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Best language for beginners
I'm a beginner, what is the best app for beginners to develop games and apps in 2024?
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Are there any standards/norms for writing R code for ecological research? If not, is this needed?
The past few weeks I have been writing R scripts for some of the research that I have been doing. In the process I have been looking at code from published studies that have been put into GitHub ...
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Is Flask the right tool in your case?
Handling CONNECT in standard Flask/WSGI (like on Cloud Run, since Flask is a WSGI app) is tricky because it needs raw TCP tunneling. Hacks for the dev server (like werkzeug.socket) will not work ...
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Is This Programming Paradigm New?
In the last 5 years I have explored what I think is a new programming paradigm that I call "Declarative Domain Programming". It uses type declarations to model logic, behaviour and ...
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I grew a symbolic visual interference model
I've been messing with cursor, before that I was just brute forcing everything with pictures and prompts and bug testing and it was slow going. But I learned as I went. And I started a new project a ...
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Is the "T-shaped developer" approach still relevant in 2025, or should we specialize earlier?
As we progress through 2025, I'm noticing a growing division between two career development philosophies: The traditional T-shaped developer approach, where you build a broad foundation of skills ...
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C++ namespace or static class
I am developing a library of functions in C++. These functions will be used extensively and repeatedly by me as well as others in the future. Let us say my functions are: double SphBesselJn(const ...
Parameter Sniffing Workarounds in SQL Server 2012
I've encountered performance issues with stored procedures in SQL Server 2012, which I suspect are due to parameter sniffing. What are effective strategies to mitigate this problem ?
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Does Xcode force to download latest iOS simulator after update?
I have Xcode on my mac. I am iOS Dev. I do not know what version of Xcode was before I did next steps, but I could say that I had iOS Simulator 18.3.1. So I update my Xcode to Version 16.3 (16E140). ...
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How do you know that the site is 'open' and are able to find the link that gives the table?
I'm wondering how do you know from a URL that you can find a table with some information that would be useful in a script. For example, at this link https://donneesclimatiques.ca/explorer/variable/?...
Any valid reason to have a success field in REST API?
So this is a pattern I've seen quite a few times now, especially in Java web projects; many of them seem to enforce a "standard" DTO/payload structure of "success", "message&...
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A function is a stateless, why do we need useCallback?
A function is a stateless, it never changed. So why we need use useCallback to cache a function? It more like a patch for the design of React?
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Lawyer building a LegalTech chatbot — advice needed on architecture
Hi everyone, I'm a practicing lawyer venturing into the world of programming. My goal is to build a simple LegalTech chatbot that can help people answer basic legal questions (e.g., related to tenancy,...
Why hasn't Vue completely deprecated the Options API in favor of the Composition API?
Hi everyone, I've been wondering about Vue's continued support for the Options API, especially since the Composition API offers so many advantages in terms of flexibility, code organization, and ...
Alternatives to .hidden()
Great solution! Playing around with it, I noticed that using .opacity(0) instead of .hidden() seems to work as well, and has the benefit of working with images too. For example, replace Text("...
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