I noticed a difference when calling a function with empty parentheses, or without any parentheses at all. However, I am not passing any arguments to the function so I wondered, what would be the difference between: ...

... @Capsule - excellent question. From the docs it looks like you can use callback: function (url, result, key) {...} which fires on load or timeout. The default timeout can be overridden. I can't say I've tried it but looks like it might be worth the awkwardness ;) – johnhunte...

... Notice that the above is not exception safe. If anything between the new call and the delete call throws, you will leak memory, as nothing will call delete for you automatically. There are two immediate ways to solve this. boost::scoped_array boost::scoped_array will delete the memory for you upo...

...triangle ABC, where |AB|=|BC|? Let's make this easier by extending to a parallelogram ABCD. It's easy to generate points uniformly in ABCD. We uniformly pick a random point X on AB and Y on BC and choose Z such that XBYZ is a parallelogram. To get a uniformly chosen point in the original triangle we...

I have a custom class loader so that a desktop application can dynamically start loading classes from an AppServer I need to talk to. We did this since the amount of jars that are required to do this are ridiculous (if we wanted to ship them). We also have version problems if we don't load the class...

...a include the algorithm to find the longest common prefix, thus making actually using a tree structure unnecessary? Ie why check the tree for multiple children when you could detect that while building the tree. Why then a tree at all? I mean if you start with an array already. If you can change the...

...for example give the exception as argument in the constructor, tweak it to allow two values, and more. An alternative — arguably less elegant — solution: You can use a 'workaround' that involves peek() and an AtomicInteger, but really you shouldn't be using that. What you could do istead is just...

How to use a link to call JavaScript code? 9 Answers 9 ...

...ou return HTML content like that via xhr, you will cause jQuery to make a call to get that script. That call happens with an async flag false since it assumes you need the script to continue loading. In situations like this one you'd be better served by looking into a binding framework of some kin...

... Finally! I'm now able to have a fixed height, scrolling table body, fixed headers, adjustable column widths .... all without javascript! Thank you!! – Matt Hancock Dec 6 '15 at 23:13 ...