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Our company creates graphs to visualize data. We have many small fish customers, but we have one whale who uses our product that is 90% of company revenue. (WTF number 1.)

So if he is not happy, it's all-hands-on deck-mode.

He complained that our APIs and charts are loading slowly for him. For 3 weeks, we've tried ...


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A few years back, C# added the concept of "primary constructors". Instead of declaring the storage for class members and then initializing them in the constructor, you can annotate the class itself with the required fields, and C# automatically generates a constructor for you. It's all very TypeScript and very Microsoft, and certainly cuts down on some boilerplate.


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We rip on PHP a lot, but I am willing to admit that the language and ecosystem have evolved a lot. What started as an ugly templating language is now just an ugly regular language.

But what happens when you still really want to do things with templates? Allison has inherited a Python-based, WSGI application which rejects any sort of formal routing or b...


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"RFC 1738 (and 3986) disagree" and so does Daniel D. "Reddit API has some weird app creation going on with lots of recently migrated and undocumented stuff. But having redirect URL set to localhost (or 127.0.0.1) usually works. Well, if you don't disagree with Sir Tim Berners-Lee about what URL is. Which Reddit does. hostnumber = digits "." digits "." digits ...


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Henrik H (previously) sends us a simple representative C# line:

static void GenerateCommercilaInvoice()

This is a static method which takes no parameters and returns nothing. Henrik didn't share the implementation, but this static function likely doe...


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