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Definition of “downstream” and “upstream”

I’ve started playing with Git and have come across the terms “upstream” and “downstream”. I’ve seen these before but never understood them fully. ...

April 16, 2022
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What is the meaning of “POSIX”?

What is POSIX? I have read the Wikipedia article and I read it every time I encounter the term. The fact is that ...

April 15, 2022
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What is (functional) reactive programming?

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April 14, 2022
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What do “branch”, “tag” and “trunk” mean in Subversion repositories?

I’ve seen these words a lot around Subversion (and I guess general repository) discussions. I have been using SVN for my projects for ...

April 14, 2022
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What is a race condition?

When writing multithreaded applications, one of the most common problems experienced is race conditions. My questions to the community are: What is the ...

April 14, 2022
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What is a monad?

Having briefly looked at Haskell recently, what would be a brief, succinct, practical explanation as to what a monad essentially is? I have ...

April 11, 2022
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What’s the difference between a proxy server and a reverse proxy server? [closed]

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April 10, 2022
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What’s the difference between a method and a function?

Can someone provide a simple explanation of methods vs. functions in OOP context? 3 39

April 10, 2022
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What are MVP and MVC and what is the difference?

Want to improve this post? Provide detailed answers to this question, including citations and an explanation of why your answer is correct. without ...

April 10, 2022
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What is JSONP, and why was it created?

I understand JSON, but not JSONP. Wikipedia’s document on JSON is (was) the top search result for JSONP. It says this: JSONP or ...

April 10, 2022
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