... Pidfile contains pid of a process. It is a convention allowing long running processes to be more self-aware. Server process can inspect it to stop itself, or have heuristic that its other instance is already running. Pidfiles can also be used to conventiently kill risk manually,...

...s arguably the most nuanced and difficult. How should it be done? What pitfalls need to be avoided? The copy-and-swap idiom is the solution, and elegantly assists the assignment operator in achieving two things: avoiding code duplication, and providing a strong exception guarantee. How does it wor...

... If you want to remove the spacing globally for every list in your document just put \setlist[itemize]{noitemsep} in your preamble. – Fabian Winkler Mar 13 '13 at 15:52 ...

... structs and fields are fine for quick and dirty solutions like this. For all but the simplest cases though, you'd do better to define a named struct just like you did. share | improve this answer ...

After finishing my C++ class it seemed to me the structs/classes are virtually identical except with a few minor differences. ...

...ng the pure regular expression. Perhaps I can but I would have to rely on callback functions. – Y. Yoshii May 16 '18 at 7:17 ...

... I recommend not to choose the root folder with all the irrelevant sub-folders which are not subject to be modified in the branch. Later it will be easier to merge the (smaller) branch back to trunk. – J Pollack Mar 5 '15 at 9:24 ...

...ike Objective-C, Swift has no preprocessor, so is there still a way to manually deprecate members of a class? 4 Answers ...

... This method will safely escape all characters with special meaning: /#{Regexp.quote(your_string)}/ For example, . will be escaped, since it's otherwise interpreted as 'any character'. Remember to use a single-quoted string unless you want regular strin...

... helps when firewall blocks git protocol! :) – Wojtek Turowicz Jun 14 '13 at 15:36 ...