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The standard library sorting functions I'm familiar with in C and Java accept a user-defined comparator, which takes two elements a and b and returns a <=> b, ...
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Since design ideas, and even the concept of Physical Design (exactly where you put your files), are such a broad topic, may I give a definite example and ask for feedback on the example? Suppose you ...
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I’ve read the Wikipedia article and know it’s basic function but I don’t understand what it physically is. Like, is an api a text file that the main program reads from and you are just putting your ...
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So I have a database pre-loaded with data related to food recipes and the assignment says: 'Provide an API call that allows us to specify an ingredient or set of ingredients and return full recipes ...
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According to me Statement S1 and S2 is True while S3 is False. The Solution says 'S3' is correct ? Am I Wrong ? Kindly help with explanation . I know Connect() in TCP is used by the client side for ...
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I've read many blogs about this but I still get somehow confused, specially why a webhook is a thing vs an API and not just a subset of API. The way I interpret from most places (and interpret is ...
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My thesis will produce a software framework that can be used by programmers to solve problems in a paticular domain. One of the case studies I want to do to verify the contribution I'm making is to ...
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In theory operating system is a special program run by itself without help so that also mean normal program can still run by itself mean that the need for api is not must have so finally can we have ...
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Assume that you are writing sorting algorithms, and that you want the ability to select between ascending and descending order. The only change required to do this for comparison sorts is to use the ...
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Imagine that we have a base class number that has implemented a integer and floats, but not complex numbers and that we would like to extend it to also support ...
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In his talk The Future of Programming, in the third section of the talk about "programming using goals", Bret Victor says this: https://vimeo.com/71278954 [15:20] What won't work, what would be ...
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I had been first introduced to the idea of declarative syntax when using Angular JS. From what I understand, the idea is that you say, "do this" instead of "in order to do this, do this, this and this"...
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Why operator overloading was included in Python and not in Java? How does one decide to include or exclude operator overloading in a programming language? It is said here that operator overloading is ...
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I'm asking here for both the scientific, programmatic, and structural format of a device driver. What does that mean? Basically, I'm not asking how to write a driver in general ... I'm asking how to ...
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I'm building a GUI Desktop application that will communicate with an API(http) in a webserver. In the client side I have a GUI Desktop application and a GSM Modem(hardware). The GUI Desktop ...
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