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Feedback on API design of a HalfEdge Data structure
Background
Sometimes also referred to as doubly connected edge list, the HalfEdge data structure allows programmers to efficiently and easily modify topological and geometric properties of a mesh. ...
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Should I separate algorithms that rely on a data structure into different classes
I'm learning about graph algorithms, so to learn them better I'm beginning to write some of them using c++. For example, I created the code for implementing the Depth First Search algorithm. Here's ...
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How do function inlining and TCO affect call stack?
I've just accidentally came across this answer about inlined functions and I'd like to know how this affects call stack. But I can't add comments because I don't have enough rep so I decided to ask ...
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Is storing computed values always bad?
Edit: I'm copying the question but changing the example code. Apparently, I used a bad example earlier that contained an imprue getter. I'm keeping the old example code at the bottom so the first ...
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What is the required tech stack for building a webapp with user-specific reports and data upload? [closed]
I am a beginner and don't know what a viable tech stack for this is. I've searched elsewhere and am unable to find an answer.
I want to know what services (the tech stack) are requisite for making a ...
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I can not manage my software project truly. Can you give advice? [closed]
I am managing a software cms system project but we have communication problem between frontend and backend teams. For example, frontend team requesting a method api. Backend team makes a method after ...
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How many domain models should I have? [duplicate]
Let's say I'm developing a simple blog and decided to use DDD.
Is it ok to have root aggregate called Posts which uses Posts abstract repository implementation of which can save both Posts and Tags(...
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Pull request merge process requiring rebase after every commit merged into master?
I'm working in a codebase at work that requires that anyone who wants to merge a PR rebase against the last master prior to merging the pull request. To further complicate things, CI (which takes ...
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Serializing key-values vs array of options
Is there a reason to encode options like this:
{
"options":[
{
"name":"opt1",
"value":"val1",
},
{
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What is a viable tech stack for building webapp with user-specific reports and data upload? [closed]
I'm not wondering what the "best" tech stack is, because I know this is subjective and depends heavily on the specific context. However, I am a beginner and don't know what a viable tech ...
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Sandboxing interpreted code
I have a little pet compiler project that generates bytecode interpreted by a virtual machine. The language is kind of low-level, as it allows the user to manually allocate memory and dereference any ...
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HELP! How should I represent this relationship? [closed]
Currently I'm trying to create a database schema for an IT inventory system. I've ran into a pickle at the moment as I don't exactly know how to represent the relationship between the pc and software ...
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Should logic with multiple SQL executions go in model or controller?
For one of my web application API's POST endpoints, I make updates to multiple tables with separate SQL statements, which all form a single SQL transaction.
Specifically, it inserts some data into a ...
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Matching dependency versions across multiple Python projects
I have about 60 repos containing Python packages, currently using setuptools in a setup.py (run via pip install) to manage third-party dependencies. Most of these packages need to be installed on a ...
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Airflow DAG vs custom worker to process queue of videos
I need to process a queue of videos in a scalable way. Processing includes number of tasks that can depend on each other. Some tasks are computationally expensive some not (e.g. transcribe audio, ...
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Data Modeling: Are technical concepts within a tool that implement a business entity entities as well?
I believe this forum is the correct one for my question, based on the community guidelines but let me know if not. It seemed like the best fit.
I am performing a data modeling exercise to formulate a ...
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Is a 'base' file always necessary when doing a merge?
Are there any algorithms that can do or suggest merges without requiring the "base" file, the most recent common ancestor of the two file versions that we want to merge?
Is a manual merge ...
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What is the minimum now() functionality required for std::chrono clocks
I would like to use std::chrono::time_point in some simulation software I am writing. I would like to take advantage of features like the time point arithmetic functions. However, I run into a snag. ...
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Is a Hybrid Decentralized Messaging System with Ephemeral Data Storage Scalable and Suitable? [closed]
I’m in the process of designing a messaging system with the following characteristics and components:
Nature: Hybrid decentralized.
Centralized Servers:
Serve as bootstrap nodes.
Run IPFS gateways (...
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Is there a name for this partially ordered versioning scheme?
Versions are on the form:
x.y.z.[..]
Where these letters are numbers and there are arbitrarily many of them.
The first version is 1. The next one is 2. The only time when you
branch out to the next ...
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Strategies for Adapting SQL-Based Data Retrieval to a Newly Introduced REST API in a Short Timeline
I'm in a pickle following a recent executive decision by our parent company. They have elected to abstract away our SQL data warehouse, transitioning to a REST API for data retrieval. The purported ...
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C# correct design for creating a decoupled methods or services [closed]
We have a requirement in .net microservice architecture, where we need to have two different operations, one is to support old functionality and second is to create a new functionality, so our our ...
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Problem domains to draw data flow diagram [closed]
Can someone suggest me some unique and innovative problem domains for which I can draw DFD. It's my uni project but I'm unable to get some problem domains for which software solutions aren't available ...
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How to merge SQL Server database authentication with firebase authentication?
I have Firebase connected to my web app and users can authenticate using the 'microsoft' provider. The provider only allows authenticating with the active directory tenant that I specified in my ...
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Persistant Browser Display Settings for Users
I have a question about what's the best approach to handle persistent data for web apps.
I have a web app that is authenticating through an auth service. once authenticated it makes requests to the ...
