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What is the @ operator in MATLAB?

I've only used MATLAB 6.5 before. I got some programs that is using '@'. Can someone tell me what is …

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Microsoft equivalent of the nm command

I've long used cygwin's nm command for all my .lib symbol debugging needs, but recently I thought about referring to …

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Why is this string key in a hash converted to a symbol?

Using Ruby 2.3: In example 1, the string key "a" is automatically converted to a symbol, whereas with example 2, it stays a …

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What's the character code for exclamation mark in circle?

What's the Unicode or Segoe UI Symbols (or other font) code for exclamation mark in circle?

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What does a double colon followed by an equals sign (::=) mean in programming documentation?

What does ::= mean in programming documentation? For example in the Lua documentation: or in Python documentation.

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Read csv file in R with currency column as numeric

I'm trying to read into R a csv file that contains information on political contributions. From what I understand, the …

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How to load symbols in Visual Studio 2012

When I am debugging my app I see messages: cannot find or open the PDB file I seem to remember …

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Ruby on Rails- :symbols, @iVars and "strings" - oh my!

New to Rails and trying to get my head around when/why to use :symbols, @ivars , "strings" within the framework. …

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How can you change an age-mismatched PDB to match properly?

Our nightly build process was broken for a long time, such that it generated PDB files that were a few …

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What does to_proc method mean?

I am learning rails and following this thread. I am stuck with the to_proc method. I consider symbols only …

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