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::This is a label that acts as a comment The double-colon :: comment shown above is not documented as being a comment command, but it is a special case of a label that acts as a comment. Caution: when labels are used as comments within a bracketed code block or for command, the command processor...

It is also possible to use variables as comments. This can be useful to conditionally prevent commands being executed: @echo off setlocal if /i "%~1"=="update" (set _skip=) Else (set _skip=REM) %_skip% copy update.dat %_skip% echo Update applied ... When using the ab...

The batch file format does not have a block comment syntax, but there is an easy workaround for this. Normally each line of a batch file is read and then executed by the parser, but a goto statement can be used to jump past a block of plain text (which can be used as a block comment): @echo off ...

Environment variables can be defined before the meteor call, like so: PORT=4000 meteor NODE_ENV="staging" meteor

We can assert some predicate over a collection using _.some to check if there is at least one member of a collection that meets some criteria. This is great when writing business logic to assert certain conditions on a group of objects. For example, let's say you wanted to make sure at least one...

In medical imaging, spectroscopy, image processing, cryptography and other areas of science and engineering it is often the case that one wishes to compute multidimensional Fourier transforms of images. This is quite straightforward in Matlab: (multidimensional) images are just n-dimensional matrice...

A powerful alternative to virtualenv is Anaconda - a cross-platform, pip-like package manager bundled with features for quickly making and removing virtual environments. After installing Anaconda, here are some commands to get started: Create an environment conda create --name <envname> pyth...

Query syntax and method syntax are semantically identical, but many people find query syntax simpler and easier to read. Let’s say we need to retrieve all even items ordered in ascending order from a collection of numbers. C#: int[] numbers = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 }; // Query syntax: IEnumerab...

PostgreSQL and SQLite To create a temporary table local to the session: CREATE TEMP TABLE MyTable(...); SQL Server To create a temporary table local to the session: CREATE TABLE #TempPhysical(...); To create a temporary table visible to everyone: CREATE TABLE ##TempPhysicalVisibleToEveryo...

Sometimes we would like to pass into the template a template type without fixing its values. This is what template template parameters are created for. Very simple template template parameter examples: template <class T> struct Tag1 { }; template <class T> struct Tag2 { }; templ...

Visual Studio Code is an open-source and feature-rich code editor from Microsoft. To set it up it for NativeScript development, open the Command Palette (F1 or ⌘+Shift+P) and type ext install NativeScript. Once the NativeScript extension is installed, the debugger should allow you to set breakpoint...

Named Functions defmodule Math do # one way def add(a, b) do a + b end # another way def subtract(a, b), do: a - b end iex> Math.add(2, 3) 5 :ok iex> Math.subtract(5, 2) 3 :ok Private Functions defmodule Math do def sum(a, b) do a...

You can pass default parameters to any named function using the syntax: param \\ value: defmodule Example do def func(p1, p2 \\ 2) do IO.inspect [p1, p2] end end Example.func("a") # => ["a", 2] Example.func("b", 4) # => ["b", ...

C99 Type Declaration A structure with at least one member may additionally contain a single array member of unspecified length at the end of the structure. This is called a flexible array member: struct ex1 { size_t foo; int flex[]; }; struct ex2_header { int foo; char...

Named vector can be created in several ways. With c: xc <- c('a' = 5, 'b' = 6, 'c' = 7, 'd' = 8) which results in: > xc a b c d 5 6 7 8 with list: xl <- list('a' = 5, 'b' = 6, 'c' = 7, 'd' = 8) which results in: > xl $a [1] 5 $b [1] 6 $c [1] 7 $d [1] 8 Wi...

NOW() + INTERVAL 1 DAY -- This time tomorrow CURDATE() - INTERVAL 4 DAY -- Midnight 4 mornings ago Show the mysql questions stored that were asked 3 to 10 hours ago (180 to 600 minutes ago): SELECT qId,askDate,minuteDiff FROM ( SELECT qId,askDate, TIMESTAMPDIFF(MINUTE,askDate,no...

Autoboxing can come at a substantial memory overhead. For example: Map<Integer, Integer> square = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>(); for(int i = 256; i < 1024; i++) { square.put(i, i * i); // Autoboxing of large integers } will typically consume substantial amount of memory (...