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CoC? Code of Conduct? Churches of Christ? Call of Cthulhu?

> no languages with mutable state that I know of offer concurrent integer and concurrent structs Java does for integer http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurren.…

It probably does, it's just an unintuitive interface. Read the explanation on the page by clicking the question mark (or read my explanation here on HN in response to the now delet…

I know, I had trouble with that as well, but then I read the explanations you get if you click the question mark in the upper right corner. I will try my own explanation here. Type…

No, they are different companies. Also, Nokia bought Scalado last year: http://www.scalado.com/display/en/2012-06-14+Nokia+to+acquir...

If you hover that button with your mouse pointer you can read the following explanation: Send three "heap-minimize" notifications in a row. Each notification triggers a global garb…

If you view the page with Firefox version <= 22, that paragraph is blinking, very easy to notice :-) (annoyingly easy!)

That was supposed to be switched on by default in Firefox 22, but Mozilla noticed some issue with it. The feature is there in FF22, but you have to switch it on yourself. If you yo…

I know that the release notes still says Firefox Beta when I submit this, but my browser just updated itself to version 23. The beta release notes usually are pretty accurate when …

Well, what kind of book has a collection of recipes? A cookbook, right? :-) I haven't used any edition of the Python cookbook, but I've used the Perl cookbook and it's just like yo…

I don't think it's regional. I'm in Sweden and if I visit the Flash install page with IE I get Chrome as pre-selected and if I visit with Firefox I get the McAfee add-on. (And when…

I don't think you should have to do neither convincing the IT department nor refunding them. One part of their organization chose to order the Java applet solution from you and ano…

I noticed I got the Swedish URL. I tried to find an international or English URL, but I couldn't find it, I hope you get English text anyway. When I just visit that page it suggest…

They (as in Intel) don't say that, it was a rumour from "industry sources". Intel say that ``it remains committed to MeeGo''.

In the section "Be precise and informative about your problem" of the article there is a link to Simon Tatham's (PuTTY author) "How to Report Bugs Effectively": http://www.chiark.g…

> The note is really about the best way to specify a range/sequence of integers, not why we start from 0 as an index. Dijkstra deals with what index start with as well, but it come…

It didn't. Several people point this out in the comments.

Ok, the PyPy FAQ says: "Yes, PyPy has a GIL. Removing the GIL is very hard. The first problem is that our garbage collectors are not re-entrant." Is it really necessary for the GC …