Unanswered Questions
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What's the progress on Haskell records?
Recently I stumbled once again on the issues of Haskells records, in particular the uniqueness of field names (it's a pain ...)
I already read A proposal for records in Haskell from SPJ and Greg ...
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Can we make it easier to add data flows between distant parts of a large codebase?
When making changes to large systems, I often face the problem that some piece of functionality needs to get some data from another piece, but they're in different parts of a deep and branching call ...
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Y combinator and tail call optimizations
The definition of a Y combinator in F# is
let rec y f x = f (y f) x
f expects to have as a first argument some continuation for the recursive subproblems.
Using the y f as a continuation, we see ...
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Rosyln versus T4 for code generation
So I have a lot of knowledge invested in T4. I've wrote a few code generators of varying complexity and generally love it with the caveat of code-generating-code being difficult to unit test(but I ...
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What API design for storing generic data in a more specific format?
In the project I am working on we send messages about widgets over message queues, serializing them onto the queues as XML. The XML schema contains tags for properties that are common to all types of ...
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Why is the use of the STE template no longer recommended for EF5?
I was looking to upgrade my project from EF4.1/Framework 4.0 to EF5/Framework 4.5. After reading up on migrating the t4 templates for STE's (Self-Tracking Entities), I came across this link that ...
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How to optimise an sentiment analysis algorithm for larger data sets?
I am a noob to sentiment analysis and found a good resource for Bayesian Opinion Mining and a way to make it self improving. I was wondering though, if the optimum analysis is dependent upon the ...
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Ledger or log design for a point-based system?
Right now creating a new service that will integrate into our company's existing platform. The service will be responsible for tracking "points" that a user can generate over time through certain ...
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CMS updates into subversion -> review process
We manage a range of client sites built in Wordpress and Joomla and these require regular updates to the core CMS and extensions. We keep these sites in subversion and place updates in subversion. We ...
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A design pattern for data binding an object (with subclasses) to asp.net user control
I have an abstract class called Address and I am deriving three classes ; HomeAddress, Work Address, NextOfKin address.
My idea is to bind this to a usercontrol and based on the type of Address it ...
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Can I use Visual Studio 2010 Architectural features to enforce design on code, without feature packs?
I am studying Visual Studio 2010's architectural tools for application lifecycle management.
After we have sketched some modeling diagrams, we wonder now how should be the natural workflow to convert ...
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Testing DatabaseOpenHelper class in Android
I've wrote several unit tests for already existing DatabaseOpenHelper class. I covered creation scenario and migration from old schema to new one. Unfortunately I don't fill that my tests are good. ...
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Optimization of a Hybrid Pagination Scheme
I'm working on a Web Application using node.js in which I'm building a partial copy of the database on the client-side to decrease the load on my server. Right now, I have a function like this ...
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Attachment handling for web application with Jackrabbit
I need to manage attachments on my Spring web application and I thought to use an open source repository. My app it's a job approval system using J2EE / SPRING 3 Framework and postgress DB to allow ...
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Any good Semantic Web online resources for software dependencies?
I am planning to learn Semantic Web technologies in a little bit more detail, and as a practical application it would be interesting to know if there are any online resources, readily in semantic ...
