...n third party API call to change your strings. StringBuilder was added in order to address the one major disadvantage of immutable strings - runtime construction of immutable types causes a lot of GC pressure and is inherently slow. By making an explicit, mutable class to handle this, this issue i...

... I actually like MY JavaScript files to be validated, but I definitely don't want to validate and deal with trivial warnings with third party libraries. That's why I think that turning off validation all together is too drastic. F...

... Adding /k between two commands executes both command in order. Example: cmd /k echo "hello" this command will first open command prompt then execute echo "hello" command share | ...

... +1 Sold. I am going to order this book. I have used awk for years as a quick and powerful one-liner scripting language. Awk is a great pre-processor for files that would otherwise take a dozen lines to code. I cannot count how many times I have use...

... @jpmc26 Normally that's good advice, but the csv module doesn't work properly with io.open. There is a unicodecsv 3rd party module for Python 2.7 that works better. – Mark Tolonen Feb 26 '18 at 22:...

...width() returns 0. Makes sense, but I need to get the width of a table in order to set the width of the parent before I show the parent. ...

...like Google's libjingle). They do use their own servers to middle-man in order to do the handshake and connection set-up, but most of the time the relationship between client and server will be P2P (best case, when the hand-shake is successful). If NAT traversal fails, then TeamViewer will indeed...

... It's true that you can call static methods in this way in order to perform complex calculations for argument values, which is fine. However, if one feels that code is needed before constructor delegation (this(...)) then it would be reasonable to assume that an horrible mistake has ...

... 2; alert($ + $$); jQuery just assigns it's core function to a variable called $. The code you have assigns this to a local variable called self and the results of calling jQuery with this as an argument to a global variable called $self. It's ugly, dirty, confusing, but $, self and $self are all...

...nization and raising unhandled exceptions in the finalizers. The execution order of finalizers is non-deterministic—in other words, you can't rely on another object still being available within your finalizer. Do not define finalizers on value types. Don't create empty destructors. In other words,...