As the title says, how can I find the current operating system in python? 5 Answers 5 ...

I've read conflicting information regarding Internet Explorer's silly CSS limits. I am (think I am) understanding that you can only have 31 <style> and <link> tags (combined), and that each sheet can have up to 31 @import -s (so 31 <link> -s, each to 31 @import -s is fine, a...

I'm looking to add a crontab entry to execute a script every 30 minutes, on the hour and 30 minutes past the hour or something close. I have the following, but it doesn't seem to run on 0. ...

How can I determine the list of files in a directory from inside my C or C++ code? 26 Answers ...

I'm using GROUP_CONCAT() in a MySQL query to convert multiple rows into a single string. However, the maximum length of the result of this function is 1024 characters. ...

The below code works on Visual Studio 2008 with and without optimization. But it only works on g++ without optimization (O0). ...

At work it seems like no week ever passes without some encoding-related conniption, calamity, or catastrophe. The problem usually derives from programmers who think they can reliably process a “text” file without specifying the encoding. But you can't. ...

I'm working on a game which involves vehicles at some point. I have a MySQL table named "vehicles" containing the data about the vehicles, including the column "plate" which stores the License Plates for the vehicles. ...

I have a large data table. There are 10 million records in this table. 12 Answers 12 ...

This question arose from comments about different kinds of progress in computing over the last 50 years or so. 129 Answer...