I see a lot of talk on here about functional languages and stuff. Why would you use one over a "traditional" language? What do they do better? What are they worse at? What's the ideal functional programming application? ...

Can someone explain the implications of using with (nolock) on queries, when you should/shouldn't use it? 16 Answers ...

I have to build a small webapp for a company to maintain their business data... Only those within the company will be using it, but we are planning to host it in public domain, so that the employees can connect to app from various locations. (Till now I have built web apps that are hosted internall...

String does not have ReplaceAt() , and I'm tumbling a bit on how to make a decent function that does what I need. I suppose the CPU cost is high, but the string sizes are small so it's all ok ...

I have a scroll view with content that is 1000px tall and would like to be able to lay it out for easy design on the storyboard. I know it can be done programmatically but I really want to be able to see it visually. Every time I put a scroll view on a view controller it won't scroll. Is it possib...

What is the simplest way (least error-prone, least lines of code, however you want to interpret it) to open a file in C and read its contents into a string (char*, char[], whatever)? ...

Let's say I got a list of dictionaries: 18 Answers 18 ...

I want to know the difference between a file descriptor and file pointer. 9 Answers 9 ...

With git rebase --interactive <commit> you can squash any number of commits together into a single one. 9 Answers ...

I know that both Watchers and Observers are computed as soon as something in $scope changes in AngularJS. But couldn't understand what exactly is the difference between the two. ...