...selves are not sorted. Why is this?? Lets read the docs: Key Functions Starting with Python 2.4, both list.sort() and sorted() added a key parameter to specify a function to be called on each list element prior to making comparisons. We have to do a little bit of reading between the lines he...

...ssion matching enumerator with named capture support" "How to find out the starting point for each match in ruby" Reading about special variables $&, $', $1, $2 in Ruby will be helpful too. share | ...

...able hardware. That said, and this relates to your question 3, with the start you have you probably shouldn't really be overly worried about performance or hyper-sensitivity to normalization orthodoxy here. This is a reporting server you are building, not a transaction based application backend,...

...r to be strictly standard's compliant. But until people viewing my website start complaining that "ever since upgrading my browser, about 50% of your website disappeared", I have no motive to change the code in my website. s...

... where optimizations could be used (and Unladen Swallow, a Google project, started to implement these before biting the dust). Here are some of the optimizations that they planned. I could see Python gaining V8 speed in the future if a JIT a la PyPy gets implemented for CPython, but that does not se...

... You have to be careful using this loop. I started using it and had a hard to track bug because of one mistake I made. If you nest two loops like this: jsfiddle.net/KQwmL/1. You have to be careful to name the var len differently in the two loops, otherwise the second ...

...g code. set b=%~0 echo %~n0%b:~8,4% I have learned that ":~8,4%" means start at the 9th character of the variable and then show show the next 4 characters. The range is 0 to the end of the variable string. So %Path% would be very long! fIlEnAmE.bat 012345678901 However, this is not as sound a...

.../boop/bar.js, node will look for ./foo.js in /beep/boop/foo.js. Paths that start with a ./ or ../ are always local to the file that calls require(). If however you require a non-relative name such as require('xyz') from /beep/boop/foo.js, node searches these paths in order, stopping at the first ma...

... to obtain relative ordering of X elements, have already been posted, I'll start by some notes on "why" and "when" to use the various approaches. The "best" approach will depend on different factors: Is sorting ranges of X objects a common or a rare task (will such ranges be sorted a mutiple diff...

...e app after a long time, to a version using database version 7 and the app starts crashing because of certain incompatible changes. Then the updates in the database will be done step-wise, covering all possible cases, i.e. incorporating the changes in the database done for each new version and ther...