...dard as an anti-piracy measure. To be honest, this strikes me as (in)Security Through Obscurity , although I really have no idea how license keys are generated. What is a good (secure) example of license key generation? What cryptographic primitive (if any) are they using? Is it a message digest? I...

...bove has the value true. Why? = has a higher precedence than and. The addition of parentheses to show the implicit order makes this clearer: ($truthiness = $this_one) and $that If you used && instead of and in the first code example, it would work as expected and be false. As discussed...

First, this is a very specific case of doing it the wrong way on-purpose to retrofit an asynchronous call into a very synchronous codebase that is many thousands of lines long and time doesn't currently afford the ability to make the changes to "do it right." It hurts every fiber of my being, but re...

Are there any editors that can edit multi-gigabyte text files, perhaps by only loading small portions into memory at once? It doesn't seem like Vim can handle it =( ...

... is this - is the operation performed on the object or by the object? if it is done by the object, it should be a member operation. If it could apply to other things too, or is done by something else to the object then it should be a function (or perhaps a member of something else). When introduc...

I'd prefer as little formal definition as possible and simple mathematics. 41 Answers ...

My personal style with C++ has always to put class declarations in an include file, and definitions in a .cpp file, very much like stipulated in Loki's answer to C++ Header Files, Code Separation . Admittedly, part of the reason I like this style probably has to do with all the years I spent coding...

...d table depends on a row in a parent table. This may be confusing because it's common practice these days to create a pseudokey for a child table, but not make the foreign key to the parent part of the child's primary key. Formally, the "right" way to do this is to make the foreign key part of the...

Is there a selector that I can query for elements with an ID that ends with a given string? 9 Answers ...

Trying to open a VS 2012 solution (SLN file) explicitly in VS 2013 succeeds. Simply double-clicking it in Windows Explorer still opens it in VS 2012 instead. ...