misberner questions

misberner answers

• Can pseudo "lock" objects be used in the Amazon S3 API?
• How to inteligently concat two strings so as to ignore duplicate substring
• Encapsulate class-specific and method-specific generics in one type
• Comparing 2 exact same strings returns false
• Use of Scala by-name parameters
• First N values of a Map<K, V> sorted by value
• what happens when a thread is interrupted while blocking on a wait()?
• Scala permutations using two lists
• Detecting if two regexes could possibly match the same string [duplicate]
• return iterator from std::set::insert() is const? [duplicate]