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Human readable alternative for UUIDs

I am working on a system that makes heavy use of pseudonyms to make privacy-critical data available to researchers. These …

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What is POSIX, any other interface standards which can replace it?

I was confused by the numerous standards and interfaces for C and C++ programming. There's ANSI C, ISO C, GLIBC, …

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What can you do in C without "std" includes? Are they part of "C," or just libraries?

I apologize if this is a subjective or repeated question. It's sort of awkward to search for, so I wasn't …

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Why Doesn't jQuery use JSDoc?

Or do they and it's just not in the source? I'd really like to get something that will stop js-doc-toolkit …

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Select 1000 distinct names from 100 million records via standard sql

I have a table tb_FirstName with one field FirstName. The table has 100 million non null records with lots of …

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Why a virtual call to a pure virtual function from a constructor is UB and a call to a non-pure virtual function is allowed by the Standard?

From 10.4 Abstract Classes parag. 6 in the Standard : "Member functions can be called from a constructor (or destructor) of an abstract …

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Why is there a networking library proposal for C++14/17?

Even though TCP/UDP/IP are commonly used protocols, I do not understand why they want it to be part …

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What was Wrong with void main()?

Why has setting the entry point's return type to void in C++ always been discouraged, and was later removed by …

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Strict Standards: Only variables should be passed by reference - php error

$file_name = $_FILES['profile_image']['name']; $file_ext = end(explode('.', $file_name)); //line 10 $file_ext = strtolower($file_ext); $…

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Multiple assignment in javascript? What does [a,b,c] = [1, 2, 3]; mean?

For a project a developer sent us a .js file with code similar to this: var myList = [1,2,3]; var a,b,…

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