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I noticed a huge portion of software apps only support Windows and not Mac or Linux. I understand that there might be an API that they're using that only exists on a certain system. In this case, why ...
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i am a lawyer and currently writing an essay about data access in ioT environments. I often stumble over the distinction between read access and write access. Could someone provide me with an example, ...
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I am writing a simple compiler. I have written lexer and parser and it now generates assembly code from given code. Now I need to write an assembler which generates machine code. But the problem is ...
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I'm working on a small (and very tame) FOSS utility; and I want to test it to make sure that it builds on Mac OSes. But - I don't have a Mac OS I could use for that. I have access to Linux and to ...
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I'm here today, because I'd like to ask you a question about porting application built with Qt5 to linux. I have been asked to port this application to linux, I don't yet have the source code, but I ...
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I have been having a huge and heated argument with someone on a slack group - the debate is this : My argument Portable code is that which compiles with various compilers and runs exactly the same on ...
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I need a advice on creating an architecture where I want API layer in between UI layer and business layer. UI layer should only consume REST services for displaying data. Reason for doing this is ...
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My php framework uses DIRECORY_SEPARATOR constant instead of /. Can there be any other options for a directory separator?
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