...ve seen sites that bring my powerhouse of a machine to it's knees by Flash based ads. These are admittedly badly done flash ads, but it is flash. Now on a mobile phone an ad that can cause the cpu to spike to 100% is not good and I stand by SJ assertion that Flash is harmful. –...

...tools and give good reasons to use them instead of good-old relational databases? In my opinion, most applications rarely use the full power of SQL--it would be interesting to see how to build an SQL-free application. ...

... git clone are: Receive a "pack" file of all the objects in the repo database Create an index file for the received pack Check out the head revision (for a non-bare repo, obviously) "Resolving deltas" is the message shown for the second stage, indexing the pack file ("git index-pack"). Pack fil...

...for those letters I actually tried to IDN approach few years ago in a Yii based project (horrible framework, IMHO). I encountered both of the above mentioned problems before scraping that solution. Also, I suspect that it might be an attack vector. Available options ... as I see them. Basically you...

...ething that doesn't break "caller code". In other words: assume that the base bar() is supposed to return int. Then a subclass could return short - but not long because callers will be fine dealing with a short value, but not a long! ...

... Racket is ultimately based on R5RS, and not R6RS and not a strict superset of either. I don't think it can be called 'Scheme' because it's not backwards compatible with any Scheme standard. Most implementations offer extensions, but are otherwis...

I created a database with the name of hrms . Now I need to change database name to sunhrm . But, It is disabled in MySQL workbench. Can I do that on the Linux server itself? ...

...a number of the answers a restatement of the problem as a map of 1 2-digit base 4 number N(one,two) where one is digit 1, two is digit 2, and N = 4*one + two; N = {0,1,2,...,15} -- sixteen different values, that's important. The output of the function is one 1-digit base 4 number {0,1,2,3} -- 4 diff...

... a few properties common to all pages, one way to accomplish this is use a base view model and have all other view models inherit from it. Then, the _Layout can use the base view model and the common properties. The downside (which is subjective) is that all view models must inherit from the base vi...

...'s why. Coding for the exception Do you code for the 1% chance your database is going to change from one technology to another? If you're thinking about your business's future state and say yes that's a possibility then a) they must have a lot of money to afford to do a migration to another DB te...