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What happened to Dojo in 2008?

Many of you have seen this graph of Google Trends of popular AJAX frameworks (Dojo, jQuery, YUI). The graph seems …

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Angular 7 Router - Navigate without adding to the history

Using Angular Router, I want to navigate to another url without adding it to the browser history. this.router.navigateByUrl(`${…

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Why do some compilers use "a.out" as the default name for executables?

Most UNIX C compilers link executables by default to a file called "a.out". Why? Is this a written standard …

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Is std::string part of the STL?

(When I say STL, I'm talking about the template library that revolves around containers, iterators, algorithms and functors.) This question …

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How to repeat a command with substitution in Vim?

In Unix the ^ allows you to repeat a command with some text substituted for new text. For example: csh% grep "…

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Why "Show history" and "Show history for Selection" options are in grey using Git with Intellij Idea 13?

Go to some code file in Idea 13. Right click on it. Why "Git->Show history" and "Git->Show …

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Why are c/c++ floating point types so oddly named?

C++ offers three floating point types: float, double, and long double. I infrequently use floating-point in my code, but when …

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Why are 8 and 256 such important numbers in computer sciences?

I don't know very well about RAM and HDD architecture, or how electronics deals with chunks of memory, but this …

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Modify iframe.src without entry to history object

I have an iframe in my web page. I modify the src property via javascript like so: document.getElementById('myiframe').…

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IE11 window.history.pushState "Object doesn't support property or method 'pushState'

I have this simple html code below. It works as expected (appending ?SomeParam to the url) in my development environment (…

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