Here's the issue... if I use, say a directory catalog in MEF and have some.dll and copy of some.dll, i will get double the exports, even though they are defining the same type, is there a way to resolve this? EDIT: the problem isn't with this particular issue, this is just an abstract example of a real issue, for instance, if i have an ...
I need to maintain & improve an existing website and I am drowning in the redundancy I have discovered in its CSS stylesheet. Given the existing redundancy and non-methodlogical ordering of elements, it's hard to track and predict how a minor change will propagate through the system, or where to apply a change to achieve a certain effect...
I have 7 MySQL tables that contain partly overlapping and redundant data in approximately 17000 rows. All tables contain names and addresses of schools. Sometimes the same school is duplicated in a table with a slightly different name, and sometimes the same school appears in multiple tables, again, with small differences in its name or ...
A mission-critical production system has n stages that have to be perfomed sequentially; stage i is performed by machine M_i. Each machine M_i has a probability f_i of failing and a probability 1 - f_i of functioning reliably (and the failures are independent). Therefore, if we implement each stage with a single machine, the probability ...