...s the definitions are certainly subjective and open to debate, but I personally prefer to think that C only supports higher order functions (via function pointers). However, first-class functions are not supported because functions are inferior to other value types like int or char, in the sense tha...

...nges to a file will often reach for revert before being told that they actually want reset. Similarly, the revert equivalent in other VCSes is often called rollback or something similar - but "rollback" can also mean "I want to completely discard the last few commits", which is appropriate for rese...

...uilt into Linux and userspace utilities to simulate networks. This is actually what Mark's answer refers to, by a different name. The examples on their homepage already show how you can achieve what you've asked for: Examples Emulating wide area network delays This is the simplest ex...

...t does work and it some not. I guess it depends on implementation. But for all latest updates for chrome and firefox it seems to work, so This answer is correct for latest implementations. – Tomas Aug 27 '12 at 4:39 ...

...lems that plagues me constantly. How do folks around Stack Overflow vertically align checkboxes and their labels consistently cross-browser ? Whenever I align them correctly in Safari (usually using vertical-align: baseline on the input ), they're completely off in Firefox and IE. Fix it ...

...nt to reset Android Studio 0.2.13 to the default state. That means reset all settings, remove all projects, all gradle files so that it would act like a fresh installation. What steps do I have to follow to achieve this? ...

... – who claims to be making an API request? Authentication – are they really who they say they are? Authorization – are they allowed to do what they are trying to do? or all three? If you just need to identify the caller to keep track of volume or number of API Calls, use a simple API Key. ...

...est way to pass an AngularJS scope variable from directive to controller? All of the examples that I've seen seem so complex, isn't there a way I can access a controller from a directive, and set one of it's scope variables? ...

... According to MSDN: "It is possible to force garbage collection by calling Collect, but most of the time, this should be avoided because it may create performance issues. " However, if you can reliably test your code to confirm that calling Collect() won't have a negative impact then ...

...rough an extra iterator (.Cast<Foos>), and (2) you don't need to box all the values and unbox them again. Şafak's cast will remain valid as long as they don't change the array type returned to some other type (like object[]). But we can be completely sure they won't because (a) it would lose ...