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Reverse indentation
Reverse indentation
I've heard that your code can run faster if you indent it in reverse, so that the compiler can process it like a tree design pattern from the very top of the "branches" down. This helps because gra...
Reverse indentation
mame/quine-relay
mame/quine-relay
An uroboros program with 100+ programming languages
mame/quine-relay
The Problem with the FizzBuzz Problem — Gayle Laakmann McDowell
The Problem with the FizzBuzz Problem — Gayle Laakmann McDowell
FizzBuzz is not the basic, sanity-check interview question that many presume it to be. Use it and you might just end up filtering out some of your good candidates who, unfortunately, suffer from the Smart Person's Mirage.
The Problem with the FizzBuzz Problem — Gayle Laakmann McDowell
It's official, ADSL works over wet string
It's official, ADSL works over wet string
Broadband services are a wonderful innovation of our time, using multiple frequency  bands  (hence the name) to carry signals over wires (us...
It's official, ADSL works over wet string
Does a compiler use all x86 instructions?
Does a compiler use all x86 instructions?
On the Z80 CPU there are so few registers and instructions that you can easily know and use them all and wish there were more of them. However, half of the time it feels like the only on you really use is ld. I imagine that if ld took half the number of clock cycles, average code would run twice as fast.
Does a compiler use all x86 instructions?
Do square wave exist?
Do square wave exist?
If we send a square waveform through an antenna, will we get square electromagnetic waves with electric and magnetic fields looking like squares? Also, since there is an abrupt/almost jump in ampl...
Do square wave exist?
Comment #28 : Bug #255161 : Bugs : cupsys package : Ubuntu
Comment #28 : Bug #255161 : Bugs : cupsys package : Ubuntu
What a fascinating bug!! My wife has complained that open office will never print on Tuesdays!?! Then she demonstrated it. Sure enough, won't print on Tuesday. Other applications print. I think this is the same bug. Here is my guess: Print to a postscript file. Observe the line: %%CreationDate: (Tue Mar 3 19:47:42 2009) Change "Tue" to anything else: %%CreationDate: (XTue Mar 3 19:47:42 2009) Save the file and it prints. Tools like evince work because they simply omit the "Cr...
Comment #28 : Bug #255161 : Bugs : cupsys package : Ubuntu
More dirty coding tricks from game developers
More dirty coding tricks from game developers
In this timeless feature from the March 2010 issue of Game Developer Magazine, we revisit the mighty kludges and well-meaning hacks that are sometimes required
More dirty coding tricks from game developers
SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMW
SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMW
Using various Super Mario World glitches, I injected the code for Flappy Bird (code written by p4plus2). This is the first time a human has ever completed th...
SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMW