I can't really ever think of a time when I would use git merge rather than git rebase and not want to have a commit show up. Is there any way to configure git to have fast forwarding off by default? The fact that there's an --ff option would seem to imply that there's a way, but I can't se...

... the many ways to specify the variables to act on. Here, vars(-Month) says all variables except Month. share | improve this answer | follow | ...

...om numbers. However, it seems to me that given enough time, it would eventually repeat it self, just by pure chance. Is there a better system or a pattern of some type to alleviate this issue? ...

...ear (Sunday as the first day of the week) as a zero padded decimal number. All days in a new year preceding the first Sunday are considered to be in week 0. Examples: 00, 01, …, 53 %W - Week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number. All days in a new year p...

I asked this question to get to know how to increase the runtime call stack size in the JVM. I've got an answer to this, and I've also got many useful answers and comments relevant to how Java handles the situation where a large runtime stack is needed. I've extended my question with the summary of ...

...g now (I was using this pattern before but still with no success)...I was calling setNeedsLayout instead of layoutIfNeeded Surely a DOH moment! Actually just changing a constraint automatically calls setNeedsLayout so I guess layoutIfNeeded overrides it somehow. – borrrden ...

...olatile variable. There are at least three common reasons to use it, all involving situations where the value of the variable can change without action from the visible code: When you interface with hardware that changes the value itself; when there's another thread running that also uses the ...

...e back), I was told that it's good practice to include a default clause in all switch statements. I recently remembered this advice but can't remember what the justification was. It sounds fairly odd to me now. ...

...eans an operation that appears to be instantaneous from the perspective of all other threads. You don't need to worry about a partly complete operation when the guarantee applies. share | improve th...

...evelopment mode, because if your app restarts (process dies) you will lose all the session data (that resided in the memory of that process). If you don't want to use a database, use encrypted cookie storage instead. http://www.senchalabs.org/connect/cookieSession.html ...