I have been reflecting lately on the dogma that circulates in the world of software development. Ranging from "goto is evil" to "singleton is an anti-pattern" or "reflection is slow".
No concept is harmful in itself. Asserting one of the aforementioned is harmful is similar to saying that "a ha...
I have tried to SSH into my AWS ubuntu server and copy the directory to my local machine. Throughout the process I experience different file permission errors (noted below).
Is there one specific file permission needed for the .pem file that allows me to SSH and SCP?
Or do I need to change th...
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<script>
function countWords(){
s = document.getElementById("inputString").value;
var inputstring=s;
$wordlist=Array("or","as","to","here");
for ($word in $wordlist) {
s = '/\b' +s.replace($wordlist, '')+'\b/'; }
s = s.replace($wordlist,'', s);
$wor...
A compelling principle behind error handling is to handle the error at the layer best suited to deal with the error. Handling an error can involve retrying the operation, signaling the user, or just plain rolling over and dying.
Frequently, this means that error handling is taken care of fairly...
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