Although I do understand the serious implications of playing with this function (or at least that's what I think), I fail to see why it's becoming one of these things that respectable programmers wouldn't ever use, even those who don't even know what it is for. ...

I have investigated this problem for months now, came up with different solutions to it, which I am not happy with since they are all massive hacks. I still cannot believe that a class that flawed in design made it into the framework and no-one is talking about it, so I guess I just must be missing ...

What is a good Hash function? I saw a lot of hash function and applications in my data structures courses in college, but I mostly got that it's pretty hard to make a good hash function. As a rule of thumb to avoid collisions my professor said that: ...

I am reading for SCJP and I have a question regarding this line: 7 Answers 7 ...

I want to compress a JPG image file with ImageMagick but can't get much difference in size. By default the output size is bigger than the input. I don't know why, but after adding some +profile options and setting down the quality I can get an smaller size but still similar to original. ...

Or more generally, how do I remove an item from a colon-separated list in a Bash environment variable? 33 Answers ...

When I attempt to run certain commands (like git push, for example) from a git Bash on Windows 7 (64bit) I get the error: 2...

I'm trying to compile my excel addin using C# 4.0, and started to get this problem when building my project in Visual Studio. It's important to tell you that I haven't had this problem before. What could cause this to happen? ...

I have a hyperlink in my page. I am trying to automate a number of clicks on the hyperlink for testing purposes. Is there any way you can simulate 50 clicks on the hyperlink using JavaScript? ...

I am looking for a good and well developed library for geometrical manipulations and evaluations in python, like: 8 Answers...