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It would also be useful to provide a way to convert the other way around (from a date to epoch). I actually built a similar tool a while ago: http://timeconv.io/ that's similar to …

Is there an advantage to overriding the man command over the approach of just directly exporting the env variables in bashrc? I currently do the latter and I don't override the man…

Type erasure introduces limitations on what you can do at runtime that forces a developer to write code to workaround it. For example, in Java you can't write a generic method that…

Doesn't Airbnb fall in the same category? Renting out your property for a few days to complete strangers requires a lot of trust, and yet from what I can tell, Airbnb seems to have…

Not entirely sure, but according to its github page[1], you can have it use the OpenJDK classes for a "conventional JVM". [1] https://github.com/ReadyTalk/avian#building-with-the-o…

An example where kill -9 can screw things up is killing a database process (e.g. MySQL, mongo, etc). Killing it with -9 will most likely lead to data corruption/loss, as the proces…

> If I understand WebRTC correctly, once the link is established, all communication is peer to peer. In general, it's peer-to-peer, but for clients that can't communicate peer-to-p…

It's based on the WebRTC standard, so in general, yes it's peer-to-peer. However, in cases where the peer-to-peer connection cannot be established (e.g. a user behind symmetric NAT…

This is pretty cool. On a similar note, anyone know of equivalent options for iOS? I see a few open source implementations, but none that are actively developed. There's SocketRock…

I disagree. Yes, MVC provides a pattern that allows views to be input to the user, but if it doesn't make sense for your app, it's perfectly fine to make the view "read-only" and s…