terminology

Someone told me to look into "vanilla web interface". I have Googled it, but didn't find any relevant result, at least that was I thought. What is it? The term "vanilla" usually refers to something that's plain and unadorned (from vanilla ice-cream) or perhaps simple (as in basic), so they're asking you to look into a "simple web interface" without any unnecessary complications. Considering the Vanilla software entry on wikipedia, which states (quoting) : Vanilla software is computer software that is not customized from its delivered form - i.e. it is used without any customizations applied to

I'm reading XMLHttpRequest Level 2 specification (W3C Working Draft 07 September 2010) but after I noticed that browsers are implementing features described into a Editor's Draft that has eliminated many things. Which is the difference between a Working Draft and an Editor's Draft ? A Working Draft is a document that has been officially published by the group that is developing it, which means that the members of that group have agreed that it is in a state worth sharing with a wider audience (generally this is for feedback purposes — it certainly does not mean that the participants agree with

Let's say I have a class Derived which derives from class Base whereas sizeof(Derived) > sizeof(Base) . Now, if one allocates an array of Derived like this: Base * myArray = new Derived[42]; and then attempts to access the n -th object using doSomethingWithBase(myArray[n]); Then this is might likely (but not always) cause undefined behaviour due to accessing Base from an invalid location. What is the correct term for such an programming error? Should it be considered a case of object slicing ? This is not object slicing. As noted, indexing myArray does not cause object slicing, but results in

Simple question but, I see exclusive and inclusive when referring to number ranges. For example, this is a line from an algorithms book: The following function prints the powers of 2 from 1 through n (inclusive). What is meant by this? What makes a number range inclusive or exclusive? Tim Biegeleisen The following function prints the powers of 2 from 1 through n (inclusive). This means that the function will compute 2^i where i = 1, 2, ..., n , in other words, i can have values from 1 up to and including the value n . i.e n is Included in Inclusive If, on the other hand, your book had said:

Can anyone provide exhaustive explanation, please? I'm diving into concurrent programming and met those registers while trying to understand consensus. From Lamport's "On interprocess communication" : ...a regular register is atomic if two successive reads that overlap the same write cannot obtain the new then the old value... . Assume, that first comes thread0.write(0) - with no overlapping. Basically, one can say using Lamports definition that thread1 can read first 1 and then 0 again, if both reads are consequent and overlap with thread0.write(1) . But how is that possible? Reads and writes