Top "Polling" questions

Watching a variable for changes without polling

I'm using a framework called Processing which is basically a Java applet. It has the ability to do key events …

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Nonblocking Get Character

Platform: Linux 3.2.0 x86 (Debian 7) Compiler: GCC 4.7.2 (Debian 4.7.2-5) I am writing a function that reads a single character from stdin …

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Backbone.js: define timeout for Backbone.sync implementation

I'm using backbone on a project of mine, integrated with communication to an external API. I want to use real-time …

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What's the fastest way to poll a MySQL table for new rows?

My application needs to poll a MySQL database for new rows. Every time new rows are added, they should be …

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SqlDependency performance

I have a web application that use a SQL Server database that is shared with others web applications (over which …

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C# Check if socket is disconnected?

How can you check if a non-blocking socket is disconnect without using Poll?

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Continuous polling using Tasks

This is something I've always used Threads / BackgroundWorker for, but am trying to migrate over to Task way of doing …

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Kafka Consumer's poll() method gets blocked

I'm new to Kafka 0.9 and testing some features I realized a strange behaviour in the Java implemented Consumer (KafkaConsumer). The …

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