...have to hunt out obsessives on the net. I think it's useful to understand what happens at the lower levels. As you research assembler you will learn about cpu pipelining, branch prediction, cache alignment, SIMD, instruction reordering and so on. Knowledge of these will help you write better high-l...

... Comments should be used to describe why the code does what it does (if it's not obvious), not what the code does. A possible exception is a crazy bit twiddling / language hack, like Carmack's magic number 0x5f3759df. – Chris Simmons Jul 7 '...

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Say I set base SDK to 7, what does it mean? It could mean that the app would run on iOS 7. But that's what iOS deployment target is for. ...

... What if I dont know what class it is until runtime? I will get the class as a parameter during runtime. Like this public <T> void deSerialize(Class<T> clazz { ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(); ...

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...at the result is as expected It should not look inside the method to see what it is doing, so changing the internals should not cause the test to fail. You should not directly test that private methods are being called. If you are interested in finding out whether your private code is being tested...

... of the product, so you plant a flag in the path labelled '1' (or '1.0' or what have you). At some other time some bright spark decides to parallelise the program, but decides that that will take weeks and that people want to keep going down the main path in the meantime. So you build a fork in th...

... What has to change before I need to use DynamicResource? Take a template for instance: i define it once but then of course triggers and stuff can change the content of the template but the template is still the same. Would St...