... Wasn't it also saving memory? Now all gems, even those not needed in "production" (only in precompile), are loaded and thus rails consumes more memory? – gucki Sep 12 '13 at 9:35 ...

The default shell in Mac OS X is bash , which I'm generally happy to be using. I just take it for granted. It would be really nice if it auto-completed more stuff , though, and I've heard good things about zsh in this regard. But I don't really have the inclination to spend hours fiddling with s...

... @Josepas the hash function should ideally return a size_t or other such unsigned value (such as the unsigned long in this code). The caller is responsible for taking modulo of the result to fit it to the hash table. The caller controls the table slot being hashed to; not the func...

...cript interfaces. Custom elements is a part of a larger W3 specification called Web Components, along with Templates, HTML Imports, and Shadow DOM. Web Components enable Web application authors to define widgets with a level of visual richness and interactivity not possible with CSS alone, and eas...

... An artifact is a file, usually a JAR, that gets deployed to a Maven repository. A Maven build produces one or more artifacts, such as a compiled JAR and a "sources" JAR. Each artifact has a group ID (usually a reversed domain name, like com.example....

...some fancy figure editor like Adobe Illustrator (or Inkscape). EDIT post Fall 2012: As others pointed out below (though mentioning here as this is the accepted answer), Matplotlib since version 1.2 allowed you to pickle figures. As the release notes state, it is an experimental feature and does no...

Academically speaking, what's the essential difference between the data structure Tree and Graph? And how about the tree based search and Graph based search? ...

... Is it possible to change the colour dynamically? – async May 29 '14 at 21:08 can the c...

... If I understood well the question actually is: "does every single coder in the world know enough English to use the exact same reserved words as I do?" Well.. English is not the subject here but programming language reserved words. I mean, when I started about ...

... The Homebrew package manager includes launchctl plists to start automatically. For more information, run brew info postgres. Start manually pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start Stop manually pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres stop Start automatically "To have launchd start postgresql now and res...