Occasionally there are questions asked that seek to explain some soundbite of thing someone said or wrote.
These questions take a few sentences from a larger piece and ask what it means, or disprove it, or take two of them and ask which is right.
It is practically impossible to teach go...
Hang with me for a moment, let's go through a short checklist:
When is it okay to post link-only-answers? Never.
When is it okay to promote my own blog/website? Never.
When is it okay to self-answer a question? Always.
When is it okay to answer questions with content from my blog? Always.
So......
This claim by Aleks Bromfield states:
Almost every language with a static type system also has a dynamic type system. Aside from C, I can't think of an exception
Is this a valid claim? I understand that with Reflection or Loading classes at runtime Java gets a bit like this - but can this i...
I will try to remember what I said, but none of the answers so far are correct (every one of them was done in the 60s and 70s before the commercialization of PCs in the 80s).
However, we could start all over and try to think of new inventions in computing since the 1980s.
Yes, I borrowed the title form a famous joelonsoftware post for my question because I didn't exactly know how to ask this.
I'm a professional programmer for a few years now and although I followed informatics courses in school there was a lot of stuff missing from the curriculum, as I now know b...
When asking a yes/no question there are one of two possibilities:
You really want a yes/no answer. If this is the case, and you don't need anything else to answer your question then it means the answers will be inherently low quality. An answer that only says "Yes" or "No" (in addition to not...
I have an excellent book for learning OOP using Java but my goal is to learn C#. How can I use that book to learn C# instead of Java? How can I know the equivalent of Java code in C#?
Is there a website for example that helps me in this?
If you are dyslexic, maybe you should start by leaning a statically typed language such as C, C++, C#, or Java.
Since you are forced to declare variables in these languages and there is type checking, the compiler and IDE will throw errors if by mistake you do something like:
var aux; //declarin...
The new guidance is here:
Changes to "close as duplicate" (part deux)
Among other things, it describes the new close banner:
This question already has an answer here:
Link to the Duplicate Question
... which seems to suggest that, if some other question in the system answers the OP's qu...
I am building a small application and I am trying to understand the best way to approach the design. I am looking for some guidance/advice how best to approach the following issue.
What I have is that I receive a set of data, real time. I then analyze the data for patterns. The patterns are cla...
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