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This blog post contains come comments about finding all triangles whose sizes are integers and the area/perimeter ratio is the integer r . T...

This blog post summarizes what I learned about C++ today about how the lifetime of temporaries is extended because of references. Normally ...

This blog post explains how to overwrite the git committer name, git committer e-mail and git committer date in previous commits in a git re...

This blog post gives you advice to make the best use of your time for learning how to program and enjoying programming in your pre-college y...

This blog post lists the best books I can recommend to students who want to learn how to program. Please note that programming is more about...

Dear Student, This is your life. Make it happy, productive and full for yourself! The smarter and more skilled you are, the more choices a...

This blog post explains the difference between StaticPython and PyRun . Both StaticPython and PyRun are free, portable binary distribution...

This blog post explains how to write C++ code which parses integers, in a type-safe way for any integral type, paying attention to overflows...

This blog post announces ssweb , a single-shot HTTP server library in Python 2.x. Single-shot means is that the webserver accepts only a sin...

This blog post explains how to convert the protocol from http:// to https:// in YouTube URLs in the browsing history of a Mozilla Firefox pr...

This blog post explains how to register C or C++ code to be run at process startup (i.e. just before *main*) and process exit (e.g. when *ma...

This blog post is the formal announcement of mplaylist , and audio playlist player using mplayer, with checkpointing. mplaylist is Python s...

This blog post explains how to configure your web browser (Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome) to prevent YouTube from redirecting from the ht...

This blog post explains how to remove all files (including their history) from a Git repository, except for files in a whitelist. This can b...

This blog post gives a short executable file size comparison when the same statically linked, i386 ELF executable was compiled with various ...

This blog post announces pts-xstatic, a convenient wrapper tool for compiling and creating portable, statically linked Linux i386 executable...

This blog post explains how to detect integer overflow (and underflow) in C and C++ addition and subtraction, and it also gives example code...

This blog post shows and explains C++ source code implementing in-place set intersection, i.e. removing each element from a set (or another ...