.... In my experience, running stuff developed in MATLAB doesn't ever work in one go, except for the really simple, really short stuff -- For any sizable function, I always have to translate a lot of stuff before it works in Octave, if not re-write it from scratch. How this is better, I really don't se...

...e case) to treat all kinds of strings (and maybe other scalar types, i.e., ones you can't loop on) one way, all containers (lists, sets, dicts, ...) in another way, and basestring plus isinstance helps you do that—the overall structure of this idiom is something like: if isinstance(x, basestring)...

Does anyone know how to implement a sliding menu like some of the top apps of today? 5 Answers ...

Apple's iPad Mini is a smaller clone of the iPad 2 in more ways than we'd want. In JavaScript, the window.navigator object exposes the same values for the Mini and iPad 2. My tests so far to detect the difference have not lead to success. ...

...r instance every time. It's expensive to create and thread-safe, so create one and cache it somewhere. – glade Feb 26 '17 at 23:06 1 ...

... @Sky: From the generated assembly code one can see that a library function func ~= (Range<A>, A) -> Bool is called. I would assume that this function works with O(1). – Martin R Jul 22 '14 at 17:43 ...

... Thanks @mattblang, it looks nice. One question: is the request callback guaranteed to be called even on the retry? – Luca Fagioli Sep 2 '15 at 15:20 ...

...stream it out; for big files, this is a hog. A much better solution is the one below that doesn't have to load the file into memory first. – HBlackorby May 6 '15 at 20:42 13 ...

...olkit use the *nix syntax instead; if this line doesn't work, try the *nix one instead. – Andy Jones Dec 5 '13 at 19:21 9 ...

... This is a much better answer than the accepted one! – trusktr Jun 28 '17 at 1:23 3 ...