I have a Bash shell script in which I would like to pause execution until the user presses a key. In DOS, this is easily accomplished with the "pause" command. Is there a Linux equivalent I can use in my script? ...

Is there a simple attribute or data contract that I can assign to a function parameter that prevents null from being passed in C#/.NET? Ideally this would also check at compile time to make sure the literal null isn't being used anywhere for it and at run-time throw ArgumentNullException . ...

It bugs me that I can't just do document.querySelectorAll(...).map(...) even in Firefox 3.6, and I still can't find an answer, so I thought I'd cross-post on SO the question from this blog: ...

I recently upgraded to 10.7.3, and when I try to debug my iOS project in the simulator for the first time after logging in, I'm prompted with the following two alerts: ...

Is there a way to get the function parameter names of a function dynamically? 31 Answers ...

In R, mean() and median() are standard functions which do what you'd expect. mode() tells you the internal storage mode of the object, not the value that occurs the most in its argument. But is there is a standard library function that implements the statistical mode for a vector (or list)? ...

I have been trying to reset my MySQL root password. I have run the mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables, updated the root password, and checked the user table to make sure it is there. Once restarting the mysql daemon I tried logging in with the new root password that I just set and still get Access de...

For a poor man's implementation of near -collation-correct sorting on the client side I need a JavaScript function that does efficient single character replacement in a string. ...

I want to write a query like this: 29 Answers 29 ...

Note: I am aware of the Iterator#remove() method. 10 Answers 10 ...