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Reversing Bits in C
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,456 posts.
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How I Got a 2x Speedup With One Line of Code
If you had asked me whether or not it was possible to get a 2x speedup for my LazySorted project by adding a single line of code, I would have told you "No way, substantial speedups can really only come from algorithm changes." But surprisingly, I was able to do so by adding a single line using the __builtin_prefetch…
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High Performance Networking in Google Chrome
Chrome gets faster as you use it. Chrome learns the topology of the web, browsing patterns, and critical resources on every page to optimize your browsing! A look under the hood of how it all comes together...
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Computer Science in Vietnam
During my recent trip to Vietnam I took the opportunity to visit some schools and see how computer science was taught there. Officially, foreigners require permission from the department of education to enter schools. But it's much simpler (and the results are more representative) to simply show up unannounced. A…
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Codecademy introduces API lessons with YouTube, SoundCloud, Parse, and more
Stories, advice, & news from Codecademy
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Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice
This is a (very late) reply to Patrick McKenzie's " Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice ". I find much of his advice very sensible, and it might be very helpful to someone in the beginning of their career – assuming they can act upon it (and I really don't know whether my 20-year-old self could…
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Does Gravity Travel at the Speed of Light? (1998)
Updated 2011 by Steve Carlip, and 1998 by Steve Carlip, Matthew Wiener and Geoffrey Landis. Original by Steve Carlip.
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Facebook Android app sends phone number to Facebook servers without consent
Broadcom Community - VMTN, Mainframe, Symantec, Carbon Black
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The exploding toilet
Not all mistakes are fatal. Some are worse.
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Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers
For those who aren’t regular readers: as a followup to this post, there are four posts detailing the basic four methods of proof, with intentions to detail some more advanced proof techniques in the future. You can find them on this blog’s primers page. Do you really want to get better at mathematics? Remember when…
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IBM to Acquire SoftLayer
Learn about IBM's performance and progress to become a more innovative and focused company.
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Mobile Operators Announce Commitment to Firefox OS
Mozilla is excited to share that today 18 operators at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona announced their commitment to Firefox OS, which will power t
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Client-side full text search in CSS
Using data- attributes for indexation, and a dynamic stylesheet with a CSS3 selector for search, the implementation of a client-side full-text search is possible (and straightfoward) in CSS rather ...
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RethinkDB 1.5 released: secondary indexes, soft durability, perf improvements
We are pleased to announce RethinkDB 1.5 ( The Graduate), so go download it now !
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Why we're supporting Typed Clojure
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