Try this. — kungphu 25 secs ago

I think the end of Eric's comment is a good point. That question may not have been testing your algorithm design skills, but a skill that is perhaps even more important to a software engineer: how do you explain to your boss that the requirements you've been given are impossible to satisfy? — Nate Eldredge 6 secs ago

what do I mean? you originally tagged this question with java and javascript - One is essentially a toy, designed for writing small pieces of code, and traditionally used and abused by inexperienced programmers. The other is a scripting language for web browsers. — Jaromanda X 18 secs ago

Please, post text as text, not as photographs of text. This is a website for programmers, not photographers. We want to copy&paste&run your code, copy&paste your inputs and read your outputs, not critique your use of color and perspective. — Jörg W Mittag 52 secs ago

Please, post text as text, not as photographs of text. This is a website for programmers, not photographers. We want to copy&paste&run your code, copy&paste your inputs, read your outputs, and copy&paste&google your error messages, not critique your use of color and perspective. Also, please make sure to post everything relevant to answering your question in your question, not on some third-party site somewhere else. — Jörg W Mittag 15 secs ago

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's a better fit on the Software Recommendations SE. — Some programmer dude 25 secs ago

@Tom I think the point was How could it be done, rather than the merits of right or wrong. True, it can be cumbersome, but in some cases, you may have a situation where say you have incoming json and variable format to handle. I come from pascal back ground where everything is pretty tight, and agree overloading can introduce problems to solve. but hey, as Programmers, is that not our job? To Create Problems to Solve and stand proud after solving? — Cyberience 17 secs ago

The fact that you think this is a sensible question to ask tells me this is way to complicated for you. It is even way to complicated for the best programmers. Software like Photoshop is developed by a whole team of experienced programmers that spend a long time (years) coding this sofwtare together. Doing such complicated thing as a single person, especially a beginner is near impossible. — OH GOD SPIDERS 38 secs ago

thanks for the update. fwiw, I've been having luck doing this for a static site generated with pelican in python using plotly, which--from a single python script--can output both [a] an image and [b] an html file with 100% contained js that "just works". I'll be adding info here softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/73836/… — Michael Altfield 37 secs ago

The node can just be connected to a node in the usual way. The pointer will still be inside the node, which can point to another node. Isn't it? I'm not challenging the available methods. I'm just trying to understand 'why not?' I'm also hoping that the first programmers did think of this way and must have chosen using pointers for some reason. Just trying to know what is the reason — Swaroop Joshi 52 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 and edit your post. — Patrick Artner 30 secs ago

I suggest moving this question to softwarerecs where it likely is on-topic. As this question is closed for 2 years now, some of the answers are outdated and newer ones are missing. — WolfgangS 44 secs ago

I suggest moving this question to softwarerecs where it likely is on-topic. As this question is closed for 4 years, the answers don't comprise a comprehensive overview of the available technology. — WolfgangS 30 secs ago

Isn't it better to attempt to find the cause of the leak in your code? It is after all a mistake. Shouldn't I want to avoid making the same mistake in the future? Is this really the answer that would be recommended by experienced programmers? — theyuv 49 secs ago

Style Note: Object methods often have verbs in their names because they do something. Typically, we choose the verb so that they make sense to the caller of the method. For example, if some class C has a method named getFoobar(...), most programmers will understand that you call it to get the "foobar" from the C object. Your example does just the opposite: Your "getTwoPoints" method does just the opposite. Most programmers would call that method "setTwoPoints(...)" because the caller calls it to set the object's p1 and p2 member variables. — Solomon Slow 56 secs ago

I really don't understand the "close cause out of scope" votes...does this really seem like an out of software engineering scope question, whilst there are numerous irrelevant questions such as "why this thing fails on my mac" and "how to I spin up a VM on digital ocean?"...SO needs to take down/close votes more seriously; one can argue that the question is dumb or the author has not conducted extended investigation before asking, but HOW ON EARTH this question is out of scope? — pkaramol 42 secs ago

@PNX: - no - that's just for programmers. This question is for non-programmers. — Mick 13 secs ago

The fact that programmers use computers doesn't turn every computer-related question into a programming problem. This question is off-topic. — IInspectable 16 secs ago

Hi @FrancescoCoppola This question is generic and lacks of practical examples. It might be more pertinent in stackexanchge softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic . I suggest you have a look at the guidelines to write a question on stackoverflow. — Duccio A 32 secs ago

The 'terminal' window isn't an interactive interface for you to use along side your running your python script, it is dedicated to it. You could interact with it once your script has completed, as long as you've invoked the script in such a way as the environment and console instance remains open upon the scripts completion. This site is not here to provide general programming advice, it is to assist other programmers with a solution to a specific replicable issue with their own code. — Compo 39 secs ago

"The application does not handle this correctly and crashes." Fix that in any case. Also, configure the router to have a longer timeout. You can also set up a keepalive. "Unfortunately, I do not have access to the application source code and cannot do this." I do not know how programmers can help you fix an application with no access to the application. — Ron Maupin 40 secs ago

Not that I know of. Try your chance at Software Recommendations — oguz ismail 48 secs ago

This should be asked on codereview.stackexchange.com or softwareengineering.stackexchange.com. — VGR 55 secs ago

@DonPoneyBarissione Don't call yourself like this. Advanced programmers sometimes do this. Things happen. — Mehdi Mostafavi 17 secs ago

Forgot Password code: UPDATE users SET pass = '{$new_pass}' WHERE account_id = '{$account_id}' LIMIT 1. If your software is Software as a Service (SaaS), so multiple organizations use your software, & account_id-organization_id fields together are a unique id, & the software engineer forgets to add AND organization_id = '{$organization_id}' to the query, & the code passes QA when testing the Forgot Password functionality in Test environment, & code is then pushed to production, then LIMIT 1 can limit the damage done when two organizations' user's share the same account_id. — Blue Water 11 secs ago

Welcome to StackOverflow. This is a Q&A site for programmers and "How do I make X app?" is generally discouraged. Each of the tags has a wiki which may lead to forums more appropriate for requirements, architecture, and resources discussion. If your technical individuals have specific software/programming questions with error messages & code then StackOverflow is the correct place. — Morrison Chang 32 secs ago

A more general answer, given as programmers, we will see lots of this type of thing during our careers. See What is a stack trace, and how can I use it to debug my application errors? & What is a Null Pointer Exception, and how do I fix it? — Andrew Thompson 31 secs ago

@Killakeys: Glad you figured it out. Don't be too hard on yourself; it can be difficult to see the problem. And there is an argument to be made that if you could not understand the problem from the error message then the fault is with the error message; error messages tend to be designed by expert programmers who phrase the error in terms of the specification, rather than phrasing them in the way that teaches the developer how to understand the problem. — Eric Lippert 25 secs ago

@Killakeys: I am about to embark upon designing the error reporting system for a novel DSL and this is on my mind a lot. The developers who will be using the DSL are data scientists first and programmers second, which presents a great many challenges in designing error messages that genuinely help. — Eric Lippert 56 secs ago

First of all, this is not a tutorial site, neither is it a free code/script writing service, it is a question and answer site for programmers, so please take the tour, visit the help center and learn How to Ask here! Moreover, Windows batch files cannot natively interact with Word files, so you are aiming for the wrong tool to accomplish your task; so better use word-vba... — aschipfl just now