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GoLang for-loop variable scope change and Table driven testing
As I was reading this blog post: https://go.dev/blog/loopvar-preview about scope of loop variables and as I’m trying to learn #GoLang, I asked myself the question: “okay, but is really so common ...
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SMTP Server from scratch in node.js [closed]
B"H
I've seen many blogs and stack overflow questions about setting up nodejs to use a pre-existing smtp server, especially through modules like nodemailer etc. Some of what I've already seen:
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DDD On Large Scale Applications
Working on DDD lately got me thinking about how it preforms on large scale systems.
Watching many tutorials and reading many articles makes it look fun and promising for small projects.
I have three ...
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Leetcode: 2327. Number of People Aware of a Secret and Problem with programming skill in general
On day 1, one person discovers a secret.
You are given an integer delay, which means that each person will share the secret with a new person every day, starting from delay days after discovering the ...
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Overview/comparing smart contract development to other software engineering areas [closed]
I'm a novice in smart contract development and am just doing a little research to gain a high-level overview. So I'd like to compare it in terms of complexity to other (more familiar to me) software ...
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How does a flow of architecture of a digital banking system looks like?
I am working at a digital banking company i.e company that provides software for banks so that the customers of that bank can use banking services via smartphone.
But the documentation there is non-...
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Assigning to fields in function or by function?
While writing the constructor for class A in Python, I calculate some of the class's fields using function fun(). This function is never used outside the constructor of instances of this class.
In ...
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How to design membership validation for paid software? [closed]
Could you please explain the payment validation feature is designed/ paid software?
We are aware that many paid software applications restrict access to advanced features if the user a paying member.
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Should a bug fixer know the overall structure what the program does?
I heard that if you maintain program, you have to study what the code does. Another engineering said it is not necessary. Just use test cases to find out the function that does not work well, modify ...
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Relevance of dependency Injection
During my career I only used DI to insert object of certain class based on certain interface. So there was never the situation when I needed two different bindings for one interface.
So natural ...
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How to show type introspection in UML
I'm modeling a part of Python/Qt GUI code which uses reflection to construct a collection of widgets, in a form. The code works like this:
There is a Model which has attributes of various types, ...
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Designing an Accepted/202 endpoint
I have an end point where a user can start an update operation. I don't want to make the user wait for the result. There are two possible outcomes:
The action is succesful - nothing to do for the ...
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Is it practical to make an exe without it being flagged as false-positive for malware?
I made a small utility as a PowerShell script. It worked fine, but wasn't very practical when getting other people to run it who weren't familiar with PowerShell. I modified it to add a GUI using ...
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Python command line - best practices for specifying output format, arguments or flags? [closed]
I am writing a python CLI tool that outputs results in json, csv, tsv, excel etc. I am considering the following options for the CLI design:
Option 1 (argument):
python <tool.py> --format [json|...
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Design a grading system for the institutions/Govt on an event of exam cancellation like the one happend in 2021 [closed]
can you please help me solve below object oriented design problem? basically requirement is to design classes and their interactions. It was asked to me in an interview and I was rejected in that ...
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Is it necessary or "class obsession" (opposite to primitive obsession) to create classes for non-business fields?
I know there are some posts talk about primitive obsession : When is primitive obsession not a code smell?, Is "avoid the yo-yo problem" a valid reason to allow the "primitive obsession&...
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I do not like RESTful APIs anymore and dont understand why nobody agrees with me [closed]
Some years ago, every API I developed was a REST API and I did everything to follow the best practices to make them "RESTful".
But after some time, I have my doubts if RESTful APIs that ...
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How to ensure data consistency in system with multiple databases?
Let's say, in a rather big application suite with multiple more or less integrated products, data is stored across multiple databases. Some of them are SQL-ish DB clusters, some are MongoDB clusters.
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Multiple objects using the same connection for communication, filter messages "above" or inside the objects?
I have a single connection being used by multiple devices, and I'd like to filter the messages so that each device only reacts to messages intended for it. This can be done with an unique ID field in ...
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An IoT client and MVC-based server. Data model with different fields per type?
The problem
Let's assume such scenario:
List of IoT devices (one model?)
Each list item has (among other fields) a type field
Depending on the value in the type field, device may report different ...
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How to optimize Media Uploads for a Web App: Client-side Compression & Architecture Resources? [closed]
I'm working on a new web app that allows users to upload images and videos and share them with others. I'm primarily looking to optimize the upload process and have a couple of questions:
Client-side ...
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How many bits are required to store 32 megabytes of memory in a bit addressable ISA? [duplicate]
I was attempting to solve a Computer Architecture, and want to clarify this. Let's take there is a memory of 32 Megabytes of memory and to address this in a bit addressable format, how many bits are ...
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How to handle a Spring service class too big? [closed]
I have a Spring Boot app with a fat service implementation ServiceImpl that throws the Sonar issue :
Classes should not have too many methods
The service has two public methods: create() and update()...
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Python program for Mac OS not working on double click but works fine through terminal [closed]
I wrote a python program that involved the HL7 library to convert HL7 files into csv files. The implemented environment is MacOS Ventura. Python 3.11 used to develop.
The app was created using Py2App ...
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frontend server obtain data from backend server, or frontend server return page with javascript that obtain data from backend server?
I'm currently learning how to separate frontend server and backend server. However, i'm not sure which approach should i take between the two
Frontend server obtain data from backend server and ...
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