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Execution process of IOS application? [closed]

Hi am newbie to IOS dev my question is in java after compilation source file will be convertes to class files.Can anyone help me to understand execution process of IOS app i.e source files to .ipa ...
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Find how the data has been processed

Well this has been a question I have puzzled about for a long time: Suppose I have a dictionary of input:output like: This {2: 6, 5: 15, 20: 60, 26: 78, ... 982: 2946, 997: 2991} where ...
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What is the difference, if any, between Model and QA environments?

I have worked for various organizations many of whom call their environment that comes after the test/developer environment and before the staging and/or production environment either model or QA. ...
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What is the preferred way of communicating between applications on the same system?

I'm designing a system that is built on several small applications written in python, some of these will be services and others will be programs that only run during special situations. What I need to ...
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CMS updates into subversion -> review process

We manage a range of client sites built in Wordpress and Joomla and these require regular updates to the core CMS and extensions. We keep these sites in subversion and place updates in subversion. We ...
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Are there any tools for remote coding interview?

Firstly, I'm not exactly sure if this question is a better fit over here, or on workplace.SE. So forgive me if it is in the wrong place. We are interviewing some candidates for a development ...
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How to make ASP .NET MVC website have a continuous process running?

This website is supposed to be a game where the players have some 'buildings' and these buildings produce resources. E.g. an iron mine may produce 30 pieces of iron ore per minute and automatically ...
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How Often and for What Reasons Should a Programmer Get Paged When on Call? [closed]

I'm asking this question because I happen to be on call this week, supporting an application that sits in the middle of a service-oriented architecture. So far, it's been averaging about 35-40 pages ...
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Should I use simple socket programming to communicate between 2 threads? [closed]

Is it a good idea to communicate between 2 threads using sockets in Java? What I am trying to achieve is Inter-process communication using socket programming/RPC mechanism.
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Round Robin - how to determine the optimal quantum of time?

I have to calculate the proper quantum of time for Round Robin process scheduling algorithm. As I read in Tanenbaum's book, the quantum of time should cover like 80% of the running time of all ...
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What are the pros and cons of Inter process communication done via sockets vs shared memory?

I understand that two of the many more options for inter process communication can be : Shared memory Sockets Actually I saw these two options being exposed by Intellij Idea for debugging a Java ...
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make-like build tools for data?

Make is a standard tools for building software. But make decides whether a target needs to be regenerated by comparing file modification times. Are there any proven, preferably small tools that ...
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Inter-process and inter-thread data sharing [closed]

I know that operating systems facilitate inter-process and inter-thread data sharing. I want to know about the mechanisms used to facilitate such sharing. I read about "pipes". What are the other ...
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Is there a limit on the number of threads that can be spawned simultaneously?

Yesterday I came across this question: How can i call robocopy within a python script to bulk copy multiple folders?, and I though it might be a good exercise for multithreading. I though of spawning ...
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How would one go about reading memory from a process? Is it different by OS?

As an experienced web-developer, but a novice "low level" programmer, this stuff is sort of voodoo to me still. I'm curious about how one would even begin to go about finding a memory block, and then ...
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Is agile about development or management?

On a debate over what Scrum is all about, I found that perhaps I totally misunderstood the agile thing. It appears to me that Scrum (which is certainly considered an Agile process) is all about ...
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Collaboration between client, web designer, and web developer

I am primarily a Web Developer (back end programming) - but intend to offer a complete service to my clients, from concept, to brand design, photoshop mock-ups and everything else in between. I'm ...
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What's a good model for continuous manager <-> programmer feedback?

Is it important for managers to give devs regular feedback on how they're doing and vice versa? I say vice versa because I consider employees to be responsible to their manager, and managers to be ...
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Reducing complexity of our custom framework

At our company, we have a custom software application using our own framework. The framework was built in approximately 2002 or 2003, long before I showed up at the company. Majority of the functions ...
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Mulitple processes aware of each other

Hope you can help me with this, I've searched a lot and I got really confused of what to do here. I'm building a program in C and I need to run it multiple time as I need. So it's going to be like ...
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Should I log trivial fixes?

I'm in a code shop of two. And while I understand that a bug tracker is useful where the number of programmers is greater or equal to one, I'm not so convinced that logging bugs, changes, and fixes is ...