...sadvantages of using inline functions in C++? I see that it only increases performance for the code that the compiler outputs, but with today's optimized compilers, fast CPUs, huge memory etc. (not like in the 1980< where memory was scarce and everything had to fit in 100KB of memory) what advantage...

I'm a first year CS student and I work part time for my dad's small business. I don't have any experience in real world application development. I have written scripts in Python, some coursework in C, but nothing like this. ...

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... It's a limitation of many underlying processors. It can usually be worked around by doing 4 inefficient single byte fetches rather than one efficient word fetch, but many language specifiers decided it would be easier just to outlaw them and force everything to...

... designers of java.lang.Object telling us, we have to base our answers on opinion. There's a few questions which can be asked which may help clear it up. Would any of the methods of Object benefit from being abstract? It could be argued that some of the methods would benefit from this. Take hashCo...

I work for a tech company that does more prototyping than product shipment. I just got asked what's the difference between C# and F#, why did MS create F# and what scenarios would it be better than C#. ...

If you have one billion numbers and one hundred computers, what is the best way to locate the median of these numbers? 25 A...

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I've been reading about the OCP principal and how to use the strategy pattern to accomplish this. 17 Answers ...

I'm new at the branching complexities of Git. I always work on a single branch and commit changes and then periodically push to my remote origin. ...