Since I started learning F# and OCaml last year, I've read a huge number of articles which insist that design patterns (especially in Java) are workarounds for the missing features in imperative languages. One article I found makes a fairly strong claim : ...

...sites I built times ago, that use jquery mouse events...I just got an ipad and i noticed that all the mouse over events are translated in clicks...so for instance i have to do two clicks instead of one..(the first hover, than the actual click) ...

...r silver bullet. There are good strategies for debugging in any language, and they apply here too (e.g. read this nice article). For instance, the first thing is to reproduce the problem...if you can't do that, then you need to get more information (e.g. with logging). Once you can reproduce it, ...

... To answer your specific question: No, from the standpoint of learning a language, recursion isn't a feature. If your professor really docked you marks for using a "feature" he hadn't taught yet, that was wrong. Reading between the lines, one possibility is that by using r...

Trying to understand as best as I can the differences between TCP socket and websocket, I've already found a lot of useful information within these questions: ...

...em is by capturing the CPU profiler snapshot as described in this document and sending it to PyCharm support team, either by submitting a ticket or directly into the issue tracker. After the CPU snapshot is analyzed, PyCharm team will work on a fix and release a new version which will (hopefully) n...

I have just downloaded and installed Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate RC, but I'm having an issue with the intellisense: it does not work until I press Ctrl + Space . Code suggestions are disabled also (method parameters for example). ...

I am creating all of the elements in my android project dynamically. I am trying to get the width and height of a button so that I can rotate that button around. I am just trying to learn how to work with the android language. However, it returns 0. ...

In swift there seem to be two equality operators: the double equals ( == ) and the triple equals ( === ), what is the difference between the two? ...

...o approach that without developing a parser from scratch: You could cheat and write a "parser" that uses Pandoc to convert markdown to RST and pass that to the RST parser :-). You can use an existing markdown->XML parser and transform the result (using XSLT?) to the docutils schema. You could ...