Questions tagged [information]
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Maintaining modularity while keeping (secret) configuration separate from application code
This is more a curiosity/query-for-information than anything; apologies if it's thus a little malformed:
This is relevant to a useful API-querying library that can be shared across multiple teams ...
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Short and compact barcode
I am writing a c# program where I need to print a lot of small barcodes in a 100x100 grid on a piece of paper. I then scan/photograph the paper and read the barcodes again. Each barcode only need to ...
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Information hoarding anti pattern [closed]
In The Phoenix Project the author describes an interesting antipattern: Brent is a super-important dev-ops engineer that personally knows the details of every new and old implementation and setup, but ...
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Can encapsulation/information hiding cause problems in error identifying/locating?
I understand the principles behind opaque data types, encapsulation, information hiding, etc. in theory: preventing alteration to parts of a program can prevent people from accidentally messing it up, ...
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What is the term for different types that contain the same information?
What is the correct term(s) for different types that contain exactly the same information? For example (F#):
type Type1 = (int * string)
type Type2 = (string * int)
When describing that these types ...
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What are the some common practices for storing and accessing data for analytics?
If you need to access application information from a database for analytics, is it better to copy the information first and analyse the copy or is it okay to analyse the data retrieved fresh from the ...
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Why so many good open source programs have websites that are very poorly managed? [closed]
I was reading about gzip program and I found the official website of the gzip software.
First of all the site looks very bad, it is very hard to find useful information on it and it was not updated ...
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User, user Role and user Info, data base design problem
I am creating an application that will manage job interviews and help the employers to choose the job seekers based on a ranking system that's based on some user info.
I've created a database that has ...
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Design for autocompleting words in search engine?
I'm trying to implement an autocomplete feature for a search engine. I have a database of words(stemmed) that occur in the documents that I have for users to search.
What I am thinking of doing is:
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Structuring data to represent a tree with squirrels
What I want to represent
Let's assume I have several schemas of the following kind:
It is a tree on which positions of squirrels are represented by a blue dot. The number of bifurcations differ from ...
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Why would HTML and CSS be required for .NET development? [closed]
On a job application, part of the job description is "...needs to know HTML and CSS as some .NET is required...". What does this mean?
I thought HTML is a programming language, CSS is a way to ...
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Approach to use for user email address change in application?
As the title says, if the user wants change their email address in the application, in terms of programming, what approach (process) to use? Where do you store the new email address until the user ...
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What are the advantages of expressing information in the simplest possible format?
I want to apologize in advance if my headline is not specific enough, but I think this is a general question, although I have a very concrete example:
In my team we maintain a test specification ...
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I want to create an open data format... but I don't really know what that is
I have found a need for a standardization for storage and recording of data relating to diabetes information (I don't think there's any, but I may have missed it).
To that end I made this github ...
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How related is coding/information theory to computer networking?
I am taking a networking class(data communication) this coming semester. In many courses in my computer engineering degree, the books lack mathematical content. I am not a math wizard, but I think ...
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