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What happened to all the compilers? [on hold]
In various articles and here are Stack Exchange I'll occasionally find old references (usually 2009 or earlier) to compilers that seem to no longer be used.
Don Clugston's FastDelegate article ...
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Is this a commonly encountered situation in C++? Is there a pattern to handle it?
I am writing a game in C++, and something I have noticed is that I have many resource files which need to be loaded after a particular point in initialization.
For example, OpenGL textures and VAOs ...
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Who provides hardware resources in private cloud?
I find myself confusing to understand the concept of private cloud. If a company has an offshore data-center, and now if the company wants to move into a private cloud, what does the company has to ...
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Static methods vs Interface implementation
Here is my problem:
I stared to create a e-commerce web sites info collector.
So i created a parser for each site.
The parser class is state less.
got methods like:
getItemPrice(WebElement page)
...
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How can I use Mongodb with the capabilities for graph databases like neo4j?
How can I use Mongodb with the capabilities for graph databases like neo4j?
I want to create a application like Linked In, MongoDB seems to be a promising database for this kind of application in ...
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Why is no default constructor generated if you define an explicit constructor?
class Employee{
String name;
int id;
//No explicit constructors
}
Now i can invoke the following statement
Employee e1=new Employee();
Now the compiler( i'am not sure about who ...
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About on licenses available to create and publish an Android Application
I want to know if there are any restrictions on licenses for my application, have thought about having my application under the license Creative Commons. I want to protect my application of ...
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Do we need to test 32 bit software in 64 bit Windows?
I'm working in a software development team as software developer. I've been working on the same project for 3 years now. The software is a 32 bit desktop based C# application in .NET 4. Our target ...
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Google Sheets Conditional Formating - If date has match
I need help accomplishing this:
If a date in Column A has a matching a date found in Column C, apply green formatting.
I've toyed with VLOOKUP but something isn't working:
Help!
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What do you call the line/s of code that declare that a class or function is a template?
I'm writing some macros which declare template types and I'm a bit stumped for terminology. To illustrate, take the following example:
// template class declaration
template <typename A, typename ...
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CouchDB and document versioning
I'm currently working on a wiki-esque application using CouchDB and am trying to implement a document versioning scheme. The way I see it there are two ways of doing this:
Store each version as a ...
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Find n nodes farthest away from each other [on hold]
I'm looking for an algorithm that gives me the n nodes that are the farthest away from each other.
Can this be accomplished relatively efficiently?
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Integrate a codeigniter website into a core PhP website with no framework? [on hold]
I am getting a website built. Actually, this has been going on for a couple years now unfortunately and I can see why now reading about all the bugs that are created when no framework is used.
The ...
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Restrict Access to Page Options
So I've yet to find a simple tutorial/library to implement oAuth with Coldfusion without the complexity of a userbase. I literally have an LTI tool where I set the app secret and all I need is a page ...
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Understanding Boyer-Moore Algorithm
I'm trying to implement Boyer-Moore algorithm according to this. I'm not sure if it is part of a book or if it's just some university notes. According to it (just before Theorem 0.2.4):
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FizzBuzz on Large Scale
So I was asked to create FizzBuzz at an interview... Easy enough but then they say what if there is a million data points. ie. divisible by 3 divisble by 5 divisble by 6 up until a billion. What is ...
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Search user-created lists for element [on hold]
Given a (very large) set of user-created lists (of strings, for simplicity), can one string be found in real time in all lists, returning the lists that contain the string?
Is it doable if there is ...
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Is there a 'standard' SQL that can replace all the various custom versions?
I have been writing SQL for over 10 years now. I am extremely proficient at it and have experience working in SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. While there are multiple standards out there, ...
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When writing object-oriented code, should I always be following a design pattern?
Is there a conceivable design pattern for any object-oriented program? I ask this because recently I saw an implementation of a Door class with a Lock. It was part of a test and the answer said that ...
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Should test data be checked into version control?
I'm writing some test code for a feature which processes PDF files. The basic idea behind the tests is that I point them towards some PDFs I've selected specially, they process them and I check that ...
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Should I denote that a method satisfies an interface?
When writing a class which has ("satisfies") 1 or more interfaces, should I note somehow (e.g. in an XML comment, or with an attribute) that a particular method was added for one of the interfaces?
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When does it make sense to compile my own language to C code first?
When designing an own programming language, when does it make sense to write a converter that takes the source code and converts it to C or C++ code so that I can use an existing compiler like gcc to ...
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How do I design my application to use REST for itself?
I'm not sure how to ask this. I know this is simplistic, but I understand (I think):
REST is an architecture, not required, simply a way to build
REST is a style and a community standard for ...
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Reliable way to generate a token in a SOAP webservice
Legacy SOAP service here at work use a token authentication. The flow is:
As first step I call the startSession method passing username (say myUser) and password (say myPWD) as parameter. At this ...
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Do I need EventAggregator here?
I'm learning MVVM pattern with C#, WPF and .NET Framework 4.5.1.
I'm using MVVM Light framework to do it and now I have a doubt. Reading the book Windows 8 MVVM Patterns Revealed I see that the ...
