... on lots of factors, like which JVM you're running on, which mode it's in, and which garbage collection algorithm it's using. I wouldn't depend on it in your code. If the JVM is about to throw an OutOfMemoryError, calling System.gc() won't stop it, because the garbage collector will attempt to f...

...eplex.com/ I have nothing to do with this project, but I just used it now and it saved me a few minutes. Maybe it will help someone. share | improve this answer | follow ...

I have two existing dictionaries, and I wish to 'append' one of them to the other. By that I mean that the key,values of the other dictionary should be made into the first dictionary. For example: ...

... doesn't have such option). Also, can this be done with a single line command? 20 Answers ...

... Use chr() and ord(): >>> chr(97) 'a' >>> ord('a') 97 share | improve this answer | follow...

... To get summary of new/missing files, and which files differ: diff -arq folder1 folder2 a treats all files as text, r recursively searched subdirectories, q reports 'briefly', only when files differ ...

... Your question is wrong, so to speak. What's happening here isn't "ampersand and colon", it's "ampersand and object". The colon in this case is for the symbol. So, there's & and there's :foo. The & calls to_proc on the object, and passes it as a block to the method. In Rails, to_proc is im...

I've just finished re-installing my OS, and as always install and test standard tools which I use, and now I get this error like never before when I tried to start Jboss 5 from eclipse, its quite big exeption : ...

I have a C# solution with two projects: a service (the main project) and a logger. The service uses classes from the logger. I've added a Reference to the logger project within the service project. At design time, autocomplete works fine: the logger's classes are visible, references that I use are c...

...the last commit, including deleting added files, resetting modified files, and adding back deleted files? 3 Answers ...