... As asked above, what is considered the offset parent? It seems that calling position() on the first div inside another div does not always return 0,0 - even when there is no other styling or positioning going on. – Kokodoko Jun 23 '14 at 13:49 ...

...ple, both localCounter and localCharacter are modified before the block is called. However, inside the block, only the modification to localCharacter would be visible, thanks to the __block keyword. Conversely, the block can modify localCharacter and this modification is visible outside of the block...

...rs: Caching: if we have a service which makes potentially expensive HTTP calls, we can wrap the service in a caching decorator which checks local storage before making the external call. Debugging/Tracing: have a switch depending on your development/production configuration which decorates your se...

Are there any standard library calls I can use to either perform set operations on two arrays, or implement such logic myself (ideally as functionally and also efficiently as possible)? ...

... and execute, and in that answer it could have been constructed just once (calling Regex.IsMatch was just constructing the regex again behind the scene). And Match method could have been called only once and stored in a variable and then linkand name should call Result from that variable. And the I...

...t's somehow possible exploiting git, but really not recommended). you can call git gc --aggressive --prune, which will perform garbage collection in your repository and prune old objects. do you have a lot of binary files (archives, images, executables) which change often? those usually lead to hug...

... @floatingLomas The serialization mechanism in python is called pickle: stackoverflow.com/questions/11218477/… – SadSeven Jul 19 '16 at 11:10 1 ...

...m it to be unsafe or not. It evaluates the code as soon as the function is called. See also the dangers of eval. ast.literal_eval raises an exception if the input isn't a valid Python datatype, so the code won't be executed if it's not. Use ast.literal_eval whenever you need eval. You shouldn't us...

...ld-wide telephone network due to its unique telephone number and route the call appropriately (+1 for the USA, 816 for Missouri, etc.). – Stefan Gehrig Feb 6 '11 at 13:07 ...

...ned on that answer, its use is defined by the Itanium C++ ABI, where it is called the Personality Routine. The reason it "works" by defining it as a global NULL void pointer is probably because nothing is throwing an exception. When something tries to throw an exception, then you will see it misbeh...