I’ve started playing with Git and have come across the terms “upstream” and “downstream”. I’ve seen these before but never understood them fully. What do these terms mean in the context of SCMs (Software Configuration Management tools) and source code? 6 s 6
What is POSIX? I have read the Wikipedia article and I read it every time I encounter the term. The fact is that I never really understood what it is. Can anyone please explain it to me by explaining “the need for POSIX” too? 15 s 15 The most important things POSIX 7 defines C … Read more
Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. I’ve read the Wikipedia article on reactive programming. I’ve also read the small article on functional reactive programming. The descriptions are quite abstract. What does functional reactive programming (FRP) … Read more
I’ve seen these words a lot around Subversion (and I guess general repository) discussions. I have been using SVN for my projects for the last few years, but I’ve never grasped the complete concept of these directories. What do they mean? 1 16
When writing multithreaded applications, one of the most common problems experienced is race conditions. My questions to the community are: What is the race condition? How do you detect them? How do you handle them? Finally, how do you prevent them from occurring? 1 18
Having briefly looked at Haskell recently, what would be a brief, succinct, practical explanation as to what a monad essentially is? I have found most explanations I’ve come across to be fairly inaccessible and lacking in practical detail. 4 46
Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 1 year ago. Improve this question What is the difference between a proxy server and a reverse proxy server? 2 21 The previous answers were … Read more
Can someone provide a simple explanation of methods vs. functions in OOP context? 3 39
Want to improve this post? Provide detailed answers to this question, including citations and an explanation of why your answer is correct. without enough detail may be edited or deleted. When looking beyond the RAD (drag-drop and configure) way of building user interfaces that many tools encourage you are likely to come across three design … Read more
I understand JSON, but not JSONP. Wikipedia’s document on JSON is (was) the top search result for JSONP. It says this: JSONP or “JSON with padding” is a JSON extension wherein a prefix is specified as an input argument of the call itself. Huh? What call? That doesn’t make any sense to me. JSON is … Read more
