In similar manner to the similar question about generics. What was its first appearance, and how did spread to C? edit: corrected question based on Jon Skeet's answer (; is a terminator, not a separator) ...
I'm attempting to pull a list of files that changed during a range of dates from svn. Currently I'm using something like this: svn diff -r {2009-08-10}:{2009-08-20} --summarize d:/libs/trunk Is there a better way to do this? ...
Quite often I grep through my bash shell history to find old commands, filepaths, etc. Having identified the history number of interest, I would like to see a few lines of context on either side, i.e. view a subset of history lines. For example: $ history | grep ifconfig 8408 ifconfig eth0 8572 sudo ifconfig eth0 down I would like ...
The reply in my post states that pattern "*@he.com" is not a "correct regexp". Actually, it is not a regex at all, rather wildcard, things like: find . -iname ".gi*" The above example in Regex would be find . -iname "\.gi.*" Questions about Regex and Wildcards How can I use only Regex instead of wildcards? Where do you really n...
How did these keywords and concepts come to life? What were the forces and problems that made them appear? What was the first language to have them? Actually, it's not just about public/private/protected, but rather the whole range of keywords that enforce some rules (abstract, final, internal). But, please, do not assume things. Answe...
Is there a historic reason that periods are used instead of any other separator for software versions? One of our products was previously version 3.5, and now it's 3.08 -- I'm sure this was management saying that putting a leading zero would make it less confusing for our customers once we hit 3.10. But as a software developer, version...
If I want to essentially grep every line ever in the repository, is there a way to do it? I know this would take a long time for large projects. If not all inclusive, at least just the current branch and its entire source history? Edit: I should have been more explicit. What if I don't have direct access to the server that the CVS repo...
Anybody knows where the "://" or the "//" comes from in most URIs syntaxes? For instance, why isn't it written like "http:www.example.com"? ...
I have a simple flow A.html -> B.html -> C.html Now, B either 302's to C, or shows a progressbar, and then after some ajax call is done goes to C. When the user is on C, and they hit "Back" I want them to end up on A instead of B. If the page 302ed, then the back behavior is what I want, but otherwise they get that intermediary page....
I've heard that the term firmware comes from it being between hardware and software. I have also heard that it refers to software that comes from the firm (company) that builds the hardware. When was the term first used and what is the origin of the term? ...
I am using this plugin: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/history on this page: http://www.crtaci.info/index.php?autocom=majice I dont know why but it seems i cant figure out what to do to get this to work... Guess i need more sleep... :) ...
What was the first programming language that had user-accessibility? For instance, a programming language that offered itself to the public for experimentation, personal use, hobby, etc; something that wasn't just 'behind the scenes' and for use by big companies for putting together professional products and services. ...
Background: Powershell history is a lot more useful to me now that I have a way to save history across sessions. // run this every time right before you exit powershell get-history -Count $MaximumHistoryCount | export-clixml $IniFileCmdHistory; Now, I'm trying to prevent bash powershell from saving duplicate commands to my history. ...
Wondering whether it matters if a salt is unique for a single given user each time the password is changed, or whether it's not a big deal to reuse the same salt each time. I currently generate a new random string as the salt each time a given user updates the password. This way each time the user has a new password their is also a salt...
I would like to know what are some recommended movies on history of computers and programming. Thanks. ...
It's my favourite language at the moment and I'm interested in learning its history. ...
I have a page (page 1), dated February 2, 1989 that my former boss presented to me, outlining Niman's 13 Minimally Sufficient Commandments for programming. (He recognized that they were dated, making this more of an archaeology piece than a modern set of guidelines.) If you haven't seen them, they are as follows: Thou shalt adequatel...
Is there any way to export the history information from the Firefox address bar into a file? I have been searching for docs online, but cannot find a solution. Thanks! ...
We currently have 2 branches: /repo/branch/current_version /repo/branch/next_version current_version is a branch where all developers currently works. We starting a next version and created next_version branch from some point in current_version, while work on current_version is still continuing. In next_version we do some development...
What sequence of events made Django the most popular Python web framework .. and still so? Even though several other frameworks exist. Note: This question is neither argumentative nor confrontational. I merely asked for (objective) "the sequence of events" that lead to its actual popularity. Being aware of the dynamics of software accep...