...e saying, how many weeks have passed since Monday, January 1, 1900? Let's call that [n]. Ok, now add [n] weeks to Monday, January 1, 1900. You should not be surprised that this ends up being a Monday. DATEADD has no idea that you want to add weeks but only until you get to a Sunday, it's just adding...

...ab characters in your file to appear 4 spaces wide, or by "tab" do you actually mean an indent, generated by pressing the tab key, which would result in the file literally containing (up to) 4 space characters for each "tab" you type? Depending on your answer, one of the following sets of settings ...

...s to those options, can't easily port them from machine to machine, and it all makes me really yearn for the good old days of .INI files... ...

... I can't really give a definitive answer, because by the time I interviewed at Google in 2004 Python was already prominent at Google. Indeed, there's one apparently attractive explanation that I can definitely deny: it's not that Googl...

...1, @field2 fetch next from cur into @field1, @field2 END close cur deallocate cur in MS SQL, here's an example article note that cursors are slower than set-based operations, but faster than manual while-loops; more details in this SO question ADDENDUM 2: if you will be processing more tha...

... things that may slow down your use of filter. The first is the function call overhead: as soon as you use a Python function (whether created by def or lambda) it is likely that filter will be slower than the list comprehension. It almost certainly is not enough to matter, and you shouldn't think m...

...l port, but will send/receive everything it does via /dev/ptyp5. If you really need it to talk to a file called /dev/ttys2, then simply move your old /dev/ttys2 out of the way and make a symlink from ptyp5 to ttys2. Of course you can use some number other than ptyp5. Perhaps pick one with a high ...

...e. For use of unevaluated ... argument look at write.csv code where match.call is used. As you write in comment result in Dirk answer is not a list of lists. Is a list of length 4, which elements are language type. First object is a symbol - list, second is expression 1:10 and so on. That explain wh...

...t'll show the hash of the tag object itself. – Lily Ballard Jan 9 '12 at 23:43 20 To show a list ...

... If you know the total length of the string that you're going to preallocate then the most efficient way to concatenate strings may be using the builtin function copy. If you don't know the total length before hand, do not use copy, and read the other answers instead. In my tests, that approa...