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Passing a context with a timeout (or with a cancel function) to a long running function can be used to cancel that functions work: ctx, _ := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 200*time.Millisecond) for { select { case <-ctx.Done(): return ctx.Err() default: ...

The components in angularJS can be visualised as a custom directive (< html > this in an HTML directive, and something like this will be a custom directive < ANYTHING >). A component contains a view and a controller. Controller contains the business logic which is binded with an view , w...

In addition to functional constructs such as Try, Option and Either for error handling, Scala also supports a syntax similar to Java's, using a try-catch clause (with a potential finally block as well). The catch clause is a pattern match: try { // ... might throw exception } catch { case i...

A common problem is having a collection of items that all need to meet a certain criteria. In the example below we have collected two items for a diet plan and we want to check that the diet doesn't contain any unhealthy food. // First we create a collection $diet = collect([ ['name' => ...

You will often find yourself with a collection of data where you are only interested in parts of the data. In the example below we got a list of participants at an event and we want to provide a the tour guide with a simple list of names. // First we collect the participants $participants = colle...

Often you need to change the way a set of data is structured and manipulate certain values. In the example below we got a collection of books with an attached discount amount. But we much rather have a list of books with a price that's already discounted. $books = [ ['title' => 'The Pragma...

Collections also provide you with an easy way to do simple statistical calculations. $books = [ ['title' => 'The Pragmatic Programmer', 'price' => 20], ['title' => 'Continuous Delivery', 'price' => 30], ['title' => 'The Clean Coder', 'price' => 10], ] $min = col...

In Vue.js, every component instance has its own isolated scope, which means that if a parent component has a child component - the child component has its own isolated scope and the parent component has its own isolated scope. For any medium to large size app, following best practices conventions p...

Sometimes you will have a grid of subplots, and you want to have a single legend that describes all the lines for each of the subplots as in the following image. In order to do this, you will need to create a global legend for the figure instead of creating a legend at the axes level (which wil...

pacman is a simple package manager for R. pacman allows a user to compactly load all desired packages, installing any which are missing (and their dependencies), with a single command, p_load. pacman does not require the user to type quotation marks around a package name. Basic usage is as follows:...

Sometimes a RecyclerView will need to use several types of Views to be displayed in the list shown in the UI, and each View needs a different layout xml to be inflated. For this issue, you may use different ViewHolders in single Adapter, by using a special method in RecyclerView - getItemViewType(i...

Simple Single Port RAM with one address for read/write operations. module ram_single #( parameter DATA_WIDTH=8, //width of data bus parameter ADDR_WIDTH=8 //width of addresses buses )( input [(DATA_WIDTH-1):0] data, //data to be written input [(ADDR_WIDTH-1):0] ad...

Member member/2 has signature member(?Elem, ?List) and denotes true if Elem is a member of List. This predicate can be used to access variables in a list, where different solutions are retrieved through backtracking. Example queries: ?- member(X, [1,2,3]). X = 1 ; X = 2 ; X = 3. ?- member(X...

The ref keyword for callers of methods is now optional when calling into methods supplied by COM interfaces. Given a COM method with the signature void Increment(ref int x); the invocation can now be written as either Increment(0); // no need for "ref" or a place holder variable any m...

A stream is an object that provides a low-level means to transfer data. They themselves do not act as data containers. The data that we deal with is in form of byte array(byte []). The functions for reading and writing are all byte orientated, e.g. WriteByte(). There are no functions for dealing w...

If we try to change an object on the UI thread from a different thread we will get a cross-thread operation exception: Private Sub Button_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyButton.Click ' Cross thread-operation exception as the assignment is executed on a different thread '...

Using sw As New System.IO.StreamWriter("path\to\file.txt") sw.WriteLine("Hello world") End Using The use of a Using block is recommended good practice when using an object that Implements IDisposable

Most times when people have to reverse a string, they do it more or less like this: char[] a = s.ToCharArray(); System.Array.Reverse(a); string r = new string(a); However, what these people don't realize is that this is actually wrong. And I don't mean because of the missing NULL check. It ...

Now that we have all those pieces put together, you should now be able to make calls like the following from within your app: Foo.identify('John'); Foo.record_action_on_item('view', "HackerNews'); Obviously you'll want to adjust function names, arguments, urls, and the like, to create the ...

You update all rows in table by simply providing a column_name = value: UPDATE person SET planet = 'Earth';