...r receives anything, that thread will never do anything. An actor on react does not occupy any thread until it receives something. Once it receives something, a thread gets allocated to it, and it is initialized in it. Now, the initialization part is important. A receiving thread is expected to ret...

...mogeneous data and tuples for heterogeneous, the fact is that the language doesn't enforce this. Therefore, I think this interpretation is more of a style issue than anything else. It so happens that in many people's typical use cases, lists tend to be array-like and tuples tend to be record-like....

... the other version (so no merging occurs). The merge(ours|theirs) tool re-does the three way merge from the local, base, and remote versions of the file, choosing to resolve conflicts in the given direction. This has some caveats, specifically: it ignores the diff options that were passed to the m...

... RSS/Atom feeds does not allow for historic information to be retrieved. It is up to the publisher of the feed to provide it if they want such as in the blogger or wordpress examples you gave above. The only reason that Google Reader has mo...

... The code in the controller does not seem to execute from my experience. MVC4 - throwing a System.Exception in a different controller will make the Error.cshtml file render, but not through the ErrorController. Anyone else experiencing this? ...

...For example in Python: str = 5 + "hello" # would throw an error since it does not want to cast one type to the other implicitly. whereas in PHP: $str = 5 + "hello"; // equals 5 because "hello" is implicitly casted to 0 // PHP is weakly typed, thus is a very forgiving language. Static typing...

Does anyone know the difference between String and string in TypeScript? Am I correct in assuming that they ought to be the same? ...

... @TwistedUmbrella The AsyncTask does not add a page of code, it adds 6 lines (class declaration, override annotation, doInBackground declaration, 2 closing brackets and a call to execute()). On the other hand, even a single fetch from a site as you mention ...

... So does this mean that the wall-clock time will always be greater than the cpu time? – Pacerier Dec 16 '14 at 10:02 ...

...oals (including, say, all the plugins) that it is possible to run? Maven doesn't have anything built-in for that, although the list of phases is finite (the list of plugin goals isn't since the list of plugins isn't). But you can make things easier and leverage the power of bash completion (usin...