"_ opinions are exactly what I'm looking for..._" Maybe you'd want to post this question on softwareengineering.stackexchange.com or codereview.stackexchange.com — felipsmartins 17 secs ago

Wrong site for this sort of question. Try Quora or Reddit. This site is for specific questions related to programming or use of programmers tools. We don't offer advice or suggestions, and we're not a discussion group. You'll find your experiences here will be much better if you spend some time taking the tour and reading the help center pages to learn how the site works before you begin posting. — Ken White 12 secs ago

Welcome to Stack Overflow. SO is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. The goal is that you add some code of your own to your question to show at least the research effort you made to solve this yourself. — Cyrus 52 secs ago

A good idea is to copy the actual error you are getting along with the stack trace. This information might seem random but to experienced programmers, it can provided a lot of insight. — Tim 12 secs ago

Really though, Windows is an extremely and pathetically hostile environment to programmers. Everything sucks programming in it. I really wonder why you do that to yourself, just use a UNIX variant (such as Linux) instead. — fuz 8 secs ago

"But shortest is often not best, which this clearly illustrates." It might be clear for some why not to use such construction but it won't be for most new Java programmers. — Amongalen 19 secs ago

Yes it will leave the '\n' after the final input and that can be a problem for you next input. That is why you are encouraged to use fgets (str, sizeof str, stdin) to read line-oriented input and then trim the included '\n' from the end of str with str[strcspn(str, "\n")] = 0; New C programmers are plagued by the pitfalls of scanf... — David C. Rankin 13 secs ago

Questions that ask "where do I start" are typically too broad and are not a good fit for this site. People have their own method for approaching the problem and because of this there cannot be a correct answer. Give a good read over Where to Start, then address your post. — Waqar UlHaq 34 secs ago

Frankly, the argument that the Repository pattern is silly. Yes, the DbSet object is a repository...however...wrapping it has many advantages...plus...many folks do it wrong....just use a generic class to do so...and let EF change-tracking manage your transaction for you. - Cheers! softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/313188/… — Prisoner ZERO 47 secs ago

Unity is incredibly confusing, @GhostCoder256 - particulartly to folks who are already programmers. Unity IS NOT an object oriented system. It's just like .. photoshop. Like, there's nothing "object oriented" about Photoshop. You just plop down things on the canvas. its true that with unity, the language you use to create "monovehaviors" happens to be an OO language. But it needn't be, you could use mahcine code. and unity itself has nothing to do with "object oriented". it's literally just a canvas that holds things. cheers! — Fattie 48 secs ago

And: softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/16528/… — Karl Morrison 35 secs ago

The usage differs in c++ and c, In C it is common to declare functions which do not take a parameter explicitly specifying [return type] function_name(void), because in C, [return type] function_name() means 'the function takes an unspecified number of parameters, and hence could be called without error providing arguments, which might not be intended. more details here — mutableVoid 17 secs ago

Such research questions are off-topic for Stack Overflow. The programmers on SO should not be misused as human based search engine. Every programmer should have the skill to search on SO or in world wide web. See for example an SO search with [batch-file] file older than and [batch-file] get weekday date. But I am 100% sure you make the file deletion task more complicated than necessary. — Mofi 14 secs ago

@geocodezip can you take a look at the details that i listed in another question? softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/405684/… — and1 45 secs ago

Due to youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY and infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/… I think it'd be a good idea to encourage best practice here and use the DateTime library, and/or other platform classes for time processing, and not manual translation. — Kevin Anderson 54 secs ago

Why is "Is it possible to..." a poorly worded question? — azurefrog 1 min ago

@walnut: Unfortunately, the Standard makes no attempt to indicate what should be expected in scenarios where every byte of the structure is occupied by types that have no trap representations (or, for that matter, objects and arrays of type unsigned char). There are situations where mandating that such objects behave as Unspecified Value could needlessly impede optimizations, but requiring that programmers explicitly initialize values would be even more expensive. — supercat 14 secs ago

No, a IEEE-754 floating-point datum on a computer system is not an approximation. As I stated, the IEEE-754 standard specifies that, if it is not a NaN, it represents one number, exactly (IEEE 754-2008 clauses 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5). Some programmers use floating-point features as if the numbers were approximate, but this is generally due to ignorance of the specification and causes problems. It would be infeasible for an IEEE-754 datum to represent some approximation, as then the results of further operations could not have good definitions, due to smearing of the range. — Eric Postpischil 22 secs ago

One of the things that may lead some programmers to think floating-point numbers are approximations is they enter a decimal numeral, say 3.4, in their source code or input, and the result of converting it to floating-point is 3.399999999999999911182158029987476766109466552734375. Most are not actually aware of that at first, because default formatting may actually show 3.4. And eventually they become aware the number is not quite 3.4, because it acts somewhat like 3.4 but idiosyncrasies become visible from time to time. And they just go with it; the software shows them 3.4, so it is sort of… — Eric Postpischil 12 secs ago

Sounds like zombie programmers. Do you use ADO straight or EF? Would be interesting to see any of your pieces of code, how it is done. As is, your question is not answerable. — T.S. 19 secs ago

Note that softwarerecs.stackexchange.com might be able to better-answer this question, if you're looking for libraries that can help with this — Green Cloak Guy 57 secs ago

I tried this out and it does return the same result as mine. Thank you! Indexing the database is something that would have to be done during downtime, so it is really partially out of my control but I did make it known that it needs to be done. So this gives what I need because the ix.ID = the i.ID in the join? Basically when the i.ID is scanned, the query follows the logic and actually looks at the ix.IDs instead? I want to make sure I really understand why it works. I'm still only beginning to really dig into SQL, and I really appreciate the advice of more experienced programmers. — Smartish 31 secs ago

@walnut: They say they didn't find any impediment to optimization, but it doesn't look like they examined many platforms. IMHO, the proper remedy should be for the Committee to seek out places where code relies upon things not mandated by the Standard, recognize them as optional features, provide ways ways for programmers to explicitly demand such semantics when needed, and then deprecate reliance upon the behaviors without explicit demands for them. — supercat 32 secs ago