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What is the difference between a JavaBean and a POJO?

I'm not sure about the difference. I'm using Hibernate and, in some books, they use JavaBean and POJO as an …

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Difference between parameter and argument

Is there a difference between a "parameter" and an "argument", or are they simply synonyms?

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What is a 'Closure'?

I asked a question about Currying and closures were mentioned. What is a closure? How does it relate to currying?

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What is the official name for a credit card's 3 digit code?

I am working on a payment form. What is that 3-digit code on the back of the card called? I …

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What do Push and Pop mean for Stacks?

long story short my lecturer is crap, and was showing us infix to prefix stacks via an overhead projector and …

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Stateless vs Stateful

I'm interested in articles which have some concrete information about stateless and stateful design in programming. I'm interested because I …

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What is the difference between Cloud, Grid and Cluster?

What is the difference between Cloud, Cluster and Grid? Please give some examples of each as the definition of cloud …

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When is a language considered a scripting language?

What makes a language a scripting language? I've heard some people say "when it gets interpreted instead of compiled". That …

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Differences between key, superkey, minimal superkey, candidate key and primary key

I'm new to MySQL, and I'm really confused about the different terms that I've encountered. I tried googling the answer …

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What is the difference between the kernel space and the user space?

What is the difference between the kernel space and the user space? Do kernel space, kernel threads, kernel processes and …

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