Quite often it is the case that you're writing a project of some kind, and after a while it becomes clear that some component of the project is actually useful as a standalone component (a library, perhaps). If you've had that idea from early on, then there's a fair chance that most of that code is ...

... According to the standards, pwd -P should return the path with symlinks resolved. C function char *getcwd(char *buf, size_t size) from unistd.h should have the same behaviour. getcwd pwd ...

Multiplication and division can be achieved using bit operators, for example 19 Answers ...

...might prefer range(): In python 3, range() does what xrange() used to do and xrange() does not exist. If you want to write code that will run on both Python 2 and Python 3, you can't use xrange(). range() can actually be faster in some cases - eg. if iterating over the same sequence multiple time...

...tances can be referenced using object-like variable dereferencing or the standard tuple syntax. They can be used similarly to struct or other common record types, except that they are immutable. They were added in Python 2.6 and Python 3.0, although there is a recipe for implementation in Python 2...

What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism? 37 Answers 37 ...

...umulator: the result of each run of the block is stored in the accumulator and then passed to the next execution of the block. In the case of the code shown above, you are defaulting the accumulator, result, to 0. Each run of the block adds the given number to the current total and then stores the r...

... problems Schildmeijer mentioned. So do "object foo extends App { ... }" And you have immediate access to command-line arguments through the args variable. – AmigoNico Jul 25 '12 at 2:55 ...

What is the difference between Digest and Basic Authentication ? 4 Answers 4 ...

...this huge (is 11000 lines huge?) mainmodule.cpp source file in our project and every time I have to touch it I cringe. 34 A...