Short version: It's common to return large objects—such as vectors/arrays—in many programming languages. Is this style now acceptable in C++0x if the class has a move constructor, or do C++ programmers consider it weird/ugly/abomination? ...

... You can implement a Comparator which compares two Person objects, and you can examine as many of the fields as you like. You can put in a variable in your comparator that tells it which field to compare to, although it would probably be simpler to just ...

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...cation consists of a mix of design patterns. I'll mention only the most important ones. Model View Controller pattern The core (architectural) design pattern you'd like to use is the Model-View-Controller pattern. The Controller is to be represented by a Servlet which (in)directly creates/uses a sp...

I followed this small "tutorial" on how to add a scrollbar to an ItemsControl, and it works in Designer view, but not when I compile and execute the program (only the first few items show up, and no scrollbar to view more - even when VerticalScrollbarVisibility is set to "Visible" instead of "Auto...

...39215689 is approximately equal to 1/255. Seeing that this is OpenGL, performance is probably important. So it's probably safe to guess that this was done for performance reasons. Multiplying by the reciprocal is faster than repeatedly dividing by 255. Side Note: If you're wondering why such a...

...ot of time in the shell lately and I'm wondering how the tab autocomplete works. What's the mechanism behind it? How does the bash know the contents of every directory? ...

Is there a way to convert a string from uppercase, or even part uppercase to lowercase? 5 Answers ...

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...ple using the 01 numbering in their documentation? There must be a reason for that. – dhrm Jan 3 '12 at 10:48 I think ...