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... Actually, the four x86 instructions bt, bts, btr and btc can address single bits! – fredoverflow Jan 7 '11 at 16:07 ...

I see a lot of confusion between hashes and encryption algorithms and I would like to hear some more expert advice about: 1...

I'm having major trouble understanding recursion at school. Whenever the professor is talking about it, I seem to get it but as soon as I try it on my own it completely blows my brains. ...

... Eclipse is defaulting to Java 1.5 and you have classes implementing interface methods (which in Java 1.6 can be annotated with @Override, but in Java 1.5 can only be applied to methods overriding a superclass method). Go to your project/IDE preferences and s...

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I have an app that I developed with Xcode 3 and recently started editing with Xcode 4. In the target summary I have the iOS application target form with fields: identifier, version, build, devices, and deployment target. The version field is blank and the build field is 3.4.0 (which matches the vers...

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... If the quotes you want to strip are always going to be "first and last" as you said, then you could simply use: string = string[1:-1] share | improve this answer | ...

What do 'real', 'user' and 'sys' mean in the output of time? 6 Answers 6 ...