Does anyone know of any resources that talk about best practices or design patterns for shell scripts (sh, bash etc.)? 9 An...

What does for row_number, row in enumerate(cursor): do in Python? 5 Answers 5 ...

How do I modify the owner of all tables in a PostgreSQL database? 20 Answers 20 ...

...sed to it by checking the type, presence or quantity of arguments. jQuery does this all the time. You can make some of the arguments optional or you can branch in your function depending upon what arguments are passed to it. In implementing these types of overloads, you have several different tec...

How do I force Python's print function to output to the screen? 13 Answers 13 ...

... I understand this answer, but I still don't get why bool to int conversion is inverted. Is there a "return boolean convention" that says: if you return true, it means there is no errors, if you return false, it means an error occured (like the "integer = error co...

...rge you to consider C++. There is so much boilerplate nonsense you have to do with C---very tedious and very avoidable. Have a look at the Rcpp-introduction vignette. Another simple example is this blog post where I show that instead of worrying about 10% differences (in one of the Radford Neal exa...

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... This is a very insufficient way of doing it, since you will loop entire directory for each filter. Instead you should check for each file if it has the filter then add to do the list. You can use the answer explained in this thread: stackoverflow.com/questions...

...e</span></h1> If the style applies to the entire h1 block, I do this: <h1 class="highlight">Page Title</h1> share | improve this answer | follow ...