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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 Lundin‭

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Meta Should self-answered Q&A use separate answers for different techniques/approaches (even if there's a caveat that applies overall)?

the answer is incredibly long It really isn't - though it might look that way because of the extensive use of large font headlines. I think it is a good answer - there's no problem in discussi...

posted 1y ago by Lundin‭

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

Shell scripts, BASH, batch files, PowerShell etc etc are all on-topic here and so questions about command line commands ought to be as well. We may however require the question to include enough r...

posted 5mo ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here?

On-topic questions about best practices as long as enough detail is provided to answer using external references or expertise consensus I propose that this should be re-phrased: On-topic non-...

posted 4y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Are reference requests welcome here?

If we ignore the part of recommendation questions leading to opinion-based answers, the main concern against these kind of questions is that they don't add anything of value to this site. But also ...

posted 4y ago by Lundin‭

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

On the contrary, I think that it is appropriate and recommended practice. That way you (the poster of the question) can pick your own answer as the "official" one, since these post often (ought to...

posted 1y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta Handling common wrong approaches and misguided motivations for basic technique questions

I think this is important to consider because it doesn't only concern questions about bad practices or XY questions, but also if we should allow questions with artificial requirements or questions ...

posted 1y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta I created a tag, now it need edit.

Streams is an universal concept not specific to any particular language. It originates from ancient Unix, most famously the stdout and stdin streams. And so they exist in pretty much any "C family"...

posted 2mo ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Lundin‭

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Q&A Should I check if pointer parameters are null pointers?

The kind of comments telling you to add checks against null are typically coming from programmers mostly used to deal with higher level programming languages. They think that generally, more explic...

posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Lundin‭

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