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Anything related to "demo applications", i.e. programs that are meant to show to some audience the general appearance or purpose of an application, without being actually functional. Usually demos are either severely crippled versions of the application or have reduced functionality.

Anything related to "demo applications", i.e. programs that are meant to show to some audience the general appearance or purpose of an application, without being actually functional. Usually demos are either severely crippled versions of the application or have reduced functionality.

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How do you create a transparent demo screen for an Android app?

I'm trying to create a semi-transparent demo screen that is launched only when a user first installs my application. Here's an example from the Pulse News app: Galaxy Nexus Nexus One Instead of a 'tap-to-dismiss' feature, I want the user to be…
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Compiling without libc

I want to compile my C-code without the (g)libc. How can I deactivate it and which functions depend on it? I tried -nostdlib but it doesn't help: The code is compilable and runs, but I can still find the name of the libc in the hexdump of my…
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Tools to support live coding as in Bret Victor's "Inventing on Principle" talk

I've watched an already well known video where Bret Victor, former Apple UI designer shows amazing demos with immediate updates of running code after changing literally one symbol in source code. To make my question clear to those who haven't seen…
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What can you do in 30 lines of Go? Can you create a useful, complete program that demonstrates its features?

So, the big buzz in the last few days is Go, the new language from Google. Assuming you're all obsessive programming language geeks like me, you've all downloaded it, built it, and run your "Hello, 世界" program (isn't it nice using a language written…
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Whats are some real time data sources?

I'm working on a demo on real-time visualization and I'm trying to think out of the box. Looks like any big data real-time demo is on twitter or traffic data. Are there any other options out there that publish real-time data (for free)? Thanks
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What is memoization good for and is it really all that helpful?

There are a few automatic memoization libraries available on the internet for various different languages; but without knowing what they are for, where to use them, and how they work, it can be difficult to see their value. What are some convincing…
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R demos for presentation

I know this is barely programming related, but I'll have to show some intuitive, straightforward and possibly very appealing R presentation so that a department at my current institution will start to evaluate its adoption. Does anyone of you know…
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Local Storage - HTML5 Demo with Code

I am trying to work with local storage with forms using html5. I am just unable to find a single working demo online. Can anyone find me a good demo and a tutorial that works. My browser is completely supported. Appreciate all the help. Thanks
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volume rendering (using glsl) with ray casting algorithm

I am learning volume rendering using ray casting algorithm. I have found a good demo and tuturial in here. but the problem is that I have a ATI graphic card instead of nVidia which make me can't using the cg shader in the demo, so I want to change…
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Decorator functions in Go

Decorator pattern (functions) has many benefits: It is very useful when a method has many orthogonal concerns... I.e., None of these concerns are related, other than that we wanna do all (or some) of them whenever we call our method. This is where…
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Does anyone know a demo JSON server?

I am building a library that makes calls to a server that returns JSON. I'd like to be able to test this library. This would require my testing code to make a call to a working server that returns JSON. Does anyone know of a server that is suitable…
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Possible to mirror iPhone/iPad screen on a monitor without jailbreaking?

I have been looking for a way to show the iPhone screen (not the simulator) on a monitor or projector for demo purposes. Previous SO post suggested jailbreak (Veency, iDemo/DemoGod, screensplitr) or simulator. Release notes iOS 3.2 (External Display…
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The go 1.5 trace command

The Go 1.5 release note says, The new "go tool trace" command enables the visualisation of program traces generated by new tracing infrastructure in the runtime. This is really exciting, and I want to know more about it. But its official…
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Demo applications build with CodeIgniter

I've been learning how to work with CodeIgniter for a few weeks now, but I'm a little stuck on how to build a real application with it. Are there any open source demo's that I could use to see how the flow works in there. Couldn't find anything on…
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How to show App instructions in ionic on first startup

I am new to ionic framework. I want to show app instructions like this. what api/framework i should use to achieve this.Or if anyone have code samples,code pen help me in learning this.
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