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I'm trying to horizontally center a <div> block element on a page and have it set to a minimum width. What is the simplest way to do this? I want the <div> element to be inline with rest of my page. I'll try to draw an example: ...

...andard library in the main Python distribution. The intention is to make all code that goes in the official python distribution consistently formatted (I hope we can agree that this is universally a Good Thing™). Since the decision between spaces and tabs for an individual programmer is a) real...

...o write a simple makefile What is Make? And Why Should I Care? The tool called Make is a build dependency manager. That is, it takes care of knowing what commands need to be executed in what order to take your software project from a collection of source files, object files, libraries, headers, et...

...a "Top-level build file" where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules. If you use another module in your project, as a local library you would have another build.gradle file: <PROJECT_ROOT>\module\build.gradle For example in your top level file you can specify t...

...elational database to minimize redundancy and dependency. Normalization usually involves dividing large tables into smaller (and less redundant) tables and defining relationships between them. The objective is to isolate data so that additions, deletions, and modifications of a field can be made in ...

.... That may be true (although what about the memory and processing cost of allocating a new array, and discarding the old one?) but even if it's faster it may not be as big a deal as it would be for a naive implementation, because NSArrays do not behave like "normal" arrays. They talk the talk but ...

...ach other. However, a read-write-session page can't start processing until all read-only requests have completed, and while it is running it must have exclusive access to that user's session in order to maintain consistency. Locking on individual values wouldn't work, because what if one page change...

...erent delimiter instead: :%s@<doc/>@<cat\\>@ This saves you all typing all those time-consuming, confusing backslashes in patterns with a ton of slashes. From the documentation: Instead of the / which surrounds the pattern and replacement string, you can use any other single-b...

...ime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time.mktime(time.gmtime())) expression. (1) If all you need is the difference between two instants in seconds, the very simple time.time() does the job. (2) If you are using those timestamps for other purposes, you need to consider what you are doing, because the result ...