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A Service is a component which runs in the background (on the UI thread) without direct interaction with the user. An unbound Service is just started, and is not bound to the lifecycle of any Activity. To start a Service you can do as shown in the example below: // This Intent will be used to star...

A callback is a method that gets called at specific moments of an object's lifecycle (right before or after creation, deletion, update, validation, saving or loading from the database). For instance, say you have a listing that expires within 30 days of creation. One way to do that is like this: ...

The Python Standard Library includes an interactive debugging library called pdb. pdb has extensive capabilities, the most commonly used being the ability to 'step-through' a program. To immediately enter into step-through debugging use: python -m pdb <my_file.py> This will start the debu...

import pandas as pd df = pd.DataFrame({'Sex': ['M', 'M', 'F', 'M', 'F', 'F', 'M', 'M', 'F', 'F'], 'Age': [20, 19, 17, 35, 22, 22, 12, 15, 17, 22], 'Heart Disease': ['Y', 'N', 'Y', 'N', 'N', 'Y', 'N', 'Y', 'N', 'Y']}) df Age Heart Disease Sex 0 20 ...

Normal types, like String, are not nullable. To make them able to hold null values, you have to explicitly denote that by putting a ? behind them: String? var string : String = "Hello World!" var nullableString: String? = null string = nullableString // Compiler error: Can't...

When working with regular expressions one modifier for PCRE is g for global match. In R matching and replacement functions have two version: first match and global match: sub(pattern,replacement,text) will replace the first occurrence of pattern by replacement in text gsub(pattern,replace...

Running the command: grep sam someFile.txt When someFile.txt contains: fred 14 m foo sam 68 m bar christina 83 f baz bob 22 m qux Sam 41 m quux Will produce this output: sam 68 m bar

The bitwise NOT (~) performs a NOT operation on each bit in a value. Syntax: ~expression Returns: a Number. Description The truth table for the NOT operation is: aNOT a01101337 (base 10) = 0000010100111001 (base 2) ~1337 (base 10) = 1111101011000110 (base 2) = -1338 (base 10) A bit...

It's often useful to combine multiple plot types in one graph (for example a Barplot next to a Scatterplot.) R makes this easy with the help of the functions par() and layout(). par() par uses the arguments mfrow or mfcol to create a matrix of nrows and ncols c(nrows, ncols) which will serve as a ...

set(my_global_string "a string value" CACHE STRING "a description about the string variable") set(my_global_bool TRUE CACHE BOOL "a description on the boolean cache entry") In case a cached variable is already defined in the cache when CMake processes the ...

set(my_variable "the value is a string") By default, a local variable is only defined in the current directory and any subdirectories added through the add_subdirectory command. To extend the scope of a variable there are two possibilities: CACHE it, which will make it globally av...

macro(set_my_variable _INPUT) if("${_INPUT}" STREQUAL "Foo") set(my_output_variable "foo") else() set(my_output_variable "bar") endif() endmacro(set_my_variable) Use the macro: set_my_variable("Foo") message(STATUS ${my_outpu...

macro(set_custom_variable _OUT_VAR) set(${_OUT_VAR} "Foo") endmacro(set_custom_variable) Use it with set_custom_variable(my_foo) message(STATUS ${my_foo}) which will print -- Foo

The difference between size and count is: size counts NaN values, count does not. df = pd.DataFrame( {"Name":["Alice", "Bob", "Mallory", "Mallory", "Bob" , "Mallory"], "City":["Seattle", &q...

A method defined in an interface is by default public abstract. When an abstract class implements an interface, any methods which are defined in the interface do not have to be implemented by the abstract class. This is because a class that is declared abstract can contain abstract method declaratio...

Sometimes developers write some code that desires access to stage, or Flash stage, to add listeners. It can work for the first time, then all of a sudden fail to work and produce the error 1009. The code in question can even be on the timeline, as it's the first initiative to add code there, and man...

var a:Object; trace(a); // null trace(a.b); // Error 1009 Here, an object reference is declared, but is never assigned a value, be it with new or assignment of a non-null value. Requesting its properties or method results in a 1009 error.

sqldf() from the package sqldf allows the use of SQLite queries to select and manipulate data in R. SQL queries are entered as character strings. To select the first 10 rows of the "diamonds" dataset from the package ggplot2, for example: data("diamonds") head(diamonds) #...

The JsonPipe can be used for debugging the state of any given internal. Code @Component({ selector: 'json-example', template: `<div> <p>Without JSON pipe:</p> <pre>{{object}}</pre> <p>With JSON pipe:</p> <pre>{{object | json...

This validation restricts the insertion of only numeric values. class Player < ApplicationRecord validates :points, numericality: true validates :games_played, numericality: { only_integer: true } end Besides :only_integer, this helper also accepts the following options to add constrai...