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Design strategies for storing and validating serial numbers
We are writing software to track Foo Widgets. Each Foo Widget has a serial number. The serial number is an 32-character alphanumeric string. The string is separated into five sets. Each set is ...
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Designing access to file-based “database”
It happened frequently that I have to provide access to a bunch of files organized in a directory tree according to some (sometimes loosely specified) rules. My standard pattern is to provide a ...
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Design review for application facing memory issues
I apologise in advance for the length of this post, but I want to paint an accurate picture of the problems my app is facing and then pose some questions below;
I am trying to address some self ...
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how to create a data model for the following problem
How to tackle 2-D and 3-D space in data ? lets say you are working on a power grid problem. You need to represent Towers; transmission lines; transformers and every thing else in a 2-D space. How ...
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Is there a list of common usernames to reserve in a new system?
I need to reserve usernames in my new website.
These generally fall into three categories
1) usernames no-one should have (eg: admin, user, service, help, root, etc)
2) names of super famous people ...
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Resources on how to relate structured and semi- / un-structured information
I don't have a great background in information organisation / retrieval, but I know of a few ways of dealing with the problem. For structured information, it's possible to go OOish - everything ...
