Unanswered Questions
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Why did the Haskell committee choose monads to represent IO?
The Clean language uses uniqueness types to handle IO in a purely functional setting. Why did the Haskell committee go with monads instead? Were there other proposals for handling state that the ...
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UI patterns in functional languages
I would like to start fiddling with ClojureScript, but I am puzzled about some points. My problem is what is a good way to deal with state changes coming from user interaction, when you trying to work ...
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Multiple Zend application code organisation
For the past year I have been working on a series of applications all based on the Zend framework and centered on a complex business logic that all applications must have access to even if they don't ...
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Question on design of current pagination implementations
I have checked pagination implementations on asp.net mvc specifically and i really feel that there is something less efficient in implementations.
First of all all implementations use pagination ...
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Pseudocode for Brodal queue
I'm trying to find more resources regarding Brodal heap. All I found is a haskell implementation of Brodal-Okasaki heap, but I think that they are skew heaps, is this correct? Furthermore, I'm ...
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MPL 1.1 and APL 2.0 License compatibility
I am working a project that is licensed under the MPL 1.1 and would like to incorporate some code that is licensed under the APL 2.0.
I know in 2010 Mozilla announced they were updating the MPL to ...
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websites that show real world scenarios for OOP beginners so that they can implement them
Since programmers learn more by implementing the real world scenarios rather then by gaining theoretical knowledge and concepts about programming, I wanted to know that is there any website that tells ...
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Different callbacks for error or error as first argument?
We (and the JS SO chat room) had a talk with @rlemon some days ago about his Little-XHR library about error handling.
Basically, we wanted to decide which error handling pattern should be used:
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Displaying Datamatrix in application error screen
Quite often we will get a report from a user in the field saying there was an error in our application. Frequently this leads to the typical round of "What was the error?" "I don't know, it was just ...
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What are some of the major differences in process management between CGI and newer (better) technologies?
I know CGI spawns a new process for every HTTP request that it serves, while servlets use one Java process to serve many requests. What do other technologies (rails, WSGI/django, mod_php, asp.net ...
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Requirement, architecture data capture tool
Are there any tools available for the following use case:
I am planning to write a complex application and now I just know about the basic functional requirments. I am refining the functionality with ...
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Advice on which technologies to use for a client-server desktop application
I am writing a desktop application in Java which will allow clients to authenticate to a server with their credentials, and afterwards view and manipulate some data (orders, invoices, employees etc.) ...
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How to implement smart card authentication with a .NET Fat client?
I know very little about smart card authentication in general so please point out or correct me if anything below doesn't make sense.
Lets say i have:
A Certificate Authority "X"-s smart card ...
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How do I Integrate Production Database Hot Fixes into Shared Database Development model?
We are using SQL Source Control 3, SQL Compare, SQL Data Compare from RedGate, Mercurial repositories, TeamCity and a set of 4 environments including production.
I am working on getting us to a ...
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Is defining every method/state per object in a series of UML diagrams representative of MDA in general?
I am currently working on a project where we use a framework that combines code generation and ORM together with UML to develop software. Methods are added to UML classes and are generated into ...
