... When you write an implementation file (.cpp, .cxx, etc) your compiler generates a translation unit. This is the source file from your implementation plus all the headers you #included in it. Internal linkage refers to everything only ...

I'm learning Go but I feel it is a bit annoying that when compiling, I should not leave any variable or package unused. 8 ...

...xclusively and converting to/from the Qt equivalents, but I have already switched to QString and I find that I'm using Qt's containers more and more. When it comes to strings, QString offers much more complete functionality compared to std::basic_string and it is completely Unicode aware. It also o...

When should certain image file types be used when building websites or interfaces, etc? 13 Answers ...

...ate into our build environment? For PNGs I'm currently using PNGOUT , and it generally saves around 40% bandwidth/image size. ...

Part of a website's JSON response had this (... added for context): 11 Answers 11 ...

... No. The content-type should be whatever it is known to be, if you know it. application/octet-stream is defined as "arbitrary binary data" in RFC 2046, and there's a definite overlap here of it being appropriate for entities whose sole intended purpose is to be save...

I have a very long conditional statement like the following: 15 Answers 15 ...

... I registered with stackoverflow just for the purpose of commenting on the mostly voted answer on top. The bad thing is stackoverflow does not allow new members to post comments. So I have to make this comment more look like an answer. Ror...

...tring of uppercase characters. Is some old/popular flavor of SQL case-sensitive or something? 16 Answers ...