Does anyone remember years ago in magazines like Byte where people competed to produce the most functional piece of code written in a single line of code? I remember games like Pole Position with scrollng text, etc. and fractal graphics being done this way. Granted modern languages like C# and Java an endless amount in one statement, d...
Was discussing over lunch why several ports of languages to the .net framework are prefixed with 'Iron'. e.g. IronPython IronRuby IronLisp IronScheme IronPHP Anyone out there know? (language list sourced from http://www.dotnetpowered.com/languages.aspx) ...
When my team first started out with SVN we all just used our first names when committing to the repository, however, now that our team has grown, we are running into issues because we just hired a second 'Mike'. What we would like to do is change everybody's usernames to be the same as the username on their computer (first name initial ...
Is there a way of using raw_input without leaving a sign in the readline history, so that it don't show when tab-completing? ...
Most UNIX C compilers link executables by default to a file called "a.out". Why? Is this a written standard or just de-facto standard behavior? What would break if these compilers would just produce an error message (or use a different default name) instead of producing "a.out"? ...
Hi all, I was just wondering for sites like stackoverflow and wikipedia, they stores history of edits indefinitely and allows user to roll back the edits. Can someone recommend any resources/books/articles regarding how to do this using any suitable technology (such as databases etc) Thanks a lot! ...
Hi all I am now using tab on jquery ui 1.7.2 , is it support back button or bookmarking?? so i need help about this..................... thanks ...
I am looking for a way to join two revision histories for a single file. One of our projects was tracked via RCS. Now, this project lives in CVS. It was initially committed as a new project. As a result, the CVS history does not show the older revisions that were tracked via RCS. For example, suppose file foo.c was revised 10 times ...
Just like the question title says, I'd like to save, for instance, my find-file and Meta-X history in Emacs' mini-buffer so I can recall commands later in a different session. Is there a way to do this? ...
I read some where that the .net runtime was effectively Visual Basic 6 (albeit completely re-written) How true is this? or is this just another .net Myth? Darknight ...
What's the easiest way to determine when a property was set on a file or folder? Basically, I'm looking for an equivalent of "svn blame" that works on properties. The log subcommand enables one to get the complete history of a file or folder, including when the properties have been modified. However, it doesn't distinguish between a pro...
Possible Duplicate: What is the origin of the term heap for the free store? Why is the heap called the heap? I mean the bit of memory which we dynamically allocate bits of. ...
I am currently playing around with the idea of having history tables for some of my tables in my database. Basically I have the main table and a copy of that table with a modified date and an action column to store what action was preformed eg Update,Delete and Insert. So far I can think of three different places that you can do the hi...
This is in reference to Stack Overflow Podcast #65. Assume a typical 60's or 70's server computer with, say, 256k main memory. How large (compiled) COBOL programs could such a machine run at maximum? How severely would this limit the complexity and capabilities of COBOL programs, assuming that the programs are not deliberately made mo...
Traditional assembler, and higher level compilers work with several memory segments, according to intended use. Hence, there is a data segment, a stack segment, a bss, and text segment. The text segment is also called the code segment. Text segment? For machine code? I have asked all the old-timers I could find, how something as unr...
From Wikipedia: The Last One was a unique software program in 1981 which took input from a user and generated a program in BASIC which could then be run. It is an example of a program generator. The software was not a programming language, since unlike most programming languages, programs were generated by the us...
Here's a blast from the past: what does "REM", the comment marker, stand for in BASIC? What's the origin of this non-obvious term? ...
Hi all! Say, I have var1 and var2 both with a string value. Var2 is a revision of var1 with minor changes: var1: Hello, world1 var2: Bye bye, world! Now I want this output: <span class="removed">Hello</span> <span class="new">Bye bye</span>, world<span class="removed">1</span><span class="new">!</span> much like SO's way. How c...
I have to rewrite the history of my repository because it contains some credentials. As I have to amend the root commit I followed the instructions from Git Faq. My problem is though that I have two branches and several tags already in the repository and I'd like that my history rewrite to apply to those too. The repo isn't public yet, s...
I first came across exceptions with ADA 83. As far as I know, the designers of ADA invented the concept of exceptions. Is this true, or did any programming language that came before use exceptions too? ...