... What irks me most though is the run-time check of the hidden boolean in getInstance() That is an assumption on implementation technique. There need be no assumptions about it being alive. see stackoverflow.com/a/335746/14065 You can force ...

... An OutputStream is one where you write data to. If some module exposes an OutputStream, the expectation is that there is something reading at the other end. Something that exposes an InputStream, on the other hand, is indicating that you will need to listen to this stream, and there will b...

...eanstalk, Windows Azure, Heroku, Force.com, Google App Engine, Apache Stratos. While in SaaS (Software as a Service) model you are provided with access to application software often referred to as "on-demand software". You don't have to worry about the installation, setup and running of the applicat...

...buffs so that I can manage conflicts myself ( otherwise sometimes I might lose unsaved changes, the way my workflow currently works. ) – Dave Sep 27 '09 at 0:53 2 ...

... best solution? The Android Build System link is broken - what is that supposed to be? There are a bunch of toolkits to aid in building with the NDK. However they all fail with various build errors for me, and seem a little old. Is there any reason why someone can't just post a built static ffmpeg l...

...ere's built-in support for providing alternatives for different languages, OS versions, screen orientations, etc., as described here. None of that is available with assets. Also, many parts of the API support the use of resource identifiers. Finally, the names of the resources are turned into consta...

...un it When creating the virtual machine, you need to set the type of guest OS as Linux instead of Other. After creating the virtual machine set the network adapter to 'Bridged'. · Start the VM and select 'Live CD VESA' at boot. Now you need to find out the IP of this VM. Go to terminal in VM (use...

... may do different things. For instance, on systems that don't use X11 like OSX or Windows, the "* register is used to read and write to the system clipboard. On X11 systems both registers can be used. See :help x11-selection for more details, but basically the "* is analogous to X11's _PRIMARY_ sele...

...on's script editor (it's like VBA for our internal product for quick macros). Most files are about 300-400 KB which is fine loading. But when they go beyond 100 MB the process has a hard time (as you'd expect). ...

...GCable. In such cases, you can get better performance by avoiding the costs of the null volatile-write. There are a few other use cases along these lines for non-reference-based atomics as well, so the method is supported across all of the AtomicX classes. For people who like to think...