...oes not implement Comparable ? This means that you cannot sort Number s with Collections.sort which seems to me a little strange. ...

I am currently investigating options for working with the canvas in a new HTML 5 application, and was wondering what is the current state of the art in HTML canvas JavaScript libraries and frameworks? ...

I'm designing an algorithm to do the following: Given array A[1... n] , for every i < j , find all inversion pairs such that A[i] > A[j] . I'm using merge sort and copying array A to array B and then comparing the two arrays, but I'm having a difficult time seeing how I can use this to find...

Quite often it is the case that you're writing a project of some kind, and after a while it becomes clear that some component of the project is actually useful as a standalone component (a library, perhaps). If you've had that idea from early on, then there's a fair chance that most of that code is ...

...nter to a particular type (say int , char , float , ..) is incremented, its value is increased by the size of that data type. If a void pointer which points to data of size x is incremented, how does it get to point x bytes ahead? How does the compiler know to add x to value of the pointe...

I am new to symfony2 and reading symblog . In third chapter while trying with data-fixtures I tried the command: 36 Answe...

...families) that the browser can show? (I want to give the user a dropdown with a list of all available fonts, and allow the user to choose a font.) I'd prefer not to have to hardcode this list ahead of time or send it down from the server. (Intuitively, it seems like the browser should know what fo...

I have a view that needs to have its frame manipulated programmatically - it's a kind of document view that wraps to its content which is then scrolled and zoomed around a superview by manipulating the frame origin. Autolayout fights with this at runtime. ...

... No, it's not like any of those things. It's simply the dynamic replacement of attributes at runtime. For instance, consider a class that has a method get_data. This method does an external lookup (on a database or web API, for e...

...ody say that since binary search halves the input required to search hence it is log(n) algorithm. Since I am not from a mathematics background I am not able to relate to it. Can somebody explain it in a little more detail? does it have to do something with the logarithmic series? ...