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Permuted Congruential Generator

Here's a standalone random number generator that doesn't rely on rand() or similar library functions. Why would you want such a thing? Maybe you don't trust your platform's builtin random number generator, or maybe you want a reproducible source of randomness independent of any particular library ...

C Language • Random Number Generation

Redirecting standard output

> redirect the standard output (aka STDOUT) of the current command into a file or another descriptor. These examples write the output of the ls command into the file file.txt ls >file.txt > file.txt ls The target file is created if it doesn't exists, otherwise this file is truncated. ...

Bash • Redirection

Redirecting both STDOUT and STDERR

File descriptors like 0 and 1 are pointers. We change what file descriptors point to with redirection. >/dev/null means 1 points to /dev/null. First we point 1 (STDOUT) to /dev/null then point 2 (STDERR) to whatever 1 points to. # STDERR is redirect to STDOUT: redirected to /dev/null, # effect...

Bash • Redirection

Append vs Truncate

Truncate > Create specified file if it does not exist. Truncate (remove file's content) Write to file $ echo "first line" > /tmp/lines $ echo "second line" > /tmp/lines $ cat /tmp/lines second line Append >> Create specified file if it does not e...

Bash • Redirection

Extending Native Elements

It's possible to extent native elements, but their descendants don't get to have their own tag names. Instead, the is attribute is used to specify which subclass an element is supposed to use. For example, here's an extension of the <img> element which logs a message to the console when it's l...

JavaScript • Custom Elements

Interaction with Promises

6 Exceptions are to synchronous code what rejections are to promise-based asynchronous code. If an exception is thrown in a promise handler, its error will be automatically caught and used to reject the promise instead. Promise.resolve(5) .then(result => { throw new Error("I ...

JavaScript • Error Handling

Get Started in Xamarin Studio

Browse to File > New > Solution to bring you up the new project dialog Select Single View App and press Next Configure your app by setting your app name and organization ID, and press Next: Set your Project name and Solution name, or leave as the default name. Click Create to create...

Xamarin.iOS • Getting started with Xamarin.iOS

Float an Image Within Text

The most basic use of a float is having text wrap around an image. The below code will produce two paragraphs and an image, with the second paragraph flowing around the image. Notice that it is always content after the floated element that flows around the floated element. HTML: <p>Lorem ips...

CSS • Floats

Simple Two Fixed-Width Column Layout

A simple two-column layout consists of two fixed-width, floated elements. Note that the sidebar and content area are not the same height in this example. This is one of the tricky parts with multi-column layouts using floats, and requires workarounds to make multiple columns appear to be the same he...

CSS • Floats

Event Bubbling and Capturing

Events fired on DOM elements don't just affect the element they're targeting. Any of the target's ancestors in the DOM may also have a chance to react to the event. Consider the following document: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> </hea...

DOM • Events

List Literals

GHC's OverloadedLists extension allows you to construct list-like data structures with the list literal syntax. This allows you to Data.Map like this: > :set -XOverloadedLists > import qualified Data.Map as M > M.lookup "foo" [("foo", 1), ("bar", 2)] Just ...

Haskell Language • Overloaded Literals

Checking arithmetic with assert

a = 1 - Math.abs(1 - a % 2); // This will throw an error if my arithmetic above is wrong. assert a >= 0 && a <= 1 : "Calculated value of " + a + " is outside of expected bounds"; return a;

Java Language • Asserting

Downloading a file via curl

This downloads a file from the Dropbox API at the remote path /Homework/math/Prime_Numbers.txt to the local path Prime_Numbers.txt in the current folder: curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download \ --header "Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>" \ --head...