....8.7 The examples come from the help page to fread, with the timings on my windows XP Core 2 duo E8400. library(data.table) # Demo speedup n=1e6 DT = data.table( a=sample(1:1000,n,replace=TRUE), b=sample(1:1000,n,replace=TRUE), c=rnorm(n), d=sample(...

...Browse" button, where you can play with other browsers. For me, working on Windows, this means I can view my work in FireFox, and use FireBug to help tweak and make things better. IE6. It's amazing how different IE 6 will render things. I've taken the approach of applying a style to the outermost "v...

...ort for "Yet Another Ruby VM"). YARV implements Ruby Threads as POSIX or Windows NT Threads, however, it uses a Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) to ensure that only one Ruby Thread can actually be scheduled at any one time. Like MRI, C Threads can actually run parallel to Ruby Threads. In the fut...

...m being built in the IDE, if feasible). Consider nAnt for .NET projects on Windows, or something similar based on your OS, target platform, etc. Make every project build script reference its external (3rd-party) dependencies from a single local shared "library" directory, with every such binary FULL...

... Love this, but I ran into a problem: on Windows 7/.NET 4.5 this line TDerived instance = (TDerived)field.GetValue(null); results in instance being null. It seems that the Mono runtime must have a different order of type initialization than the .NET one that allows...

Amazon's EC2 service offers a variety of Linux and Windows OS choices, but I haven't found a service offering a similar "rent by the hour" service for a remote Mac OS X virtual machine. Does such a service exist? (iCloud looks to be just a data storage service, rather than a service allowing remot...

...ields "null" (not to be confused with toString, which would yield "[object Window]"!). So, let's consider parseInt("null", 24). Of course, this isn't a base-24 numeric string in entirety, but "n" is: it's decimal 23. Now, parsing stops after the decimal 23 is pulled out, because "u" isn't found ...

...'s going to be. Run through the Vim tutor once (vimtutor at a shell, or in Windows run it from the Vim folder in the Start Menu), and you'll already be well on your way to competence, and it's all downhill from there. I was up to the level where I could use Vim at work without taking any noticeable ...

...the rest of Python's code is C89, and if you want your extension to run on Windows, it's usually compiled with MVSC, which is limited to C89). I don't know that it's strictly necessary though. – detly Jul 9 '13 at 7:59 ...

...isible area). On the other hand, it is guaranteed to be within the current window, which is not the case for an actual tooltip. In addition, the pseudo-tooltip is positioned relative to the element that has the pseudo-tooltip rather than relative to where the mouse is on that element. You may want ...