...lelism, error handling, etc). Regarding performance, although from-scratch raw large file transfer speed would be similar, browsers have had years to finely tune caching of web content (much of which applies to AJAX requests) so in practice, switching from AJAX to WebSockets is unlikely to provide m...

...le system yet ... not even partition table parsing; so we'd just deal with raw ranges of blocks on the disk at first). At that point your boot loader should be able to pull new code across the serial line, dump it into a partition (yes, implement partition table handling of some sort ... whether it...

...tive regular expressions syntax (expressed using Python's handy r'''...''' raw-multi-line-string syntax). First here is a regular expression which validates that a CVS string meets the above requirements: Regular expression to validate a "CSV string": re_valid = r""" # Validate a CSV string having s...

...ch for the sorts of problems we face. Our problems are all about taking in raw information -- strings and metadata -- and transforming them into different strings and metadata. In situations where mutations occur, like someone is typing in the IDE, the problem space inherently lends itself to functi...

...er defined methods and functions as it leaves the system open to returning raw HTML. So an opinionated framework developer only allows access to data structures. By design, the software is limiting and encourages the designer into doing things their way. Another example (taken from the signals link...

...igning to it. Have a look at its documentation here. Finally, the use of a raw function pointer is also a bit oldish. Modern C++ code should be decoupled from specific functions / types. You may want to look into Boost.Function to look for a better way. It would look like this then (the map): typed...

...Bandwidth in decreasing efficiency: Plugin networking: Flash sockets are raw except for initial policy request WebSockets: connection setup handshake and a few bytes per frame HTTP streaming (re-use of server connection) HTTP long-poll: connection for every message HTTP poll: connection for every ...

...unning these VMs on other platforms, I'd say that you'll probably get more raw performance out of Java than Python. Don't underestimate Python's selling points, however: The Python language is much more productive in terms of lines of code - the general agreement is that Python requires a third of ...

... data types: How are they encoded in the programming language? If they are raw bytes, the minute you try to output non-ASCII characters, you may run into a few problems. Also, even if the character type is based on a UTF, that doesn't mean the strings are proper UTF. They may allow byte sequences th...

... the vector. To manage that, what vector does under the covers is allocate raw memory via the Allocator object (which, unless you specify otherwise, means it uses ::operator new). Then, when you use (for example) push_back to add an item to the vector, internally the vector uses a placement new to c...