... How Java maps threads to OS threads, how that maps threads to CPU threads etc.? I'm asking because creating 150 threads within in ONE JRE only makes sense if you have massive CPU cores/threads underneath, which most likely is not the case. Depending on the OS and RAM in use, creating more than n th...

... do not allow authors to specify distinct style (colors, fonts, alignment, etc.) for the list marker or adjust its position This method is also not suitable for the <img> tag as the conversion cannot be made between element types, and here's the limited, non compliant hack that doesn't work...

...s Access the network Hit a database Use the file system Spin up a thread etc. Any kind of dependency that is slow / hard to understand / initialise / manipulate should be stubbed/mocked/whatevered using the appropriate techniques so you can focus on what the unit of code is doing, not what its d...

... Sure, in a "flat" script with no function calls, procedures, triggers, etc. and if you're just going to execute that simple script, or a limited set of commands and then end the session (thereby destroying your globals). It that case, go ahead and use them if you want. But DO NOT use them insi...

... learn of things like the various normal forms (1st, 2nd, 3rd, Boyce-Codd, etc.), and we learn about different types of keys (primary, foreign, alternate, unique, etc.) and how these things fit together to design a database. And we learn the rudiments of SQL as well as manipulating both structure a...

...istent data, stop animations and other things that may be consuming CPU, etc. Implementations of this method must be very quick because the next activity will not be resumed until this method returns. Followed by either onResume() if the activity returns back to the front, or onStop() if it ...

...l configurations (i.e. List separator) Can't apply formatting, formulas, etc HTML Pros: Still pretty Simple Supports simple formating and formulas Cons: You have to name the file as xls and Excel may warn you about opening a non native Excel file One worksheet per workbook OpenXML (O...

...put/output (which is not seekable unless buffered), sockets, serial ports, etc. So you can write code which says either "I want some data, and I don't care where it comes from or how it got here", or "I'll produce some data, and it's entirely up to my caller what happens to it". The former takes an ...

... want to do is just put those types of command dependencies for build/test etc. in the devDependencies section of your package.json. Anytime you use something from scripts in package.json your devDependencies commands (in node_modules/.bin) act as if they are in your path. For example: npm i --save...

...pp. This is a slight enhancement over Martin's solution, which deferred fetching the config until after the document is ready. As far as I know, there is no reason to delay the $http call for that. Unit Testing Note: I have discovered this solution does not work well when unit-testing when the ...