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Jun 2 |
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Looking for meaningful, strong argument in favor of antivirus software on development machines Industrial espionage. |
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May 29 |
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Available options for classifying words in text? A useful term that often comes up in CS and NLP literature is "OOV" (Out Of Vocabulary). |
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May 14 |
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Single codebase for client and server with Node.js Compile to a war?? |
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May 14 |
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Single codebase for client and server with Node.js @Kevin: Umm no kidding. I never said otherwise. I merely made some observations on why some people think JavaScript is a good choice on the server side. |
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May 14 |
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Single codebase for client and server with Node.js Often, different implementations of the same thing behave slightly differently and unexpected problems can arise when the solution on the server does not quite match the solution in the browser. Having the same language on each means you can use the same libraries and get exactly the same results. Your point #2 is an assumption which doesn't hold up. Modern JavaScript such as V8 is faster than all other widely used scripting languages in most things. |
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Feb 3 |
suggested | suggested edit on What is the purpose of NaN boxing? |
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Feb 3 |
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How safe are hidden AJAX requests that fake performance? You obviously aren't acquainted with Australian Internet, not to mention poor, developing, and isolated places, even mobile on a moving vehicle... |
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Feb 2 |
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Rigorous Definition of Syntactic Sugar? terminology tag |
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Feb 2 |
suggested | suggested edit on Rigorous Definition of Syntactic Sugar? |
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Jan 17 |
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I've been told HTML is a markup language, C++ is a programming language, what could make that difference? tell->call; markup tag |
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Jan 17 |
suggested | suggested edit on I've been told HTML is a markup language, C++ is a programming language, what could make that difference? |
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Jan 9 |
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History of Associative Array? copyedit english usage and punctuation |
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Jan 9 |
suggested | suggested edit on History of Associative Array? |
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Jan 9 |
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Difference between hash and dictionary • Wikipedia had a "naming discussion" for the article on these datatypes back in 2010: • Wikipedia has another article discussing their implementations, differences, and terminology in many programming languages: Comparison of programming languages (mapping) |
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Jan 9 |
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Difference between hash and dictionary Related: Apparently such data structures were first implemented in SNOBOL, which called them tables: History of Associative Array? |
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Jan 9 |
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Difference between hash and dictionary See also Computer Science SE: Relation and difference between associative array and hashing table? |
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Jan 9 |
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Difference between hash and dictionary See also Stack Overflow: What is the difference between a Map and a Dictionary? |
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Jan 9 |
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Difference between hash and dictionary Well there's now some good stuff in these comments that would be better off in the answer, even better without the "tone" (-: I will have to look into whether a "national" institute gets to say what's "correct" or "official". Wikipedia also has "associate array" for the page title that includes all these terms, but of course they are not official either. Thanks for the links. I've learned something but I also think the answer would be better if neutral and stated what makes it "correct" or "official". Please also consider improving the Wikipedia article. |
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Jan 9 |
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Difference between hash and dictionary @KonradRudolph: "Poorly named", "correct", "too lazy", "misnomer" - none are objective. While I agree "hash" is imperfect, "dictionary" doesn't seem much better. A dictionary is a list of words with definitions etc. The most neutral, least ambiguous term among the many used for this data structure is "associative array". To me "hash" is a Perlism, "dictionary" is a Pythonism, "object" is a JavaScriptism, and "associative array" is nice and techinical, which could be one way in which to judge "correctness". Otherwise it's just down to each persons' preference and taste, ie "subjective". |
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Jan 9 |
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Differences between TypeScript and Dart format code snippets in blockquote |
