Unanswered Questions
3,405 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Is there a reasonable way for a TypeScript class to derive from a Dojo/Dijit class?
DefinitelyTyped has a Dojo solution which uses named modules and may work with legacy Dojo and explicit typing. But these declarations do not facilitate TypeScript import, since there are no anonymous ...
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Caching Strategy: WCF Buffer pooling and size
I am currently trying to understand the best configuration for caching. I am using Azure In-Role caching (currently Colocated, but Dedicated at a later point) in a Web Api 2 application in .NET 4.5.1....
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Facebook authentication with an Authoritative Server for a Flash Game
I'm working on a multiplatform game in Flash. This game utilizes Photon Server for authoritative physics and user statistics tracking. I'm looking to leverage Facebook authentication as an alternative ...
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Implement FBP / Dataflow programming in VBA?
Intrigued by Flow Based Programming a la J Paul Morrison. I wonder if one can implement FBP in Excel/VBA. I searched quite a bit for a Basic-Lang FBP implementation to no avail. I've looked at some ...
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Should I be concerned with dependencies?
Our organization uses IBM ClearCase to manage its versioning controls (for better or worse). We've been working on our application for several years now, and a large number of activities have started ...
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Is there any guideline from Unicode on how to deal with graphemes that have no base character?
A valid sequence of code-points can begin with one or more combining mark, which form a grapheme cluster that has no base glyph.
I'm unsure how that should be handled, if at all.
For example, consider ...
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Proxying REST Backends
I have several backend services (REST+SOAP) that have to be consumed by a SPA (Single Page Angular2 App).
As JWT (JSON Web Token) is not feasible for me for the moment, security is done using CAS ...
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XDIME for Mobile Applications
I'm involved in a project that requires to mobile-enable some previously developed Portlets. The Portlets are deployed in WebSphere Portal, and the container offers a technology called IBM Mobile ...
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Should an interface covariant on T ever implement an interface invariant on it?
I was reading through the Hacklang docs on Collections, and came across this curious definition [paraphrased slightly]:
interface KeyedIterable<Tk, Tv> ...
interface ConstVector<+Tv> ...
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Alternatives to Pessimistic Locking in Cluster Applications
I am researching alternatives to database-level pessimistic locking to achieve transaction isolation in a cluster of Java applications going against the same database. Synchronizing concurrent access ...
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Fortran-Python Interface
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This question is reposted from SO upon SO user's suggestion to put it here since there is no specific code in question.
This question is a subset of my larger theme of Fortran ...
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Getting AWS SNS Messages into Azure Service Bus
I have a similar question to one already asked about SQS to Azure Service Bus - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51650073/consume-aws-sqs-and-publish-to-azure-service-bus. I want to get messages ...
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Git Flow w/ VSTS Build Pipelines
I am trying to marry the git flow approach (w/ dev, test, uat, staging, prod env) & automated build and releases in Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). Slightly struggling due to VSTS needing a ...
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Rust and lifetime elision rules for structs?
In the Rust documentation, under the structs section, they give this example of how structs need lifetimes when they contain references:
struct Foo<'a> {
x: &'a i32,
}
because
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Why does GHC represent recursion in Haskell with recursive binders instead of a fixpoint operator?
GHC's Core data type represents recursion with recursive binders in the Let constructor; as I understand it, all let expressions in Haskell are effectively let rec expressions. Why does GHC use this ...
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