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40,767karma·16,215submissions·June 22, 2018
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I often use the name pattern `rolesByEmployee` in that situation.
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I've been using the MYN system [1] for the last couple of years for work-related todos. One aspect of it is what you could call a "priority stack". That is, it behaves like a stack, exc…
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It’s not deprecated. As you say, it is needed to actually open a connection.
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I'd recommend Eveditor ( http://eveditor.com ). Of course it would be better if Windows had something like that built-in.
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> Take the iPhone X, launched 2 years ago, used it's around $570 today, versus the $999 it launched at. > Meanwhile, a $300 phone tends to drop down to $100 on the 2nd hand market two years…
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According to rumors, the 2020 iPhone Pro will be reduced from 5.8" to 5.4", which could look like this (size comparison including SE): https://blogs.forbes.com/gordonkelly&#x…
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I always thought of it as (only) two pluses, just differently arranged (diagonally overlapped).
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You can use a loopback file to work around that, e.g. see https://metabubble.net/linux/how-to-keep-using-dropbox-even-... .…
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The killer feature of the iPhone SE (and its predecessors) is that it can be comfortably operated with just one hand and fits in every pocket. That‘s why many people will continue to use it until it b…
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> And if a type system can not guard against run-time errors, what’s the merit of having one? The type annotations would document the programmer's assumptions and lead to fail-fast behavior. I…
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Nitpick: DRY isn't directly a SOLID concept. I find SPOT (Single Point Of Truth) to be more to the point than DRY, because it is explicitly about semantics and not about mere syntactic repetition…
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The main thing to consider is which way of spending one's time will be more fulfilling in the long run.
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And here I thought this was about how to make your own Logo interpreter in Scratch. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) [2] https://scratch.m…
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The use of the word "abstract" in "abstract class" comes from the notion of abstract data types, introduced by Barbara Liskov and Stephen Zilles in 1974 in their paper "Progra…
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