... @ЯрославРахматуллин in source code I would always read it in the "this is an ugly hack job, but seems to work well enough" sense - something you'd like to clean up later, but is not urgent. I've not used it (I typically use TODO or XXX instead), but that's how I would interp...

... @LarsH: You mean e.g. an iterator that reads from a file that can be changed while reading from it? I agree that this can be a problem (which affects any library providing next() and hasNext() method, not just a hypothetical Python library). So yes, next() and has...

... this is my full solution which would read any base64 image format and save it in the proper format in the database: // Save base64 image to disk try { // Decoding base-64 image // Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20267939/n...

... Kinda... it skips a lot of disk IO though as you don't have to read/write the data twice – Greg Mar 23 '09 at 21:39 8 ...

A good while ago, I read an article by the creator of viemu , clearing up a lot of the misconceptions about vi, as well as explaining why it's a good idea (and why it's been very popular for the last 30 years+). The same guy also has a great set of graphical cheat sheets that teach the basics a f...

... If you're just wanting (semi) contiguous regions, there's already an easy implementation in Python: SciPy's ndimage.morphology module. This is a fairly common image morphology operation. Basically, you have 5 steps: def find_paws(data, smooth_radius=5, threshold=0.0001): dat...

...rchased one has been signed by a Certificate Authority that your browser already knows about. In other words, your browser can easily validate the authenticity of a purchased certificate. Unfortunately this has led to a common misconception that self-signed certificates are inherently less secure t...

... Oi crap. I read it the other way around, fail's on me. Sorry! – Kablam May 16 '12 at 8:20 ...

...in(void) { void **mem = malloc(sizeof(char)*3); void *ptr; /* read past end */ ptr = (char*) mem[5]; /* write past end */ memcpy(mem[5], "whatever", sizeof("whatever")); /* free invalid pointer */ free((void*) mem[3]); return 0; } The code above can be co...

....stat() is that you can stat() a file even if you don't have permission to read it. Obviously the seek/tell approach won't work unless you have read permission. Edit 2 At Jonathon's suggestion, here's a paranoid version. (The version above leaves the file pointer at the end of the file, so if you...