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About the boot.ini issue | EVE Online
About the boot.ini issue | EVE Online
My name is Dr. Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson and I have been directing the EVE Online Software Group for the better part of this year. From my previous work experiences in the antivirus industry and following CCP for quite some time now, I have come to appreciate the need for full disclosure when things
·eveonline.com·
About the boot.ini issue | EVE Online
Cross-language string escaping
Cross-language string escaping
I have a string in C# that contains an error message. This message could contain single quotes or double quotes or both, but I am free to manipulate the string however I need (as well as the HTML/
·stackoverflow.com·
Cross-language string escaping
Apple Acknowledges Disastrous iPhone Messages Bug, Suggests This Temporary Fix
Apple Acknowledges Disastrous iPhone Messages Bug, Suggests This Temporary Fix
Earlier this week, I wrote about how a new iOS bug emerged that enabled iPhone users to crash another person’s iPhone by simply sending a text message. The text message -- which simply says: effective. Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗 -- causes the iPhone of the recipient to crash continuously if [...]
·forbes.com·
Apple Acknowledges Disastrous iPhone Messages Bug, Suggests This Temporary Fix
The International SAT Solver Competitions
The International SAT Solver Competitions
The International SAT Solver Competition is today an established series of competitive events aiming at objectively evaluating the progress in state-of-the-art procedures for solving Boolean satisfiability (SAT) instances. Over the years, the competitions have significantly contributed to the fast progress in SAT solver technology that has made SAT a practical success story of computer science. This short article provides an overview of the SAT solver competitions.
·ojs.aaai.org·
The International SAT Solver Competitions
Redefining the number 2 in Python
Redefining the number 2 in Python
In Python it's possible to redefine some builtin values that shouldn't really be changed. For example True and False can be changed in Python versions 2.7 and lower. This is fixed in Python 3 and assignment to True or False raises: "SyntaxError: assigment to keyword" but it works on …
·hforsten.com·
Redefining the number 2 in Python
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...
·codegolf.stackexchange.com·
Reverse indentation