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What is the meaning of “down-level”
What does the word down-level mean?
I read an article here and it says:
But the versions for some browsers (like IE 10) aren't within those
ranges any more. Therefore, ASP.NET sees them as ...
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“Release”, “free”, or “delete allocated memory”?
release the allocated memory.
free the allocated memory.
delete the allocated memory.
What are the differences between them?
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What's the meaning of boilerplate in programming?
I am not very clear about the word boilerplate when it comes to programming. How is it different to other similar terms such as template and prototype? I would appreciate some examples that clearly ...
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What does randomically mean?
I've just read an O’Reilly book and encoutered the word randomically. I highly suspect this is a made up word, but a quick google found it in use here, here, and here. Is this some obscure technical ...
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What is an 'Iron Ring Event'
In a recent podcast of .Net rocks (at 45 minutes 29 seconds), regarding the future of software craftsmanship, it is postulated that there will be an 'Iron Ring Event' (if I heard it correctly). From ...
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“Enclosure” vs. “attachment”
If I understand it correctly, one usually uses the term enclosure when referring to extra documents to e.g. a letter. But what if these extra items are not other documents and papers?
Say I have ...
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Precedence: and > or?
The question Precedence of “and” and “or” asks if there is any notion of precedence ordering in the English and it would seem not, based on the answers.
Regardless of that, if you saw the following ...
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Why pool of processes?
I hit the sentence:
The ProcessPoolExecutor class is an Executor subclass that uses a pool
of processes to execute calls asynchronously.
I was looking for the word pool which means swimming ...
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Meaning of “nulled” in reference to software [closed]
I've seen so many links which have this title:
ioncube php encoder nulled
What does it mean?
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What does regression mean here? [closed]
Quoted from here:
green gfx bugs while playing avi file encoded with ultimotion codec
most likely libavfilter-caused regression
Can someone here explain in more detail?
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When I say “comment out”, does it mean to uncomment something or comment it?
When I say "comment out", does it mean to uncomment something or comment it?
What is more better, or correctly, used?
PS: I'm talking about source code.
