Actor Christopher Walken has such a peculiar speaking style, he's inspired a theater show: All About Walken. The run ends soon, so if you're going to see it, you'll have to act fast.
Okay, so I gave it away in the title, but follow along anyway.
Your program chugs along and then suddenly it crashes like this:
Instantly you recognize the following:
This is a virtual method call.
(Call indirect through register plus offset.)
— Very high confidence.
The vtable is in .
(That is the base register of the ind...
It sounds like the set-up to an old joke, but it's not. It's just one of the random bits of trivia that I wondered about.
For intersections with both high pedestrian and high vehicle volumes, I was able to find the Federal Highway Administration recommendation, which is to give pedestrians a head start to allow them to cross one lane of traffic be...
When you're debugging,
you might have a pointer to a COM interface and want to know
what the underlying object is.
Now, sometimes this trick won't work because the interface pointer
actually points to a stub or proxy,
but in the case where no marshalling is involved, it works great.
(This technique also works for many C++ compilers for
any object ...
Shankar Vedantam wrote a Washington Post article and also appeared on NPR to discuss The Decoy Effect: Given a choice between two options, introducing a third, clearly inferior, option can influence your original decision. You won't pick the third option, but a clever choice of the bad third option can sway the decision toward either of the oth...
You may be called in to study a problem in code you've never seen before
or be asked to look over a proposed change to some code you've never
seen before.
When this happens, you have to take shortcuts in your analysis
because following every function call to the bottom would not only
take far too much time,
but also take you so far away from the c...
Last month, I spent a few hours reading essays written by seventh graders (ages 12 and 13) on the following subject:
Electives are often fun and different from our normal core classes. Imagine you have been chosen to create one new elective for our school. In a multi-paragraph essay, explain what the new elective would be like and what students w...
The next entry in the continuing sporadic series on resource formats is the bitmap. You thought accelerator tables were simple; bitmaps are even simpler. A bitmap resource takes the same form as a file, except that there is no . That's all.
Pea, marble, dime, nickel, quarter, half dollar, walnut, golf ball, hen egg, tennis ball, baseball, teacup, grapefruit, softball.
What is this a list of?
Answer. Note that the list is different in Britain. (Original story that tipped me off to this list.)
