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Communication is the activity of conveying information.

Communication (from Latin "communis", meaning to share) is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, visuals, signals, writing, or behavior.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication

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Can two applications listen to the same port?

Can two applications on the same machine bind to the same port and IP address? Taking it a step further, can one app listen to requests coming from a certain IP and the other to another remote IP? I know I can have one application that starts off…
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Can Selenium interact with an existing browser session?

Does anybody know if Selenium (WebDriver preferably) is able to communicate with and act through a browser that is already running before launching a Selenium Client? I mean if Selenium is able to comunicate with a browser without using the…
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Difference between HTTPS and SSL

What is the difference between HTTPS and SSL? I read about them and found following: HTTPS: HTTPS is a combination of HTTP with SSL/TLS. It means that HTTPS is basically HTTP connection which is delivering the data secured using SSL/TLS. SSL: SSL…
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Communicating between a fragment and an activity - best practices

This question is mostly to solicit opinions on the best way to handle my app. I have three fragments being handled by one activity. Fragment A has one clickable element the photo and Fragment B has 4 clickable elements the buttons. The other…
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Android apps, communicating with a device plugged in the USB port

I'm thinking about an Android app (with possibly an accompanying physical device), and I'm trying to figure out whether this is something that's feasible. 1) Let's say I plug my Android to my PC. Would it be possible for an app installed on the PC…
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Explaining why "Just add another column to the DB" is a bad idea, to non programmers

I have sales people and bean counters who are trying to sell customizations to clients, which is fine. But when a complex change request comes in that I send back a large estimate for, they get confused. Often they come back at me with "Why can't…
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What is spark.driver.maxResultSize?

The ref says: Limit of total size of serialized results of all partitions for each Spark action (e.g. collect). Should be at least 1M, or 0 for unlimited. Jobs will be aborted if the total size is above this limit. Having a high limit may…
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Working with USB devices in .NET

Using .Net (C#), how can you work with USB devices? How can you detect USB events (connections/disconnections) and how do you communicate with devices (read/write). Is there a native .Net solution to do this?
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Android - getTargetFragment and setTargetFragment - What are they used for

I tried searching but i'm still a little lost. I usually do fragment to fragment communication through an Activity via interfaces or a BroadcastReceiver. Anyway, my question is what is the use of getTargetFragment? Can someone provide a use case…
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Relaying a request in asp.net (Forwarding a request)

I have a web application that communicates between two different web applications (one receiver and one sender, the sender communicates with my application, and my application communicates with both). A regular scenario is that the sender sends a…
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What communication protocol does MySQL use?

For example, when a web-browser connects to a web-server, it uses HTTP for a protocol at the application layer. But when a web-server connects to MySQL server, another database, what application layer protocol is used for the request and response?…
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How does cpu communicate with peripherals?

i assume cpu has direct access to motherboard's BIOS and RAM.(correct me if i'm wrong) But how does cpu communicate with other hardware like hdds, expansion cards, peripherals, other BIOSes etc.? I know about OS and its drivers, but they are…
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cURL requesting URL with whitespaces in URL.. What to do

So I'm trying to curl this URL: http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/Screen shot 2011-04-28 at 8.13.21 PM.png URL Encoded it reads as: http%3A%2F%2Fimages.fastcompany.com%2Fupload%2FScreen+shot+2011-04-28+at+8.13.21+PM.png However, curl needs it to…
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Designers and developers working together

The rich presentational capabilities of WPF and Silverlight mean developers like me will be working closely with graphic designers more often these days, as is the case in my next project. Does anyone out there have any tips and experience (from…
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Can any finite bit string be found in pi within a reasonable amount of time?

So, a while back I read a joke that went something like this: "Never compute pi in binary - because it goes on infinitely and is random, it theoretically contains every finite bit string. So, you will then possess all copyrighted material in…
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