How Many C++ Keywords Can Be Used in Succession?
Once I was listening to a boring lecture about sorting algorithms. The lecture was boring not only for me but also for all my neighbors. We were pupils who take […]
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Area of a Polygon: the Most Comic Code I’ve Ever Seen
When I was a freshman, I took part in a programming contest for students. One task was quite typical: a text file contains vertices of a polygon; the program must […]
Scala vs C vs Java: Cycles Speed
Reading how to calculate Pi using akka actors (http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/1.3.1/intro/getting-started-first-scala.html), I wondered: how much faster can be plain C code doing the same task? So, this is my simple Scala code. […]
SSH Public Key: More Important Than It Seems to Be
Once my colleague asked me to help her with SSH public key authentication. The symptoms are very common: you add your id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys, try to login and… ssh asks […]
Why Easytag Can Change Audacious’ Skin
I am a pedant and I like if my audiofiles have correct homogenous tags and names. I dislike missing album or artist field and filenames like “01 – Track 01”. […]
Operating Systems. Input and Output
This is the third video from a cycle devoted to system programming and operating systems. In this part, I discuss details of filesystem trees and forests. Typical file operation (open/read/write/close) […]
Introduction to OS. Part 1
This is the first video from a cycle devoted to system programming and operating systems. In this part, I describe purpose and architectures operating systems. I enumerate main historical stages […]
Tricky pipes
I have written a demo program for pipes. A process forks, the parent writes a number to pipe, the child reads it, divides by 2, and sends it back. The […]
C++ and Leadership
Looking for opinions on CamelCase in C++, I have found a nice quotation (http://www.schmid.dk/wiki/index.php/C%2B%2B_Coding_Style): This_should_demonstrate_which_naming_style_is_the_most_readable thisShouldDemonstrateWhichNamingStyleIsTheMostReadable and a clear explanation of a simple and extremely important thesis (http://www.possibility.com/Cpp/CppCodingStandard.html#leader): Leadership I […]
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