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What’s Your Favorite Harmless Computer Practical Joke?
Window's guys, seem to have all the fun .
So what about the Mac, what practical jokes can you play on people who own one?
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(This is most impressive when using the "Genie" minimization.
Freezes the window in a contorted state.
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When and why should abstract classes be used? I would like to see some practical examples of their uses. Also, what is the difference between abstract classes and interfaces?
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The Java™ Tutorials
A practical example? How about a contrived example while I wait for a process.
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Wikipedia has a good summary about the various design patterns. Which ones have you used at most in practice and what are your experiences? When should one go for a pattern and when not ?
Edit: A cool C# based link with practical DP examples ( tnx to ...
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Take a look at Gamma's Book "Design Pattern"
The "Java the Wikipedia has code for patterns
Luis
Answering the title: "What practical experiences...?", I'd say others e.g, In games programming....
Existing code for Singleton, Proxy, State, etc.
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Do you know any example of an esoteric language used to write any practical-use, real-world program? Is there any, however obscure, domain of computer science where an esoteric language has actually been proven useful for solving a specific problem?
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I am sure, there are others....
All the practical benefits can be gathered if you use an esoteric language like brain****.
Understanding Turing machine, Computability and having a practical sense of what is implied by the theory of computation.
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Someone is trying to sell Lisp to me, as a super powerful language that can do everything ever, and then some.
Can anyone provide a practical code example of Lisp's power?
(Preferably alongside equivalent logic coded in a regular language.)
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When I admit it is not necessarily....
I have short, practical examples of Lisp's power because it really shines only in non-trivial code.
You could also try Practical Common Lisp (also fully available on the web).
From the link I just gave.
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A couple of months ago, I returned from lunch to find that typing any key launched a random application. As I always lock my machine before walking away from it, my first thought was that a co-worker was playing a practical joke on me. As it turned out...
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I do, however, find the keyboard driver for Keyboard for Blondes mildly showing him the bogus code .
Every day, at the end of the day, he'd pick up of computer practical jokes.
Of a long term practical joke on a non-technical user.
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Practical Extension of a Lake States Tree Height Model
by Don C. Bragg, NORTH. J. APPL. FOR. 25(4) 2008, pp. 186- 194
http://www.nativetreesociety.org/specialreports/bragg/Bragg2008E.pdf
By adapting data from...
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I am working on trying to better understand the jQuery.each() method. Here's an example I came up with, not very practical, but it performs an action on each selected item from the selected set of elements returned:
// Loop over each link. $( "#links ...
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: $('addr', this).text(), city: $('city', this).text(), state: $('state', this).text(), zip: $('zip.
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I am developing a website using CodeIgniter and PHP. Some of my friends suggest I start using Subversion to take care of my organization. Could someone give me a basic explanation of what SVN is without the jargon and also if it is practical for a framework...
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state or restore a copy in case of a disk crash (SVN must be on another computer in this case.
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I understand what System.WeakReference does, but what I can't seem to grasp is a practical example of what it might be useful for. The class itself seems to me to be, well, a hack. It seems to me that there are other, better means of solving a problem...
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Remember, mixins are static, so when you use a static object to attach state to a non-static one, you never know how long.
I use weak reference for state-keeping in mixins.
Thanks, all.
On MSDN.
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