn't very good at stopping bots. You can try a custom CAPTCHA. It can b...

posted 1y ago by user253751‭  ·  edited 1y ago by user253751‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

Broaden the scope (slightly) I noticed https://software.codidact.com/posts/292660 was closed due to being off-topic. That's fine on a site the size of Stack Overflow, where there are too many ques...

posted 2y ago by user253751‭  ·  edited 2y ago by user253751‭

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Q&A How do I type something different at each cursor when using multi-cursor editing in VS Code?

You click on the first place and type blue. Then you click on the second place and type green. Then you click on the third place and type lightblue. Multi-cursors are useful when you are typing th...

posted 1mo ago by user253751‭

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Q&A How can I unmount a filesystem hidden behind another? [closed]

Let's say I mount a filesystem and then mount another filesystem over it the same location: (sshfs for example) sshfs foo@server1:/path /mnt/path sshfs foo@server2:/path /mnt/path The contents...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by user253751‭  ·  closed 1y ago by Alexei‭

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