How can I convert a uniform distribution (as most random number generators produce, e.g. between 0.0 and 1.0) into a normal distribution? What if I want a mean and standard deviation of my choosing? ...

What are the differences between socket.io and websockets in node.js? Are they both server push technologies? The only differences I felt was, ...

I'm new to Python, coming from Java and C. How can I increment a char? In Java or C, chars and ints are practically interchangeable, and in certain loops, it's very useful to me to be able to do increment chars, and index arrays by chars. ...

... And if you want to implement it yourself: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher-Yates_shuffle – Joey Nov 29 '09 at 18:52 ...

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Is there any way to disable the "Press ENTER or type command to continue" prompt that appears after executing an external command? ...

..., it is a keyword). So in the canonical definitions in the respective SGML and XML standards it is always uppercase. If you find software that permits a lowercase "doctype" that software is not in compliance with the standards. Browsers are designed to be "liberal in what they accept", but a complia...

Ok, so I've read both PEP 8 and PEP 257 , and I've written lots of docstrings for functions and classes, but I'm a little unsure about what should go in a module docstring. I figured, at a minimum, it should document the functions and classes that the module exports, but I've also seen a few mod...

... I think they might become more popular as HTML 5 standards progress. If a web application is given access to web workers, I could foresee developers using a dedicated web worker to make synchronous requests for, as Jonathan said, to ensure one request happens before another....

I don't understand what %s and %d do and how they work. 12 Answers 12 ...