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Why is the HTML SCRIPT tag not subject to the same origin policy

I am asking this questions because we will develop an application that is supposed to share cross origin data via …

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Are docstrings for internal functions (python) necessary?

In python we designate internal function/ private methonds with an underscore at the beginning. Should these functions be documented with …

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Is right shift undefined behavior if the count is larger than the width of the type?

I just checked the C++ standard. It seems the following code should NOT be undefined behavior: unsigned int val = 0x0…

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Why doesn't C++ support dynamic arrays on the stack?

In C99 this was legal: void f(size_t sz) { char arr[sz]; // ... } However, this - dynamically sized stack arrays …

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Source of ISO data in xml format?

I was just wondering if anyone knew of a source of standard ISO data in xml format, such as ISO 3166 (…

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Take the address of a one-past-the-end array element via subscript: legal by the C++ Standard or not?

I have seen it asserted several times now that the following code is not allowed by the C++ Standard: int …

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Standards on behaviour of nested labels

I was wondering what would happen if I'd nest 2 <label> tags, and it turns out, in all the …

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How to compute standard error for predicted data in R using predict

Here is my data: a <- c(60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 105) b <- c(26, 24.7, 20, 16.1, 12.6, 10.6, 9.2, 7.6, 6.9, 6.9) a_b <- cbind(a,b) plot(…

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why is std::lock_guard not movable?

Why is std::lock_guard not movable, it would make code so much nicer: auto locked = lock_guard(mutex); instead …

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Where can I get/read SQL standard SQL:2011?

I'm looking for specification of SQL:2011 (ISO/IEC 9075:2011). Where can I find it? (I could find only the older one: …

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