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Falsehoods programmers believe about time, in a single list · GitHub

Why spreadsheets have resulted in some genes getting new names, plus poisons mistakenly taken from Zelda in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up

DANGER! Do not run this command to 'test' it unless you are prepared for a crash and/or force-rebooting your system. I was in my Virtualbox running 12.04 trying to compile an app, and while waitin...

A catalogue of software constructs, languages, or APIs which are unexpectedly Turing-complete; implications for security and reliability.

Millions of developers use a programming language today that was created in just 10 days during the hustle and bustle

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In general, sleep sort works by starting a separate task for each item to be sorted, where each task sleeps for an interval corresponding to the item's sort key...

Rowhammer blog post (draft) Posted by Mark Seaborn, sandbox builder and breaker, with contributions by Thomas Dullien, reverse en...

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Someone told me that I can't parse XML with regexes, and I just had to prove them wrong.

Toasters, pianos and trucks all pitching in to keep the 1993 game alive.

Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory.