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How much overhead should we expect from enabling integer overflow checks? Using a compiler flag or built-in intrinsics, we should be able to do the check with a conditional branch that branches based on the overflow flag that add and sub set. Code that looks like
I read a post about CSRF on DigitalOcean (in Russian) by Sergey Belove . My first reaction was, obviously, how come ? DigitalOcean is not k...
Permissions on Android are tricky to get right from a user perspective. Usually you only want to do something minor and innocuous (pre-fill a form with a contact's info) but the actual permission you have to request gives you much more power than necessary (access to ALL contact
Free yourself from the chains of jQuery by embracing and understanding the modern Web API and discovering various directed libraries to help you fill in the gaps.
Report of my one game a month challenge during 2014.
Given a software code repository together with all commit history, can you spot potentially problematic parts of the software?This is the question I have bee...
Go 1.4 adds support for Android, go generate, optimizations, and more.
There are two stories I particularly like about the problem of bootstrapping self-referential tools. This one : Another way ...
It's possible to use Node.js with a browser shell to build cross-platform desktop applications using HTML, CSS and JS. Let's look at some of the options.
It’s important to understand the cost of memory allocations, but this cost can be surprisingly tricky to measure. It seems reasonable to measure this cost by wrapping calls to new[] and delet…
The current OCamlXARM compiles by default for iOS 7.1, but using it for iOS 8 is not too difficult. The only thing that changes is the name of the SDK, which can be specified with the -ccopt option of ocamlopt.
A recent blog post by consultant John Cook reminded everybody about the infamous “Hello World” programs in the early chapters of the first five editions of Programming Windows:
[For your winter reading pleasure, we're pleased to present this three-part series of new material by Bjarne Stroustrup. This is part one; parts two and three will be posted on the following two Mondays, which will complete the series just in time for Christmas. Enjoy. -- Ed.]
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
Much has been written about Go’s interfaces . They’re one of the language features I like best, providing a very pragmatic trade-off between the complexity of more powerful type systems and the anarchy of duck typing. If you’re not already familiar with Go or Go’s interfaces, I’d encourage you to read an introduction…
In order to give some structure to my ongoing investigation of git’s data structures, protocols and implementation I decided to re-implement git clone without using any of git’s plumbing commands or any of the existing git libraries. Along the way I tried to keep some implementation notes that should help to…
Step 1) Download the video from Youtube using JDownloader . The best one was the original Japanese upload, The Game Awards 2014 å‡ºå±•æ˜ åƒ ã‚¼ãƒ«ãƒ€ã®ä¼èª¬ 最新作 , which is 720p. I saved this file as zelda_720p.mp4.
Your terminal can display color, but most diff tools don't make good use of it. By highlighting changes, icdiff can show you the differences between similar files without getting in the way. This is especially helpful for identifying and understanding small changes within existing lines.
