Programming Leftovers
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CRAN Task Views: The next generation
New arXiv working paper on the relaunch of the CRAN Task View Initiative providing better infrastructure and workflows for proposing and maintaining CRAN Task Views and fostering interactions with the R community.
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Demystifying Regular Expressions: A Programmer’s Guide for Beginners
Regular expressions, often abbreviated as regex, are powerful tools used in programming to match and manipulate text patterns.
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How to compute the distance between two Cartesian points in JavaScript
Given two Cartesian coordinates, here's how you compute the distance between them: [...]
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The Difference Between Git Reset –soft, –mixed, and –hard
Git is one of the most popular Version Control Systems (VCS) currently in use, and it provides a wide range of commands to manage and manipulate the history of your codebase. Understanding these commands and their subtleties can significantly improve your efficiency and the way you work with a codebase.
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Understanding the Staging Area in Git’s Workflow
Git, the popular distributed version control system, introduces a unique feature in its workflow known as the "staging area" or "index". This intermediate space acts as a preparatory area for commits, providing developers with fine-grained control over their version history.