...ood" when you convert a source file (such as a C or C++ file) into an executable file (an executable file is a file that can be executed on your machine or someone else's machine running the same machine architecture). Under the hood, when a program is compiled, the compiler converts the source fi...

... store sha512(password), you're not doing a thing to guard against rainbow tables or brute force attacks. Remember, the hash function was designed for speed. So it's trivial for an attacker to just run a dictionary through the hash function and test each result. Adding a salt helps matters since i...

...rtion of an URL. If you use Wikipedia, you will see that most pages have a table of contents and you can jump to sections within the document with an anchor, such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Early_computers_and_the_Turing_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing identifies ...

...s that define which implicits are visible and which are not. The following table showing where the compiler will search for implicits was taken from an excellent presentation about implicits by Josh Suereth, which I heartily recommend to anyone wanting to improve their Scala knowledge. It has been c...

...er(). It's a bit clunky, but due to a PHP quirk (it keeps an internal hashtable of all loaded functions), it allows Drupal to quickly check for listeners just by iterating over a list of installed plugins. For each plugin it can call function_exists() on the appropriately named pattern, and call th...

... 15 CMOV Conditional Move Instruction 16 PAT Page Attribute Table 17 PSE-36 36-bit Page Size Extension 18 PSN Processor serial number is present and enabled 19 CLFSH CLFLUSH Instruction 20 Reserved 21 DS Debug Store 22 ACPI Thermal...

..., W. Richard Stevens) In most C-derived languages, TCP connections are established and manipulated using methods on an instance of a Socket class. Although it is common to operate on a higher level of abstraction, typically an instance of a NetworkStream class, this generally exposes a reference t...

...linker will not link to libraries that are not actually needed by the executable (and it detects this from left to right). My recent archlinux distribution doesn't use this flag by default, so it didn't give an error for not following the correct order. It is not correct to omit the dependency of b...

...lication but this is one of the unique features that Node.js brings to the table. So, again if you run your node application, it will run in just a single thread. No matter if you have 1 or million users accessing your application at the same time. So let's understand exactly what happens in the si...

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