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The Lazy Man's URL Parsing
Learn how to pull the pieces of a URL apart the lazy way so you can find out all the important information you wish to know about your URLs.
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What is static program analysis?
The halting problem asks whether the execution of a specific program for a given input will terminate.
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R programming for those coming from other languages
Things a programmer coming from another language needs to know about R, especially those things that might be most surprising
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The Silent Majority: Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives
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Why I stopped working on the Bongard Problems
Please note: this text was written in the summer of 2007, and explains why I, the author, took a long respite from working on my research topics, after the summer of 2006. At the time when I wrote this, and up until around 2011, I had really stopped my research — so the title was correct up to then. Later, after 2011…
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Run your own CTF: Stripe publishes VM images
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Factorization diagrams in Haskell
Meta Title: Math, Sports Data & IPTV: A Portugal Guide Meta Description: Explore how math-minded sports fans use IPTV in Portugal to watch live football, Champi
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One way to fix your rubbish password database
Suppose for a moment that you are running a web site that has a poorly implemented password database that stores password hashes using some...
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The first open company
Gittip is not just another web app or start-up, it’s a new kind of company. I’m calling it an “open company,” and here are its three defining principles:
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