...principle, you will have long and descriptive variable and function names, etc. share | improve this answer | follow | ...

...ne char at a time from somewhere (i.e. a keyboard, or an encrypted source, etc.). -- If you have an actual string that contains the data anyway, then it's not secure. – BrainSlugs83 Jun 26 '17 at 23:28 ...

...y and how to set a background image . But how can I combine these two in order to set a transparent background image? 14 ...

...may or may not run in main thread. Already in main thread will run in that order, otherwise this can not be guaranteed. So you should avoid designing the code to run in specific order when refer to multithread programming. Try to use the async callback way. – ooops ...

...application, when converting a currency amount that the user has input, in order to deal with only integers inside the application: for instance, converting dollars and cents to cents. This method will avoid any rounding errors that might crop up unexpectedly when dealing with floating-point numbers...

...ything is multiplied by 2, so the representable numbers are the even ones, etc. Conversely, for the previous range from 2⁵¹ to 2⁵², the spacing is 0.5, etc. This is due to simply increasing|decreasing the base|radix 2|binary exponent in/of the 64-bit float value (which in turn explains the rar...

... native Object and have internal class names (such as HTMLElement, Window, etc). IE's proprietary ActiveXObject is another example of a host object. [object] is most commonly seen when alerting DOM objects in Internet Explorer 7 and lower, since they are host objects that have no internal class nam...

...s not a collection of entities, but a collection of simple types (Strings, etc.) or a collection of embeddable elements (class annotated with @Embeddable). It also means that the elements are completely owned by the containing entities: they're modified when the entity is modified, deleted when the...

...s possible to replace numbers by shortened name of days, such as MON, THU, etc: 0 - Sun Sunday 1 - Mon Monday 2 - Tue Tuesday 3 - Wed Wednesday 4 - Thu Thursday 5 - Fri Friday 6 - Sat Saturday 7 - Sun Sunday Graphically: ┌────────── ...

...on 3, my_list = [*my_set] to create a list from a set. Just note that the order of the elements in a list is generally lost when converting the list to a set since a set is inherently unordered. (One exception in CPython, though, seems to be if the list consists only of non-negative integers, but I...