Ive got a bunch of rectangular objects which I need to pack into the smallest space possible (the dimensions of this space should be powers of two). ...

I was making my way through the Scala playframework tutorial and I came across this snippet of code which had me puzzled: ...

I was writing a simple script in the school computer, and committing the changes to Git (in a repo that was in my pendrive, cloned from my computer at home). After several commits I realized I was committing stuff as the root user. ...

I know there are many posts out there about the differences between these two patterns, but there are a few things that I cannot find. ...

This question arose from comments about different kinds of progress in computing over the last 50 years or so. 129 Answer...

In C# (and many other languages) it's perfectly legitimate to access private fields of other instances of the same type. For example: ...

I'm a Python newbie, but I've just spent a day working out how to get MySQLdb working properly, and the universe according to google includes numerous references to what a PITA it is, and an inordinate number of guides that seem to be outdated. Given that this site is intended to address these sort...

I'm working on a projects which involves a lot of database writes, I'd say ( 70% inserts and 30% reads ). This ratio would also include updates which I consider to be one read and one write. The reads can be dirty (e.g. I don't need 100% accurate information at the time of read). The task in que...

I'm at the beginning/middle of a project that we chose to implement using GWT. Has anyone encountered any major pitfalls in using GWT (and GWT-EXT) that were unable to be overcome? How about from a performance perspective? ...

I know that Python does not support method overloading, but I've run into a problem that I can't seem to solve in a nice Pythonic way. ...