I'm trying to write huge amounts of data onto my SSD(solid state drive). And by huge amounts I mean 80GB. 12 Answers ...

What's the preferred way to do command substitution in bash? 3 Answers 3 ...

One of the most interesting projects I've worked on in the past couple of years was a project about image processing . The goal was to develop a system to be able to recognize Coca-Cola 'cans' (note that I'm stressing the word 'cans', you'll see why in a minute). You can see a sample below, with ...

How dangerous is accessing an array outside of its bounds (in C)? It can sometimes happen that I read from outside the array (I now understand I then access memory used by some other parts of my program or even beyond that) or I am trying to set a value to an index outside of the array. The program ...

I need to read a large file, line by line. Lets say that file has more than 5GB and I need to read each line, but obviously I do not want to use readlines() because it will create a very large list in the memory. ...

This may seem like a newbie question, but it is not. Some common approaches don't work in all cases: 13 Answers ...

During a code review with a Microsoft employee we came across a large section of code inside a try{} block. She and an IT representative suggested this can have effects on performance of the code. In fact, they suggested most of the code should be outside of try/catch blocks, and that only importa...

How can I update multiple git repositories from their shared parent's directory without cd 'ing into each repo's root directory? I have the following which are all separate git repositories ( not submodules): ...

How to bring my application window to front? For example whan my app needs attention. 7 Answers ...

I have a string, let's say Hello world and I need to replace the char at index 3. How can I replace a char by specifying a index? ...