Stack Overflow Weekly Newsletter - Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Top new questions this week: <random> generates same number in Linux, but not in Windows The code below is meant to generate a list of five pseudo-random numbers in the interval [1,100]. I seed the default_random_engine with time(0), which returns the system time in unix time. When I ... c++ linux windows gcc visual-studio-2013   asked by Amin Mesbah 55 votes answered by T.C. 95 votes Why do the C++ language designers keep re-using keywords? What is the main argument in favor of re-using short keywords (and adding context-dependent meanings) instead of just adding more keywords? Is it just that you want to avoid breaking existing code ... c++ c++11 keyword language-design   asked by Andrew Wagner 47 votes answered by Jonathan Wakely 55 votes What does lambda with 2 arrows mean in Java 8? I have read several Java 8 tutorials before. Right now I encountered following topic: Does java support Currying? Here, I see following code: IntFunction<IntUnaryOperator> curriedAdd = a ... java lambda java-8 currying   asked by gstackoverflow 44 votes answered by Adam 46 votes Casting to object in .NET reference source I was going through the OperatingSystem.cs file in the .NET reference source and noted this code in line 50: if ((Object) version == null) version is an object of class Version, which means version ... c# .net object   asked by afaolek 34 votes answered by Jon Skeet 55 votes Should I inline all CSS files programmatically to optimize page load speed? Google PageSpeed often suggests to optimize CSS delivery. It occurred to me that it would reduce network round trips to inline all the CSS like this: <style type="text/css"> @{ ... c# html css asp.net-mvc pagespeed   asked by Shaun Luttin 26 votes answered by DavidG 44 votes What is a "private .NET framework"? A popular financial software vendor distributes a "private" .NET framework: What exactly is a private .NET framework? Why might someone want to have their own, private version of the .NET ... c# .net bloomberg   asked by Tom Dworzanski 23 votes answered by Theodoros Chatzigiannakis 16 votes Recursive method for x^n optimised for when n is even I need to write a recursive method using Java called power that takes a double x and an integer n and that returns x^n. Here is what I have so far. public static double power(double x, int n) { ... java recursion exponentiation   asked by Omar N 22 votes answered by Stefan Haustein 10 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: What does the yield keyword do in Python? What is the use of the yield keyword in Python? What does it do? For example, I'm trying to understand this code1: def node._get_child_candidates(self, distance, min_dist, max_dist): if ... python iterator generator yield   asked by Alex. S. 3897 votes answered by e-satis 6199 votes CSS rule to disable text selection highlighting For anchors that act like buttons (for example, Questions, Tags, Users, etc. at the top of the Stack Overflow page) or tabs, is there a CSS standard way to disable the highlighting effect if the ... css cross-browser highlighting textselection   asked by anon 2474 votes answered by Blowsie 3988 votes Can you answer these? R lists -- how are element names handled? I have noticed this unexpected feature: foo <- list(whatever=1:10) Now, the following works as well: foo$wha foo$w foo$whateve However, the following does not: foo[["wha"]] This has the ... r list syntax   asked by January 9 votes Can you "plug in" to unhandled Promise rejections in Chrome? A while back, v8 gained the capability to detect Promises that are rejected but have no handlers attached (commit). This landed in Chrome as a nice console error, especially useful for when you've ... javascript google-chrome promise   asked by BinaryMuse 5 votes How do I give streams better exception messages? The problem As of right now, the exception support for streams are terrible. When the Boost.System library was adopted into C++11, one was given the impression that maybe exceptions would improve. ... c++ c++11 c++-standard-library   asked by user5378483 19 votes

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