... That won't do, even a company as big as Microsoft cannot afford to create and support a specific WinRT version for every language binding. Nor is it necessary, given that these languages already support COM. Right now, the best binding for WinRT is C++ since COM works more efficiently with explic...

...on only considers two white space characters: the horizontal tab (U+0009), and a breaking space (U+0020). It does not consider other whitespace characters such as non-breaking spaces (which happen to be in the text I am trying to deal with). A more complete whitespace character listing is included...

... There are a few things going on. First, Scala allows dots and parens to be omitted from many method calls, so 20 seconds is equivalent to 20.seconds()*. Second, an "implicit conversion" is applied. Since 20 is an Int and Int has no seconds method, the compiler searches for an impli...

...n (if it can't, it throws an exception). It then takes the absolute value, and returns the result as a float. In addition to floats, abs() also works with integers and complex numbers. Its return type depends on the type of its argument. In [7]: type(abs(-2)) Out[7]: int In [8]: type(abs(-2.0)) Out...

...a form that has an infinite (while(true)) loop. In this loop I use WaitHandle.WaitAny to keep the thread snoozing until something of interest happens. One of the event handles I wait on is a " StopThread " event so that I can break out of the loop. This event is signaled when from my overridden ...

... The most common ways to use the shutdown command are: shutdown -s — Shuts down. shutdown -r — Restarts. shutdown -l — Logs off. shutdown -h — Hibernates. Note: There is a common pitfall wherein users think -h means "help" (which it does for every other comman...

...t to install (or have already installed in case of file generated by pip), and what versions they're at. To generate a requirements file, go into your original virtualenv, and run: pip freeze > requirements.txt This will generate the requirements.txt file for you. If you open that file up in ...

... find <expr> -type f -printf '.' | wc -c It will be more reliable and faster than counting the lines. Note that I use the find's printf, not an external command. Let's bench a bit : $ ls -1 a e l ll.sh r t y z My snippet benchmark : $ time find -type f -printf '.' | wc -c 8 real ...

... This is the command that you need to execute on the mirror: git remote update share | improve this answer | follo...

...see an exception like the one you have described. The usual approach for handling such issues is to register event log sources at installation time (under an administrator account), then assume that they exist at runtime, allowing any resulting exception to be treated as unexpected if a target even...