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First, this is a very specific case of doing it the wrong way on-purpose to retrofit an asynchronous call into a very synchronous codebase that is many thousands of lines long and time doesn't currently afford the ability to make the changes to "do it right." It hurts every fiber of my being, but re...

I found the jQuery.com document on queue() / dequeue() is too simple to understand. What exactly are queues in jQuery? How should I use them? ...

In a C++ question about optimization and code style , several answers referred to "SSO" in the context of optimizing copies of std::string . What does SSO mean in that context? ...

I would like superimpose two scatter plots in R so that each set of points has its own (different) y-axis (i.e., in positions 2 and 4 on the figure) but the points appear superimposed on the same figure. ...

Let me prefix this by saying that I know what foreach is, does and how to use it. This question concerns how it works under the bonnet, and I don't want any answers along the lines of "this is how you loop an array with foreach ". ...

I wish to have long and short forms of command line options invoked using my shell script. 32 Answers ...

I just discovered this old C++0x draft about modules in C++0x. 4 Answers 4 ...

In Microsoft SQL Server how can I get a query execution plan for a query / stored procedure? 12 Answers ...

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