Coding Relic

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There is an urban legend that Eskimos have many different words for snow. The truth is the Aleut languages have about as many words for sno...

Every handful of years we ratchet up the Ethernet link speed: from 10 Mbps to 100 Mbps in the early 1990s, to 1 Gbps in the mid 1990s, to 10...

Much has been written about privacy online. When Pandora reveals our friend's music tastes it makes us slightly uncomfortable , even i...

The American Academy of Pediatrics released a policy statement calling for the redesign of foods which pose a choking hazard to children. A...

In the tech industry, how often do we hear this? "Great technology, they just didn't market it well." "Its a shame ...

I just wanted to embed two short audio clips in a web page. Just two little "play" buttons. Thats all. I started with a Flash play...

The Colony is an early 3d first person shooter. David Alan Smith began development in 1984 using an original 128k Macintosh. The game ship...

Did anybody else have an eWorld account, or just me? It never really took off as a place for those-of-us-who-drink-the-Apple-coolaid to ...

hash_map is not part of the current C++ STL, but is universally adopted as an extension. Using hash_map is simple when using built-in primit...

Facebook caps the maximum image size to conserve storage space, or bandwidth, or both. I attempted to upload an image substantially large...

As of yesterday the iPhone Developer Program License reads : 3.3.1 - Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by...

Lets talk about iSCSI for a moment, as a launching point for a discussion about data integrity. iSCSI relies on CRC32 to catch data corrup...

Just before Easter weekend Serious Eats published an excellent recipe for Peepshi. I highly recommend it. Their presentation is much better...