Often Unused Operators: |= (or equals)

I’ve debated before the usefulness of the | and & operators. The use of the | operator depends on the context in which it is used. In the case of bools a boolean operation is performed. In the case of ints a bitwise OR is performed. For boolean operations when the | operator is used […]

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Linear Operations

<rant> We all know O(n) = O(2n), right?  I mean, we’re talking about how algorithms scale here.  Linear is linear.  I add 100 more elements to my dataset and the time to finish what ever I was doing scales linearly. Now that’s all fine and good but think a bit when working with code. Just […]

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Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

Follow the below link, read it, consume it, grok it. 2009 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors (If it doesn’t come up be patient. It looks like the server is getting hit pretty hard with bloggers like myself linking to it.) Or read a summary of it and then go to the link over […]

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