Mads is a terrific person so I thought I would stop in to bug him about C#. For the first 15-20 minutes he mentions some of the C# 6 features you should be already using. For the balance of the video he talks about where C# is headed and some of the thinking behind some new features.
Crazily fast hashing with carry-less multiplicationsWe all know the regular multiplication that we learn in school. To multiply a number by 3, you can multiply a number by two and add it with itself. Programmers write: where a<<1 means "shift the bit values by one to the left, filling in with a zero". That's a multiplication by two.
HTTP 418 I'm A Teapot - Just A Joke, Or Something More?I stumbled across an interesting StackOverflow thread earlier this week. I had to read it a few times to notice what bothered me: it turns out that there is a status code for HTTP 418 "I'm a teapot".
WATS Line 54I had an interesting conversation with Doc Norton this morning. And it got me to thinking... You know what an 800 number is. Some people call them "toll free". The Telephone company call them WATS lines. Wide Area Telephone Service.
Don’t Destroy Your Dev Team By Growing — Startups, Wanderlust, and Life HacI recently read a blog post on forcing more complex passwords. I'm all for more security, but I don't think these kinds of techniques are the best way and are more nuisance than helpful. You want to enforce more secure passwords, I get it. However,
All I Wanted Was To Write A BlogThis isn’t the first time and won’t be the last time. I just wanted to write a blog post. I had a topic in mind, something good I bet but doesn’t matter anymore because the journey was way more fantastic1. I knew I was already in trouble because I had a blown up laptop.
The RTW-DiseaseRTW or Reinvent-The-Wheel is pain anywhere in the region of the head . It can be a symptom of a number of different conditions of the head. RTW can result from a wide range of causes both benign and more serious. RTW, though, is a non-specific symptom, which means that it has many possible causes.
Guillermo Schwarz's answer to What are the best-kept secrets of great programmers?If I told you then I would have to kill you. 0. Everything can be done with hashmaps.
As sites move to SHA2 encryption, millions face HTTPS lock-outIn 2016, tens of millions of people around the world will face trouble accessing some of the most common encrypted websites like Facebook, Google and Gmail, Twitter, and Microsoft sites. Why? Because their browser or device will be unable to read the new, more secure certificates.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.