I understand that if I pass a value-type ( int , struct , etc.) as a parameter (without the ref keyword), a copy of that variable is passed to the method, but if I use the ref keyword a reference to that variable is passed, not a new one. ...

...eat it like a module: import file. This is good because it's secure, fast, and maintainable. Code gets reused as it's supposed to be done. Most Python libraries run using multiple methods stretched over lots of files. Highly recommended. Note that if your file is called file.py, your import should n...

My problem is that I was looking for way to use both storyboard and xib . But I can't find proper way to load and show storyboard programmatically. Project was started developing with xib, and now it's very hard to nest all xib files in storyboard. So I was looking a way to do it in code, like wi...

...t can hold a heterogenous collection of objects (their types do not matter and can be freely mixed). This should not be confused with the array module, which offers a type closer to the C array type; the contents must be homogenous (all of the same type), but the length is still dynamic. ...

...y extension, this move is an in-place operation. If you want to avoid that and return a copy, use slice. Stepping through the code: If new_index is greater than the length of the array, we want (I presume) to pad the array properly with new undefineds. This little snippet handles this by pushing ...

PostgreSQL just introduced JSONB and it's already trending on hacker news . It would be great if someone could explain how it's different from Hstore and JSON previously present in PostgreSQL. What are its advantages and limitations and when should someone consider using it? ...

...urity flaw" but it also provides essential functionality in some instances and Chrome could give us the ability to enable it for certain URL's, with a warning and research to figure out how to do it, rather than just disabling it wholesale – Arcan.NET Dec 11 '1...

...display text labels on colorscales/heatmaps. It had to be universal method and generated color had to be "good looking", which means that simple generating complementary color was not good solution - sometimes it generated strange, very intensive colors that were hard to watch and read. After long ...

...want to check out the guide I link for more info on migrations in general, and you may even end up putting calling SQL code directly in your migration. I would say ignore it, as it isn't a normal part of rails, you will get 0 performance out of it, as rails' default generated SQL queries take no adv...

I get an integer and I need to convert to a month names in various locales: 13 Answers ...