I have experimented with Lisp (actually Scheme) and found it to be a very beautiful language that I am interested in learning more about. However, it appears that Lisp is never used in serious projects, and I haven't seen it listed as a desired skill on any job posting. I am interested in hearing ...

The primitive types (number, string, etc.) are passed by value, but objects are unknown, because they can be both passed-by-value (in case we consider that a variable holding an object is in fact a reference to the object) and passed-by-reference (when we consider that the variable to the object hol...

Git Extensions: Everything was working fine until yesterday. 14 Answers 14 ...

Is slug a completely arbitrary word? Or does it stand for something? I used the word in a conversation with someone and when they asked me why it's called that I realized I didn't know. ...

... Commons Lang has it. Or you could throw an UnsupportedOperationException. share | improve this answer | follow ...

We have a junior programmer that simply doesn't write enough tests. I have to nag him every two hours, "have you written tests?" We've tried: ...

...g an API client that is completely asynchrounous, that is, each operation either returns Task or Task<T> , e.g: 6 ...

I had some uncommitted changes in my development branch and I stashed them using git stash , but there were some changes which were very important among those stashed ones. Is there any way to get back those changes? ...

...ed behavior. Stroustrup makes the point that "the vector destructor explicitly invokes the destructor for every element. This implies that if an element destructor throws, the vector destruction fails... There is really no good way to protect against exceptions thrown from destructors, so the libra...

... ImageView s for my displays, but at some point I don't have values to put it. 17 Answers ...