...ough decomposition of i += i++ to the parts it is made of requires one to know that both += and ++ are not atomic (that is, neither one is a single operation), even if they look like they are. The way these are implemented involve temporary variables, copies of i before the operations take place - o...

...imitations I was encountering (which may well have been limitations of my knowledge) and when I read a blog suggesting to ditch XSLT and just write your own XML-to-whatever parser in your language of choice, I eagerly jumped onto that and it's worked out brilliantly. ...

...cpython! You do not need any jni or jna or swig or .... You don't need to know any c, or c++. kool huh? Advantages: Access to cpython, not as difficult as following methods Disadvantages: Cannot change the member data of java objects directly from python. Is somewhat indirect, (jython is middle man)...

... This answer was great as of 2012, but now CSS masks and/or filters have been supported in all browsers for some time. I recommend that anyone reading this now check out the links in widged's answer below or just skip to CSS Masks here, which is a really easy solu...

... Edit: It's been a couple years now, and browsers have evolved. @Luxiyalu's answer is the way to go --Old Answer-- I too think it is impossible (at this time). But why do you need to change the hash value if you are not going to use it? I believe the ma...

...a 5,000+ line project in Python. It has about 7 base modules. As far as I know, In order to use autodoc I need to write code like this for each file in my project: ...

... NOTE: This advice is now out-dated as per comment since Git 1.6.1. Git used to behave this way, and no longer does. Git by default attempts to store symlinks instead of following them (for compactness, and it's generally what people want). Ho...

...I set "/Users/path/to/local/copy" to my local root directory, but I don't know if that's right or if there's more to do. Any thoughts? I'm on OSX10.8 ...

...py makemigrations -n drop_all_tables my_app_to_remove The directory looks now like this: my_app_to_remove/ my_app_to_remove/__init__.py my_app_to_remove/migrations my_app_to_remove/migrations/0001_initial.py my_app_to_remove/migrations/.... my_app_to_remove/migrations/0030_drop_all_tables.py my_ap...

...fic example refers to a global gitignore which I should have mentioned. I know I can force add items, but I'll have to do that if any new items are added, as well as initially for each new repository. Does the .keep ensure the contents are not ignored? – Wil Ma...