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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 Andreas‭

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Meta Don't close questions for lack of detail/confusion

No. Closing is an integral part of maintaining this knowledge repository. If a question isn't up to our standards, it doesn't belong here, and closing is the first step in ensuring that. If a quest...

posted 2y ago by Andreas‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Andreas‭

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Q&A Why does a lack of object encapsulation constitute a security breach?

In the current version of OpenJDK's JEP 401: Value Classes and Objects (Preview), it is said that value classes can leak data stored in their fields, and that this is potentially a security concern...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by roberto almdnde‭

Question java security encapsulation
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Q&A Prevent anonymously subclassing

There is no keyword or compile-time construct to prevent this, but it can be accomplished through the use of a runtime exception: class Parent { public Parent() { if (getClass(...

posted 2y ago by Andreas‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Andreas‭

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Meta How to handle correct answers that also include spam?

It's a mistake to draw a general question based on this specific incident. The spam in question has been posted to Codidact dozens of times, often in AI-generated texts. There is no reason to assu...

posted 1y ago by Andreas‭

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Meta What is the difference between back-end and backend tags?

Quite obviously, these are the same. The name of the two is literally the same except for a hyphen. They only have one question each. Looking at the questions, they are indeed used for the same pur...

posted 2y ago by Andreas‭

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Meta How should I organize material about text encoding in Python into questions?

The list you provided seems huge for a single Q/A. I think you're better off breaking them up, and linking to each other in the answers. The theory behind text encoding can be decoupled from Python...

posted 3y ago by Andreas‭

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Q&A Prevent anonymously subclassing

Is it possible to somehow prohibit anonymously subclassing of a specific class? For instance, with a plain public parent class: public class Parent { } Extending this class should not be pos...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Antares‭

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Q&A How does the GLFW time acquirement function differ from Java’s built-in time getters?

glfwGetTime() and System.nanoTime() both claim to provide precision-based time interval management based on the host platform’s highest resolution and accuracy clock. Naturally, I will only use on...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Andreas‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

Question java lwjgl glfw