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If you had a choice debugging deadlock problem or a liverlock problem [on hold]
If you had a choice debugging deadlock problem or a liverlock problem,Which would you choose?Why?How would you proceed?
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What is the difference between uninitialized object variable and object variable initialized to null in Java
I have the following two object variables
Date a;
Date b=null;
Definitely both 'a' and 'b' are not referring to any objects.
Now if I invoke following statement
System.out.println(a.toString());
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1answer
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eshop cart saved per user [on hold]
I'm developing eshop and was thinking about the cart session and how to increase lifetime of cart session or if I should choose another approach.
My problem
When user puts items in his cart and wont ...
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What to consider in coding guidelines for C++11/14? [on hold]
My company recently decided to fully switch to C++11 standard. It means that we have to update our C++ coding guidelines.
What rules / recommendations should we add to the guidelines document so that ...
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Git Workflow for multiple sites sharing common functionality [duplicate]
Apologies if you've heard this question or variants of it multiple times before.
However, I have the following situation:
We develop a site using Drupal/Wordpress - let's call it Site Foo_A. We're ...
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Point on a rectangle perimeter [on hold]
In order to build a graph editor I want to link properly two nodes represented by rectangles.
I am looking for the coordinates of the p0 and p1 points on the rectangles.
I know the coordinates of ...
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Is it possible to change out an image src=“” before the original image loads [migrated]
I've been looking at Javascript that can change the src of an image. I'm simply wondering if this can be done before the browser attempts to fetch the original image.
Example.
Src="Large-Image"
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How can I aggregate data from separated databases in more efficient way?
Firstm I'm using PostgreSQL 9.3.
I'm solving the problem which is to retrieve a data from a separated databases and to render it into a web page. The web project is on the Java (JSF 1.2). Presently ...
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Code igniter uri routing with id [on hold]
=======controller
class Event extends CI_Controller {
public function index($id = null) {
$this->load->view('header');
$this->load->model('get_event');
$data['results'] = ...
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design for buffering or queuing data streams to replace database
We have a system (ms stack, .net, sql) that receives data from thousands of remote devices (several independent readings/min). We currently save all the data to a db as it arrives and a second service ...
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kineticjs vs raphaeljs vs bonsaijs vs paperjs [on hold]
I will start a project and I have to choose one of this libraries.
I already have done some projects in kinecticjs, but I'm concerned that it will stop to be supported.
Does anyone now why this page ...
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How can I test a method which aggregates data from a database? [on hold]
I'm developing the web Java application and come across the following issue:
I'm using jUnit 4.5.
Suppose that I have a method which aggregates data from a database for the rendering their to a ...
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Logging approaches (procedural vs semantic vs…) [on hold]
While some approaches to requirements of an application seem to change at a daily pace (think persistence -> from flatfiles to cavemens SQL to repositories to ORM to NoSQL), I've got the feeling that ...
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Is it worth to bother with iPhone 4 when developing a new application? [on hold]
[EDIT]
Moved question to AskDifferent : http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/148011/is-it-worth-to-bother-with-iphone-4-when-developing-a-new-application
As it seems off topic on this site.
I'm ...
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How to scrub Twitter and Facebook posts for many users
I'm making an Rails app that in theory should scrub new posts from the users facebook and twitter accounts and put them in a timeline for an analyst to analyze and determine if they are good or bad ...
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looking for PHP framework, but not MVC [on hold]
I'm looking for a collection of classes or framework that doesn't force me to use his MVC structure
I would like to add class to my project as regular include where i need
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Optimal Database design for 3-way relationship
All right, I know this sounds complicated, but all relationships are, lemme clarify. Well, I have three entities in my database which are tied to each other in a string of relationships, the app is ...
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Making a website with user login [on hold]
I'm trying to make a website as quickly as possible. Basically the requirements are:
A few pages with static content, some pages will have forms to submit
(I'm fine with using Google forms or ...
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Best practice for creating custom UIViews [on hold]
I'm working on an iOS app that relies heavily on custom uiviews and I am not sure whether laying out the views via a nib in interface builder would be a better option than doing the entire process ...
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What is the benefit of a function without parameters which only calls another function
A tutorial (for Javascript) I'm doing suggests we write a function like this one:
function sayHello() {
//Some comments explaining the next line
window.alert("Hello");
}
Other than ...
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Understanding Code Help! [on hold]
I dont know if it is okay to ask this type of question here.
I have a project of developing an online chess game (multiplayer; no AI). However I am completely new at coding and the supervisors are ...
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where to place jquery code? [on hold]
i am loading an HTML page (say b) into another page's (say a) div element using AJAX. After loading I want to dynamically modify some html elements present on the page being loaded i.e. b using ...
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When should I implement authentication in a database?
I'm currently embarking on a MongoDB project (a simple user login system), and I notice that there is an option for authentication. Here is the server string, with the userinfo shown as optional ...
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Looking for suggestions on git workflows [on hold]
I am trying to figure out a good workflow for our development team.
We have several project teams that require to work in isolation on their respective branches. (a project here consists of a set of ...
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Debug symbols change application execution [on hold]
I have to set up remote debugging for a multi threaded application running on a embedded device. C++ is the language.
I've gotten so far and got the remote debugging working for a simple application, ...
