Can I run HTML files directly from GitHub, instead of just viewing their source?
If I have a `.html` file in a GitHub repository, e.g. for running a a set of JavaScript tests, is there any way I can view that page directly—thus running the tests? For example, could I somehow actu...
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java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
I am getting this error in a program that creates several (hundreds of thousands) HashMap objects with a few (15-20) text entries each. These Strings have all to be collected (without breaking up into...
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- 10 Aug at 14:17
SET versus SELECT when assigning variables?
What are the differences between the `SET` and `SELECT` statements when assigning variables in T-SQL?
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- 15 Jun at 09:23
Android global variable
How can I create global variable keep remain values around the life cycle of the application regardless which activity running.
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- 7 Jun at 09:19
ROW_NUMBER() in MySQL
Is there a nice way in MySQL to replicate the SQL Server function `ROW_NUMBER()`? For example: ``` SELECT col1, col2, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY col1, col2 ORDER BY col3 DESC) AS intR...
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- 21 May at 09:20
How can I find all of the distinct file extensions in a folder hierarchy?
On a Linux machine I would like to traverse a folder hierarchy and get a list of all of the distinct file extensions within it. What would be the best way to achieve this from a shell?
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- 3 Dec at 19:18
Simple proof that GUID is not unique
I'd like to prove that a GUID is not unique in a simple test program. I expected the following code to run for hours, but it's not working. How can I make it work? ``` BigInteger begin = new BigInteg...
Counting DISTINCT over multiple columns
Is there a better way of doing a query like this: ``` SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (SELECT DISTINCT DocumentId, DocumentSessionId FROM DocumentOutputItems) AS internalQuery ``` I need to count the n...
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- 6 Jan at 17:6
C# : 'is' keyword and checking for Not
This is a silly question, but you can use this code to check if something is a particular type... ``` if (child is IContainer) { //.... ``` Is there a more elegant way to check for the "NOT" instan...
Using CSS to affect div style inside iframe
Is it possible to change styles of a div that resides inside an iframe on the page using CSS only?
How can I create a temp file with a specific extension with .NET?
I need to generate a unique temporary file with a .csv extension. What I do right now is ``` string filepath = System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName().Replace(".tmp", ".csv"); ``` However, this doesn't guar...
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- 14 Oct at 11:56
Logging best practices
I'd like to get stories on how people are handling tracing and logging in real applications. Here are some questions that might help to explain your answer. What frameworks do you use? - - - - - ...
Is there an upside down caret character?
I have to maintain a large number of classic ASP pages, many of which have tabular data with no sort capabilities at all. Whatever order the original developer used in the database query is what you'r...
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- 4 Feb at 15:5
Make Iframe to fit 100% of container's remaining height
I want to design a web page with a banner and an iframe. I hope the iframe can fill all the remaining page height and be resized automatically as the browser is resizing. Is it possible to get it done...
Best practices with STDIN in Ruby?
I want to deal with the command line input in Ruby: ``` > cat input.txt | myprog.rb > myprog.rb < input.txt > myprog.rb arg1 arg2 arg3 ... ``` What is the best way to do it? In particular I want to...
Invert "if" statement to reduce nesting
When I ran [ReSharper](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReSharper) on my code, for example: ``` if (some condition) { Some code... } ``` ReSharper gave me the above warning ...
Oracle: how to UPSERT (update or insert into a table?)
The UPSERT operation either updates or inserts a row in a table, depending if the table already has a row that matches the data: ``` if table t has a row exists that has key X: update t set mystu...
Access to Modified Closure
``` string [] files = new string[2]; files[0] = "ThinkFarAhead.Example.Settings.Configuration_Local.xml"; files[1] = "ThinkFarAhead.Example.Settings.Configuration_Global.xml"; //Resharper complains t...
How do I get my C# program to sleep for 50 milliseconds?
How do I get my C# program to sleep (pause execution) for 50 milliseconds?
How do I get the coordinates of a mouse click on a canvas element?
What's the simplest way to add a click event handler to a canvas element that will return the x and y coordinates of the click (relative to the canvas element)? No legacy browser compatibility requir...
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I get a "An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format" error on a SQL Server replication project
The exact error is as follows > Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication, Version=9.0.242.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' or one of its dependencies. ...
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- 6 Sep at 23:53
Error message "DevTools failed to load SourceMap: Could not load content for chrome-extension://..."
I'm trying to display an image selected from the local machine and I need the location of that image for a JavaScript function. But I'm unable to get the location. To get the image location, I tried u...
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- 31 Jan at 04:57
Dockerfile if else condition with external arguments
I have dockerfile ``` FROM centos:7 ENV foo=42 ``` then I build it ``` docker build -t my_docker . ``` and run it. ``` docker run -it -d my_docker ``` Is it possible to pass arguments from ...
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- 27 Apr at 10:5
Sizing elements to percentage of screen width/height
Is there a simple (non-LayoutBuilder) way to size an element relative to screen size (width/height)? For example: how do I set the width of a CardView to be 65% of the screen width. It can't be done ...
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- 26 Dec at 09:41
check if a key exists in a bucket in s3 using boto3
I would like to know if a key exists in boto3. I can loop the bucket contents and check the key if it matches. But that seems longer and an overkill. Boto3 official docs explicitly state how to do th...