Rob Janssen

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Linux utils that you might not know

I’ve used Linux as my primary operating system for well over ten years, yet I still stumble upon things that are completely unknown to me. For example, several days ago, I wanted to display a formated table in my terminal.

Reckon you've seen some stupid security things? Here, hold my beer...

Naturally, I passed it on because let's face it, that's some crazy shit going on right there. To which the Twitters responded with equal parts abject horror and berating comments for not having already identified this as a joke circulating on Reddit. But here's the thing - it's feasible.

SOLID Principles in a glance

If you are making changes to the same Class for different type of requirements you are doing it wrong. Code should be open for extension and closed for modification.

Don’t Hash Secrets

Building secure systems is difficult. It would be nice if we had a bunch of well-designed crypto building blocks that we could assemble in all sorts of ways and be certain that they would, no matter what, yield a secure system overall.

95% engineers in India unfit for software development jobs, claims report

NEW DELHI: Talent shortage is acute in the IT and data science ecosystem in India with a survey claiming that 95% of engineers in the country are not fit to take up software development jobs. According to a study by employability assessment company Aspiring Minds, only 4.

The 640 K Barrier

There was a demon in memory. They said whoever challenged him would lose. Their programs would lock up, their machines would crash, and all their data would disintegrate. The demon lived at the hexadecimal memory address A0000, 655,360 in decimal, beyond which no more memory could be allocated.

(Kinda.)

Luckily, I know this about myself. This allows me to consciously engineer my life so that despite having the emotional maturity of a heroin-addicted lab rat, I’m occasionally able to get things done. I waste a lot of time on Reddit.

Ten SQL Server Functions That You Hardly Use But Should

In order to see what rows are in table 1 and not in table 2 and vice versa you can do 2 left joins, 2 right joins or 1 left and 1 right join. To get the rows that are different you can use BINARY_CHECKSUM.

Solving the Water Jug Problem from Die Hard 3 with TLA+ and Hypothesis

This post was originally published on the author’s personal site. It is reproduced here with permission from the author. In the movie Die Hard with a Vengeance (aka Die Hard 3), there is this famous scene where John McClane (Bruce Willis) and Zeus Carver (Samuel L.

Visualization of Quantum Physics (Quantum Mechanics)

This video visually demonstrates some basic quantum physics concepts using the simple case of a free particle. All the simulations here are based on real equations and laws. See more information here: http://www.zutopedia.com/quantum_phys...The mathematics involved was taken from this excellent book

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