I know that files in the res directory are accessible from R.class while assets behaves like a file system, but I would like to know, in general, when it's best to use one and the other. Can anyone help me in knowing the real differences between res and assets? ...

... NOTE: pd.convert_objects has now been deprecated. You should use pd.Series.astype(float) or pd.to_numeric as described in other answers. This is available in 0.11. Forces conversion (or set's to nan) This will work even when astype will fail; its als...

...eated the patch in question, or that you certify that to the best of your knowledge, it was created under an appropriate open-source license, or that it has been provided to you by someone else under those terms. This can help establish a chain of people who take responsibility for the copyright sta...

...l's Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) essay on character sets. Q: sry no time code pls A: Fine. try str('Some String') or 'Some String'.encode('ascii', 'ignore'). But you should really read some of the answers ...

...ut the whole idea of Inversion of Control is to have none of your classes know or care how they get the objects they depend on. This makes it easy to change what type of implementation of a given dependency you use at any time. It also makes the classes easy to test, as you can provide mock implemen...

I used ActionBar Style Generator, and now trying to use into my app, but getting : 17 Answers ...

... Thanks, I'm going with uuid.js now, since it uses browser's strong crypto if available. Will see if there are any collisions. – Muxa Aug 31 '11 at 22:21 ...

...kets in their implementation. Websockets are based on a standard protocol (now in final call, but not yet final) that defines a connection "handshake" and message "frame." The two sides go through the handshake procedure to mutually accept a connection and then use the standard message format ("fram...

...g to merge, and the 3rd tab, open by default, shows the 3-way merge view. Now, the reason the feature is hidden is that it's not polished enough yet. It's very useful as it is now, but Kai Willadsen, the meld author, pointed to few wrinkles that need ironing out. For example there's no GUI to start...

...for example). For this example, I will use 12510 (125 with a base of 10). Now you have to convert 12510 to X62 (base 62). 12510 = 2×621 + 1×620 = [2,1] This requires the use of integer division and modulo. A pseudo-code example: digits = [] while num > 0 remainder = modulo(num, 62) dig...