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What does REM stand for in BASIC?

Here's a blast from the past: what does "REM", the comment marker, stand for in BASIC? What's the origin of …

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What's the file/group/record/unit separator control characters and its usage?

Unicode defines several control characters from ASCII. http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf I see many control characters …

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How can I find a file in my git repository with SourceTree?

How can I find a file in my git repository with SourceTree? Currently, the file has to be present in …

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Why doesn't Java have automatic properties like C#?

C# has automatic properties which greatly simplify your code: public string Name { get; set; } public string MiddleName { get; set; } public …

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TFS 2010: history lost after moving a folder

In order to clean up my project structure, I moved a folder into another (new) folder through the TFS Power …

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Moving files lose history in TFS 2013

I'm using VS2013 Update 4 with TFS 2013 Update 4. In Source Control Explorer, whenever I move a file from one folder to …

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What are the default buffer size for java.io.BufferedInputStream on old and exotic JVMs?

I've been doing some research for a blog post regarding java.io.BufferedInputStream and buffers. Apparently, over the years, the …

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What is the point of DBNull?

In .NET there is the null reference, which is used everywhere to denote that an object reference is empty, and …

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History of Django's popularity

What sequence of events made Django the most popular Python web framework .. and still so? Even though several other frameworks …

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Line endings messed up in Git - how to track changes from another branch after a huge line ending fix?

We are working with a 3rd party PHP engine that gets regular updates. The releases are kept on a separate …

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