What exactly is a VBO in OpenGL?

I think you are mixing up lots of different things and have several confusions, so I’m try to work through most of them in the order you brought them up: when we declare a series of vertices, let’s say 3 vertices that form a triangle primitive, we basically store those nowhere, they’re simply declared in … Read more

What is the JavaScript version of sleep()?

2017 — 2021 update Since 2009 when this question was asked, JavaScript has evolved significantly. All other answers are now obsolete or overly complicated. Here is the current best practice:  Run code snippet This is it. await sleep(<duration>). Or as a one-liner: Note that, await can only be executed in functions prefixed with the async keyword, or at the … Read more

Behaviour of increment and decrement operators in Python

++ is not an operator. It is two + operators. The + operator is the identity operator, which does nothing. (Clarification: the + and – unary operators only work on numbers, but I presume that you wouldn’t expect a hypothetical ++ operator to work on strings.) Parses as Which translates to You have to use the slightly longer += operator to do what you want to do: I suspect the ++ and — operators … Read more

How can I remove a specific item from an array?

Find the index of the array element you want to remove using indexOf, and then remove that index with splice. The splice() method changes the contents of an array by removing existing elements and/or adding new elements.  Run code snippet The second parameter of splice is the number of elements to remove. Note that splice modifies the array in place and returns a … Read more

How to use Git Revert

git revert makes a new commit git revert simply creates a new commit that is the opposite of an existing commit. It leaves the files in the same state as if the commit that has been reverted never existed. For example, consider the following simple example: In this example the commit history has two commits … Read more