Programmers.SE: why getMonth() starts with 0 — esqew 2 mins ago

programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/108495/… — Bergi 2 mins ago

This may be better suited for Programmers. — Chief Two Pencils 1 min ago

You probably didn't need to crosspost this on, four, different, sites. — Jason C 1 min ago

Welcome to SO! Is there anything you have tried so far that we can help you with? We are here to help programmers and programming enthusiasts. Showing some effort will go a long way. — Matt 39 secs ago

@ChiefTwoPencils this has already been closed on P.SE. The community on P.SE tends to take a rather dim view of questions about certificates: Why do certification questions keep getting closed? I would also suggest reading What goes on Programmers.SE? A guide for Stack Overflow as career and education advice (such as this) is specifically listed as off topic there. — MichaelT 51 secs ago

"I want to know what is the most correct, in terms of coding quality, and what do professional programmers use." - Never use public variables/fields (or so much so that it makes no difference), provide appropriate getters and setters to control access to the fields and manage there changes — MadProgrammer 27 secs ago

Hi this is off topic for stackoverflow I suggest you take it to programmers.stackexchange. regards. — BevynQ 1 min ago

Welcome to Stack Overflow. Please read the About page soon. I think that it is hard to provide solid answers to this; answers will be primarily opinion based, which is one of the reasons for closing a question. You should check to see whether Programmers would be a suitable place to ask this sort of question. — Jonathan Leffler 1 min ago

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is off topic here, see meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/274963/… . Try programmers.stackexchange.com — AdrianHHH 2 mins ago

@vevo demo: Yes, but neither will then be usable by their respective compilers. The best you can do is to obfuscate the code (which some programmers do unintentionally). — cdarke 1 min ago

@AdrianHHH and you see meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/7182/… — ratchet freak 1 min ago

SO is not for opinions ; programmers.stackexchange.com is. — cosmo0 1 min ago

For any C programmers, think of the difference between char** and char*. foo(char *a){a="hello";} does nothing, but if you do foo(char *a){a[0]='h';a[1]='i';a[2]=0;} it is changed outside because a is a memory location passed by value that references a string. Passing structs (similar to js objects) by value in C is allowed, but not recommended. JavaScript simply enforces these best practices and hides the unnecessary and usually undesired cruft... and it sure makes for easier reading. — technosaurus 18 secs ago

No code attempted here. Learners who are not yet Stata programmers are better off on Statalist. (Note all the most active people answering Stata questions here are active there too.) — Nick Cox 1 min ago

@ratchetfreak Thank you for the link which, by the way, says software licensing questions are on topic. I also checked in programmers.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic and this question appeared to be a good match for the two bulleted lists. The Q&A I referenced above also recommends programmers.s.c so could you please explain where I went wrong. — AdrianHHH 46 secs ago

Should it be moved to programmers? — matyyyy 33 secs ago

@VivekSachan : ask this on programmers stackexchange. — Chaitanya Gadkari 1 min ago

There are other sites in the Stack.-Network which might be better suited for that questions, since SO is mainly oriented towards bug-fixing ;-) Have a look at softwarerecs.stackexchange.com or programmers.stackexchange.com — MBaas 42 secs ago

@MBaas This question is not appropriate for Programmers. Recommendations for software packages are, just like here on Stack Overflow, off-topic. In the future, please don't suggest that people go to sites if you don't understand what that community accepts. — Thomas Owens 35 secs ago

@BevynQ - Please don't suggest Programmers for questions like this. Firstly it leads to cross posts and secondly the question is in the process of being closed there as well. — ChrisF ♦ 54 secs ago

@AdamBrave Side comment: you might want to study some Java coding style guides - as your code really doesn't look like 99% of Java programmers would expect it to look like (esp. regarding Caseness of names) — EddyG 2 mins ago

"Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers." — pnuts 1 min ago

Ok.. Thanks for the feedback. SO is supposed to be the go-to place for programmers to ask questions. Also not sure how this question was "off-topic" as I'm trying to figure out how to design my cookbooks. — Nick 2 mins ago

