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How about instead of #define bool _Bool #define true 1 #define false 0 #define __bool_true_false_are_defined 1 We should have this: #define bool _Bool #define true (bool)1 #define false (bool)0 #...

In this and this stack overflow questions, the answers state that C as a compiler backend is a bad idea. But why? C has many compilers that can heavily optimize it. Every platform has a compiler ...

I have the following use case about a video rental store which has the following actors: Member (Gold, Ordinal) Assistant Supplier Clerk The system is a desktop application for renting and reserving ...

This is a difficult question that can involve many people, it is a real scenario and can have real consequences. A big organization with about 100 developers, working on different teams. The teams ...

I'm working with several Excel worksheets and workbooks that need to consolidated or linked to each other. These workbooks will track client interactions for different team members. I did the initial ...

I'm working on a Spring Boot application which uses a Repository-Service-Controller-View architecture, and am about to implement my first validated web form, namely one to create or modify a user's ...

I'm trying to clean up some of my code using some best practices, and read that comments are almost always a bad idea for future maintainability. I've managed to get rid of most of them by refactoring ...

I have a piece of code (a Facade) that creates every single infrastructure component on aws. private void synthesizeStack() { Deployer<Vpc> vpcDeployer = new VpcDeployer(this); Deployer&...

Recently, I have been told by others to look into containerization of my stateless web applications (in this case .NET Core 2.x and 3.1). All of my dependencies are retrieved from public and private ...

I am developing a blog website, for each post, it has a list of tags, just like stackoverflow. There is no doubt that in the server side, i will expose a api like blog/edit to the client side, and ...

we have a monolith that basically reaches close to a 100k IoT devices/routers and tries to gather some information about them. As you can imagine, this can take close up to 40 hours for the process ...

This is probably a very basic question, but I have never worked on a team before and I'm not sure if there is an obvious answer or if I'm too bad at googling. Regardless, I can't find a clear answer ...

My employer recently learned of Laravel, and has asked us to migrate much of our development to it. None of us have issues with this, as we’ve all played around with it. We have two main in-house ...

I have an application that consists of multiple sections of which each section will need to load data from various API calls. Now I'm thinking of taking advantage of Session variables(or caching) to ...

I wrote a lot of code with the intention of it being usable not only in the WordPress space, but everywhere and because of that, I've been very, very against returning WP_Errors and resorted to only ...

I've been a relentless proponent of small files. I prefer one function export per file, functions with everything-in-one-view, and breaking up UI components as much as sensible (which is why I love ...

I have a design question about data. I have a class "T" that has a single interface handling two data types as described below. The class T is constructed to handle one of the two data types. Users of ...

I'm starting on a greenfield project and haven't done or architected the sign-up/sign-in and auth part of the backend in a very long time, so my knowledge on the nowadays' good practices is very ...

I'm not sure where to place the following checks I have now in the material domain class. The issue is, that I need to validate that material exists and is valid in external database. Only after that ...

I am a little bit confused about simple factory and factory method. My main difficult is the abrut difference between the examples code on the internet, even on wikipedia, where have lots of them, ...

This is a question I constantly ask myself when designing a data intensive application: When is it appropriate to use stream() over parallelStream()? Would it make sense to use both? How do I quantify ...

I am starting to work in a company. In this company, we have a set of products. These products are inherently related and have many shared functionalities and parts. Each of our products consists of a ...

I'm actually building an application that relies on multiple third parties (like 10-12) and I'm wondering if I should test my application with its third parties integrations. I had a discussion with ...

I guess most of you already met them. You get them from your data sources, see them in your logs, or in the output from your legacy systems. Some strings you can't really read. To derive any useful ...

I'm suppose to identify 3 CK metrics and the most appropriate class to refactor so as to increase encapsulation, modularity and reduce the complexity of the following project According to my ...

I'm looking for general advice regarding the structure of applications. In applications I've been building recently, I've started to use a class (I'll refer to it as DataManager for the rest of the ...

I have a city review app and will let people review the cities where they have been. Forget about users for a while. So in the db will look like this CITIES: REVIEWS: | id | name | ...

Currently an enum in our project takes properties in the constructor. They are practically guaranteed to be entirely different across every different enum. Now I'd like to add an property which is a ...

I have a common style (common.scss) and a text direction (RTL, LTR) option file (option-document-direction-rtl.scss, option-document-direction-ltr.scss). And by switching the reading of these files, ...

I confess, the question title suggest a "too broad" question, but here me out first... I am only interested in verifying my findings in that regard. All the following situations have the following in ...

I'm working for a large company that's currently overhauling its network infrastructure, and several departments within the company have expressed interest in APM, desiring a tool for performance ...

I've a habit I just mechanically do without even thinking too much about it. Whenever a constructor is waiting for some parameters, I consider this a public information that should be available by ...

I was reading the Cloud Foundry docs on Pushing Apps with Sidecar Processes. Under Limitations, there was a point stating health-checks: Sidecars only support PID-based health checks. HTTP ...

I am building a Browser Extension that captures a Selection made by the user in any web page, and stores it in his account. I don't quite know how to proceed with this, however. My initial thought ...

First a couple of examples: var val = obj.GetValue(); var can = obj.CanPlay; var has = obj.HasValue; var val = obj.RequiresConstantRepaint(); // From Unity var val = obj.PlayOnAwake; // From Unity ...

I have devices thay play video files from their local disk basing on a pre-defined playlist (every device plays exactly the same movie in the same order, every device knows in advance what videos will ...

I have a business object which is basically a wrapper around a value of type int. There are some constraints for the value/object: Not every value in int's range is valid1 The valid values are not a ...

I'm writing a fairly large piece of logic, during which there are 6 points where things could go wrong and execution should stop after logging the error. The error is also stored in an object. ...

I am working at a medium-size semi-govermental organization managing subcontractors for software projects. One of our contractors recently turned in the "source code" for the project they had ...

I have a software project A which makes API calls to a third-party software B that is heavily based on data stored on the file system. Also, those software and file systems are distributed on servers ...

In some C projects, function names start with a common prefix indicative of the module name, for example: mymodule_do_this_stuff(); mymodule_do_that_stuff(); Is there a justification for doing so ...

My question is not about dilemma between clean code vs performance, but I want to understand exact issue with declaring variables and sharing them between functions. I read in many threads, that from ...

A manufacturer sells different flavour chocolates. Customers can place an order for any number of each flavour chocolate, from zero upwards. Some combinations of chocolates are frequently ordered, ...

I am trying to build a API for doing CRUD on images with their caption. So far I can think of option1: sending the images in form-data as list of images and their corresponding captions in another ...

I'm building a Restful API and trying to use JSON:API format for my response. Looking at https://jsonapi.org/format/, it states: A resource object MUST contain at least the following top-level ...

TLDR Im asking for reference projects to look at to see where I can learn how to code + structure large scale projects (in python would be ideal). A detailed guide would be perfect, but I think those ...

Context: I'm building a popup widget. The html and css files are stored in S3. I need to get those files asynchronously and then continue with the rest of the logic. In the code below, I'm getting ...

Well in working with scrum it's always seen as important to make clearly defined stop and start points of small tasks. However how do you capture "ongoing" tasks into a scrum system? Like on friday ...

I wanted to learn more about DNS, and I happened to have a copy of Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach 4th Edition lying around. Section 2.5.1 (page 132) suggests using DNS as a load balancer: ...

Could someone please tell about ways to load initial data? Most obvious way is to use SQL script. But in case if ORM used in project, is it will be better to use Dao to write to database(or initial ...