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What is Stateless Object in Java?

Currently I'm reading "Java concurrency in practice", which contains this sentence: Since the action of a thread accessing a stateless …

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What is an "operator int" function?

What is the "operator int" function below? What does it do? class INT { int a; public: INT(int ix = 0) { a = …

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Perfect forwarding - what's it all about?

Possible Duplicate: Advantages of using forward Could someone please explain to me what perfect forwarding is about?

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What is "Orthogonality"?

What does "orthogonality" mean when talking about programming languages? What are some examples of Orthogonality?

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What does the word "literal" mean?

What does the word "literal" mean when used in context such as literal strings and literal values? What is the …

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The term "Context" in programming?

I have been programming for some months now and a frequently used word is "context" in classes. Like ServletContext (Java), …

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What is Method, Property and Function?

Yeah, I'm struggling with that. I cannot distinguish among them because every explanation I read is so unclear and philosophical …

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What is a Web Framework? How does it compare with LAMP?

I started web development in LAMP/WAMP and it was logical to me. There is a Web Server program called …

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What does ABIs: armeabi-v7a in the android version detail mean? please provide the internal details of how this is used?

When running android list targets, I got ABIs: armeabi-v7a what does this mean? please provide the internal details of …

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