@JDischler Oh so you didn't have a 32 bit binary number after all. Then why are you complaining about my comment about 32 binary number literals, if it isn't relevant to you? I even wrote "Any binary number larger than 8 bits is going to be quite unreadable.". And please illuminate me about why programmers use hexadecimal numbers. — Lundin 1 min ago

@iharob: I certainly agree that goto is the cleanest choice more often than some dogmatic programmers would like to think but I hardly see the problem here. There is a loop terminated by breaks, with an idiomatic Duff's device entry which any self-respecting C programmer ought to be able to parse. — doynax 2 mins ago

@JonathanLeffler - Ultimately this is just a poll of others' experiences. Not on-topic for SO or Programmers. "I'm looking for some feedback from people..." — GlenH7 44 secs ago

You could write a simple HTTP servlet in java to handle requests. The most important part is storing the data, which you'll do in a database. There are a lot of options, you should try asking in programmers.stackexchange — Eric S. 1 min ago

Thanks Tejay.. Yea, first time I'm actually disappointed with SO. Supposed to be an information exchange for programmers. Have they all gone mad on their high horse? Arghhh — Nick 48 secs ago

I was trying to find a good article to link on this but a cursory google search didn't show up anything to the point. Yes you can do that but in general the boolean type should be considered very different to a type which stores a numerical value. So the operator expression makes it apparent how this conversion is to take place, and easy to change (if at some point you wanted i >= 0 instead of i != 0 or other for that matter). However every company I've ever worked for has had very few programmers who fuss about how the expressions are written, just so long as they function correctly. — qeadz 1 min ago

The m means treat the input as a multiline string (so ^ will match the beginning of each line, not just the beginning of the whole thing.) The g means to match as many times as possible. Since you're new to regular expressions, I feel obligated to mention the most famous thing ever said about them: "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems." (See, for instance, programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/223634/…) — Sigfried 2 mins ago

Since this almost certainly about your GCSE programming problem, please do read Open letter to students with homework problems. — Martijn Pieters 29 secs ago

@ChaitanyaGadkari this question is a very poor fit for Programmers - it would be quickly voted down and closed over there, see meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/6483/… Recommended reading: What goes on Programmers.SE? A guide for Stack Overflow — gnat 2 mins ago

@chris , thank you for your answer. Strange thing, doesn't seem to be logical to only let users post 1 question. Specially for beginner programmers who keep to get shoo'd away from here... — Kahn Kah 1 min ago

@cosmo0 this very wrong, see meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/6483/… Recommended reading: What goes on Programmers.SE? A guide for Stack Overflow — gnat 35 secs ago

again, there is only one multiplication of 64-bit GPR operands in the ISA. Do you think that Intel and AMD do not make it as fast as their can knowing that it is the only one that programmers can call even if they only need the lowest 64 bits of the result? “64-bit ALU” and “128-bit ALU” are only oversimplifications. When you know that the only multiplication instruction is a 64x64->128, you make an ALU that supports 64x64->128 multiplication, period. — Pascal Cuoq 1 min ago

This probably belongs on programmers.stackexchange.com, not here. — rmaddy 47 secs ago

This question would be off-topic at Programmers.SE. — Snowman 1 min ago

@rmaddy this question is a poor fit for Programmers - it would be quickly voted down and closed over there, see meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/q/6961/31260 Recommended reading: What goes on Programmers.SE? A guide for Stack Overflow — gnat 2 mins ago

@JasonAizkalns Thanks. I have never posted anything there, but I did consider it in the present case. I was just thinking maybe there was a 1, 2 or 3 line solution in R that perhaps somebody might post quickly here. I do not know if there are many R programmers on the Code Review site. — Mark Miller 1 min ago

I see your point and have turned to Meta to get to a conclusion here. Still don't know where it's appropriate, sounds like Programmers should fit (gotta say that name is rather poorly chosen, though, seeing that SO is about "actual programming", implying Programmers is not). How do I migrate a question again? — scenia 1 min ago

I believe this is a valid question here, but would be a bit better-suited for Programmers. Design approaches are discussed there more often. The rule of thumb is that questions with not working code go to Stack Overflow, questions with working code needing improvement go to Code Review and programming questions without code go to Programmers. — Palec 57 secs ago

Also: Workflow: Using binary document formats in Git without locks (moving from subversion) — sleske 1 min ago