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I was just poking around in /usr/bin and I found an ELF binary file called [. /usr/bin/[. I have never heard of this file and my first thought was that it was a clever way of hiding a program, poss...

Who first said the following? A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem? And on a less important note, is this true and if so could you give an explanation (

I was looking around for information on this and couldn't really find anything that solid. I used the TTX tool in the fonttools library to decompile the font into XML format but couldn't garner any...

Falsehoods programmers believe about time, in a single list · GitHub

Why spreadsheets have resulted in some genes getting new names, plus poisons mistakenly taken from Zelda in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up

DANGER! Do not run this command to 'test' it unless you are prepared for a crash and/or force-rebooting your system. I was in my Virtualbox running 12.04 trying to compile an app, and while waitin...

A catalogue of software constructs, languages, or APIs which are unexpectedly Turing-complete; implications for security and reliability.

Millions of developers use a programming language today that was created in just 10 days during the hustle and bustle

Articles on frontend development and more.

In general, sleep sort works by starting a separate task for each item to be sorted, where each task sleeps for an interval corresponding to the item's sort key...

Rowhammer blog post (draft) Posted by Mark Seaborn, sandbox builder and breaker, with contributions by Thomas Dullien, reverse en...

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Someone told me that I can't parse XML with regexes, and I just had to prove them wrong.