Each year, some of the worlds leading thinkers gather for an extraordinary event. Attendees have called it “The ultimate brain spa,” “Davos for optimists” and “A four-day journey into the future, in the company of those creating it.”
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design — three broad subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future. In [...]
Two strings walk into a bar. The first says, “Hello, I’d like a ciderO’y?kI’U`,E’*@???’?? ?!>A~Xx?(y’n?.” The second says, “Please excuse my friend, he’s not null-terminated.”
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If you are running Linux kernel newer than 2.6.17 but older than 2.6.24.2 or 2.6.23.16 then any local user can easily become root or at least crash your system.
There are [...]
Did you know that the tradition of using the phrase “Hello world!” as a test message was influenced by an example program in the book The C Programming Language. The example program from that book was inherited from a 1974 Bell Laboratories internal memorandum by Brian Kernighan, Programming in C: A Tutorial.
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