For 80 years, we stacked abstractions just to manage the machine. Now, human language is the code. But when we stop auditing the output, the middle layers vanish. The circle finally closes: back to pure binary and raw, unadulterated power.
Setters. The most ubiquitous anti-pattern, and the least talked about.
Somebody who deleted himself posted this comment about another Microservices craze critique. I reproduced it below for the sake of hoarding: "Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." In his book The Art of Unix Programming that was first published in 2003, Eric
“Undefined Behavior” is one of those frustrating aspects of the C Language. It leads to defensive programming and avoiding some of the coolest features of the language. Well, today I was struct, again, by such "undefinitions"...
Today I was playing (never competing, please!) in a Code Chef programming contest and was dismayed when comparing my timings with some other competitors. Theirs were way shorter, and I saw no way to improve my O(N) solution because I HAD to read an array of values. My processing
How about a hand-made rotating backup solution?
Binary is NOT a sequence of '0' and '1' characters. This is FAKE!