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What is the targeted age level for children readers of Lauren Ipsum? [closed]
A comment on Jeff Atwood's post The Eternal Lorem Ipsum referenced a children's book entitled Lauren Ipsum. The brief description of the book has me interested:
A story about computer science and ...
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Programming without target platform? [closed]
I have a idea for a program and have began laying out the software design concept in a traditional SDLC model of charts and instructions for what I want all parts to achieve.
A quick explanation of ...
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How to handle interview questions on programming style
As a C++-programmer in interviews I repeatedly found myself in situations were the interviewer wanted to probe my knowledge of good programming style. These typically were centered around basic ...
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How do I communicate concepts and design for a web application?
Iam not sure if this topic is ok to ask, but we are talking about this since years in our Developer-"Shop". How to write concepts for Web- Applications?
We are using Zend Framework (MVC), OOP Based, ...
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What technique are there to check if an email has been opened [closed]
I am aware that a technique often used to track if a HTML email is opened is to add a small tracking image that logs a the database when it is requested.
However if the users opts not to view images ...
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NoSql databases - Decent tutorial/book that covers the concepts
Am looking for a good resource on learning the concepts behind NoSql databases.
Most things I find are related to a specific technology (MongoDb, CouchDB etc) but I'm after all the concepts behind ...
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Inexpensive generation of hierarchical unique IDs
My application is building a hierarchical structure like this:
root = {
'id': 'root',
'children': [ {
'name': 'root_foo',
'children': []
}, {
'id': 'root_foo2',
'children': [ {
...
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How do we call a concept when my acceptor loop is ran by some real application while all services are plugins for that application?
So say we have an app (server) that somehow attaches to itself plugins (services) in form of .dll or .so libraries. Is there any nice short name for such server behaviour model?
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Entity System - interaction between systems
I am studying the Entity System architecture philosophy. As I have read about it, a typical entity system has:
1) Entities - which are merely ID tags which have a number of components
2) Components ...
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Is there a difference between casting and converting types in imperative programming languages?
The question came up in a discussion at StackOverflow.
Is there a clean distinction between the two concepts cast and convert (concerning the type of an object), or are these two words describing ...
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Are there any books that explain non-specific programming concepts? [closed]
I consider myself a beginner-moderately skilled programmer (dabbled in a number of languages now, settling on PHP for web development now) looking to better myself.
I've spent a great deal of time on ...
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In C++, were SFINAE and metaprogramming intentional or just a byproduct of templates?
SFINAE and template metaprogramming can do wonderful things and many libraries also use them considerably.
Historically both of these "magic concepts" were intentionally introduced/supported in C++ ? ...
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What are the London and Chicago schools of TDD?
I’ve been hearing about the London style vs. Chicago style (sometimes called Detroit style) of Test Driven Development (TDD).
Workshop of Utah Extreme Programming User's Group:
Interaction-style ...
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How valuable and rare is being able to create something from scratch?
I just found out the other day that the previous web company where I worked for 8 years will pretty much be shut down except for occasional updates and support of existing applications.
I was ...
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Legal Applications of Metamorphic Code
Firstly, I would like to state that I already understand the 'vx' applications for Metamorphic code. I am not here to ask a question related to any of those topics as that would be inappropriate in ...
