I am using python to work out how many children would be born in 5 years if a child was born every 7 seconds. The problem is on my last line. How do I get a variable to work when I'm printing text either side of it? ...

I have an object that looks like this: 8 Answers 8 ...

I wrote the two methods below to automatically select N distinct colors. It works by defining a piecewise linear function on the RGB cube. The benefit of this is you can also get a progressive scale if that's what you want, but when N gets large the colors can start to look similar. I can also imagi...

I started using PHP a couple of months ago. For the sake of creating a login system for my website, I read about cookies and sessions and their differences (cookies are stored in the user's browser and sessions on the server). At that time, I preferred cookies (and who does not like cookies?!) and j...

Why do I read in the answer to most questions here a lot about AsyncTask and Loaders but nothing about Services ? Are Services just not known very well or are they deprecated or have some bad attributes or something? What are the differences? ...

I'm writing an accessor method for a shared pointer in C++ that goes something like this: 4 Answers ...

How do I uninstall a Windows Service when there is no executable for it left on the system? I can not run installutil -u since there is not executable left on the system. I can still see an entry for the service in the Services console. ...

I have a page that lists all of the projects that has sortable headers and pagination. 7 Answers ...

Does jQuery or jQuery-UI have any functionality to disable text selection for given document elements? 13 Answers ...

I am developing a webapp using Spring MVC 3 and have the DispatcherServlet catching all requests to '/' like so (web.xml): ...