I am not sure whether mergestrategy or exclude jars is the best option here. Any help with how do I proceed further with this error will be great! ...

What would be the best way in Python to determine whether a directory is writeable for the user executing the script? Since this will likely involve using the os module I should mention I'm running it under a *nix environment. ...

I'm making an Android app, and need to call the phone's contact list. I need to call the contacts list function, pick a contact, then return to my app with the contact's name. Here's the code I got on the internet, but it doesnt work. ...

I am trying to git clone the LibreOffice codebase, but at the moment I have an internet connection of about 300kbps and it's just anything but stable. I can get the connection back any moment, but then the git clone process already stopped working, and no way to get it running again. Is there some w...

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So if I have to choose between a hash table or a prefix tree what are the discriminating factors that would lead me to choose one over the other. From my own naive point of view it seems as though using a trie has some extra overhead since it isn't stored as an array but that in terms of run time (a...

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From using a number of programming languages and libraries I have noticed various terms used for the total number of elements in a collection. ...

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I want a command (or probably an option to cp) that creates the destination directory if it does not exist. 21 Answers ...