...ion (In critical section multi threads share a common variable, updating a table, writing a file and so on), it releases the lock when it leaves critical section. What is a Race Condition? A race condition occurs when two or more threads can access shared data and they try to change it at the same t...

...t aggregation stage where I can instruct it to add a new field and include all existing fields, without having to list all the existing fields. ...

...t is truthy [], [[]] and [0] (thanks cloudfeet for the JavaScript Equality Table link) Some more truthy values These are just a few values that some people might expect to be falsey, but are actually truthy. -1 and all non-zero negative numbers ' ', " ", "false", 'null'... all non-empty strin...

...n of those file-types through using lines like the below in the p4 protect table: write user * * -//.../*.suo write user * * -//.../*.obj write user * * -//.../*.ccscc I remember doing this before, but I don't have the necessary permissions to test this here. Check out Perforce's Sysadmin guide a...

... some other parameters). func with different parameters can be run in parallel. For example: 4 Answers ...

... complete. Some caveats about list.index follow. It is probably worth initially taking a look at the documentation for it: list.index(x[, start[, end]]) Return zero-based index in the list of the first item whose value is equal to x. Raises a ValueError if there is no such item. The optional argum...

...ate ).lol() // alert message In the snippet above, I define a method for all Date objects ( already existing ones and all new ones ). extend is usually a high level function that copies the prototype of a new subclass that you want to extend from the base class. So you can do something like: e...

... Usually not. For virtual methods, HotSpot keeps track of whether the method has actually been overridden, and is able to perform optimizations such as inlining on the assumption that a method hasn't been overridden - until it lo...

...e counts for a lot of the letters in a given string, Counter provides them all in a more succinct form. If you want the count for one letter from a lot of different strings, Counter provides no benefit. – Brenden Brown Feb 17 '15 at 19:30 ...

..., with the hash as, say, their memory location? It can be done without really breaking any of the requirements, but it leads to unexpected behavior. Lists are generally treated as if their value was derived from their content's values, for instance when checking (in-)equality. Many would - underst...