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Naming factory methods
What should I name my factories' methods?
getX() are typically considered accessors of the object's intrinsic properties. However, factories supply instances of classes that are not associated in any ...
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Naming convenience wrappers
I wrote a wrapper around FEST's ComponentFinder. It does the same thing as the delegate, looks for java.awt.Components in GUI, but in a more convenient manner for its clients (e.g. you don't have to ...
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Microservice Architecture Design
I want to create one service that reads data from two databases and passes it to the customer devices. Is this an overall bad design decision? I think that since it is only read-only, it should be ...
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How can I get started on refactoring my code base?
https://github.com/Darkroman/PK-Battle-Simulator/
Over some time I made a fully working (text based) Pokemon Battle Simulator in C++ as I was learning the language on my off time. At the moment I have ...
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Problems with designing an intuitive cli experience
Warning: This may be a stupid/atypical question but I just don't know what to do. Any suggestion is welcome when it comes to change the existing behavior as long as the features are the same.
The ...
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What's a good way to use exceptions in a C++ project?
The basics: what I know
I understand the basics of exceptions:
If a function cannot perform its assigned task, it can signal it by throwing an exception,
When writing a function, one must make sure ...
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What is beyond ordinary c++, when trying to optimize a function?
Backstory:
Writing a QImage to Sixel renderer.
Feel like I have optimized it the best I can using basic c++.
I have heard suggestions here or there that you can utilize things like GPU, SIMD, insert ...
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Why does C allow escaping apostrophes / single quotation marks in string literals
As far as I can tell, the strings "It's me" and "It\'s me" are always identical. There seems to be no reason when a programmer needs to escape '. Yet, I could not find and ...
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Proper place to validate JSON in an ASP.NET core app
I am building an ASP.NET Core 10.0 web-app using .NET's MVC model w/ Kestrel to serve it. The app will deploy on an Azure VM. It's a personal project, therefore, I decided to go with Cosmos DB as the ...
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Scope of integration tests
I'm programming a .NET WebApi application from services.
What is the scope of an integration test within the following schema?
Order creation scenario:
Order is created
-> stored in db
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Designing Password Recovery for an Offline-First Password Manager
I'm designing a password manager app for Android that prioritizes offline first security the idea is to store the vault locally and avoid any cloud dependencies during normal usage.
However, I'm ...
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C#'s Aversion to Array
I have noticed in documentation, looking at open-source code bases, and just a general sense in the industry that C# developers largely prefer to use List<> or IEnumerable<> over simple ...
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Modeling superstate and substate combinations in DDD
I am designing an analytics application using domain driven design and test driven development.
I am having difficulty modeling the following requirement:
The application shows a workitem's state. ...
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Scaling/microservices approach to reading files from same directory
My company receives files via SFTP. We currently have a service running on a timer that:
polls the inbound directory
moves files to an 'In Progress' directory
processes files (queueing messages for ...
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Classpath hell: independently updated apps with shared dependencies
This is how our desktop applications are launched. In this case, it's called DesktopApp (I changed the actual name). As you see, the dependencies are hard-coded, including their versions. In the ...
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