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Merging – linear vs. non-linear history (Git)

After developing a feature or fix you want to merge that branch onto the parent branch. There are two main

Most guys would say “No, but C++ has pointers” and they are right, but not in the way they assume

… is user for unidirectional inter process communication on a single machine. In the following example a pipe gets created

Illustration Creator: Yihui Xiong Scenarios ALSA (The red scenario) – Using ALSA without any sound server – Just one source

The shell provides the user a way to interact with the OS. It’s called shell, because it’s the outermost layer

Windows You always have to create a totally new process via a CreateProcess(…) call. Linux You can either just copy

Since C++11 we can now use move semantics (move constructor, move assignment operator). They provide a perfomance boost over copy

Video compressing normally happens directly by the codec itself. It is realized based on two main strategies. They are called

Sorry, but that is (nearly always) bullshit! It’s only possible if you remove unused parts like audio channels or subtitles

Full Tunnel All your traffic get send to the VPN server and if you aren’t requesting a server in its