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For example, which term completes the sentence "p has 5 ____" in order to describe a situation like int *****p?
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Is it an anti-pattern or code smell to put "general use" functions (examples below) into a catch-all file named "helpers" or "utils"? It's a pattern I've seen quite a lot ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_model says A programming language consists of a grammar/syntax plus an execution model. The execution model specifies the behavior of elements of the language. ...
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In the Xamarin.Essentials library there is a Location class that comes with a DateTimeOffset TimeStamp. I know I'm being pedantic and I should just move on - I know it's to indicate a location of the ...
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In most contexts, the concept of "interpolation" seems to be related to estimating unknown states from known ones, like video frames or data points. From the Wikipedia entry on interpolation:...
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Suppose I'm writing C or C++ code which deals with... ok, let's make it citizens in a state. In this state, citizens have numeric id's (not strings - numbers); and for reasons of performance, or ...
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There is a feature that is now deprecated and going to be removed. Adding a logging statement, observed by some alerting mechanism, can help finding out whether the feature is still being actively ...
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I am having trouble finding a lexicon which provides terminology for the explicit patterns that are employed when parsing syntax. I am trying to write about the niggling differences between the 10+ ...
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I am working in a system which only supports 32bit integers, in order to have a 64bit (unsigned) integer I decided to simply use two 32bit integers with one being the upper 32 bits (hi), and the other ...
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I am trying to switch to semantic commit messages for project. While the idea is good, sometimes I find it is difficult to properly categorize changes like a configuration value change. If I commit a ...
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There are a number of CSS frameworks that have a one-to-one correspondence between many of the classes and a single style. For example, in basscss ".inline-block" is defined as "display: inline-block;...
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I am reading more about the differences between syntax and semantics, but I am still wondering about this one. Let's assume that we have a language that only allows integers to be in the range of 0-...
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I have recently come across the terms migration pattern and refactoring on the topic of migrating monoliths to microservices. Is there any real difference between the two terms, or can they be used ...
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Sometime ago in a code-review (C++) I suggested to change the input argument from Path type to Optional<Path>, where the function has specific logic for unset path. It looks for me intuitively ...
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Let's say I have an application that works around departments and employees. Each department has a set of rules that defines which employee is assigned to each department. For instance the system will ...
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