R e i n v e n t i n g U N I X ?

Reinventing Unix? 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
By Flavio de Sousa | 17 Aug 2019

The dangers of the 'const' qualifier “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"...
By Flavio de Sousa | 19 Jun 2019

Faster Decimal Number I/O in C 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...
By Flavio de Sousa | 09 Mar 2014

Poor Man's Backup How about a hand-made rotating backup solution?
By Flavio de Sousa | 22 Aug 2013

Decoding Fake Binary Messages Binary is NOT a sequence of '0' and '1' characters. This is FAKE!
By Flavio de Sousa | 14 Aug 2013