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Nobody likes to fix the mistakes another person has made due to incompetence, laziness or simply by accident. But when you yourself are that person...

This year's line-up of the Hacken Open Air is probably the best one ever: The headliners sudo's Priest and Gnutallica will set the Black Hat Stage ...

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As we all know, hindsight is 20/20. This universally applicable wisdom can also be used to describe informatics, especially debugging (i.e. testing...

Imagine that you’ve just created a model that allows different technical systems to communicate with each other and that features different layers ...

As we all know, silent waters run deep. While software development does not exactly have anything to do with water, the basic principle of the sayi...

Even a computer scientist/genius/geek/nerd (delete as appropriate!) has to take a vacation every now and then. He/she leaves the familiar lab, offi...

Layer 8 of the OSI model for network protocols is almost exclusively used in a joking manner to imply that most problems are not problems of the sy...

If there is any profession entirely deserving of their own drinking song, it’s programmers.The so-called “Programmer’s Drinking Song”, a modificati...

Basically, programming has a lot in common with Lego: on the one hand, it's worth starting at a young age (keyword: practice makes perfect), and on...

If one were to believe the genre legends Run DMC, hip-hop really does have one thing in common with informatics: It's tricky! While the trio of Run...

Something you may not know is that computer scientists have to deal with all sorts of trees. Quite often, the most common being the so-called binar...

Nobody likes to fix the mistakes another person has made due to incompetence, laziness or simply by accident. But when you yourself are that person...

Have you ever thought about the proper way to drink coffee? Sure, you might think: "Pour coffee into the mug, lift the mug, drink, repeat as necess...

Turns out that most nerds do actually care about nature and know a lot about the evil “outside world”. So much so that even parts of the Unix archi...

There are a few unwritten rules everybody in IT should always follow. And trust us, if you decide to ignore these rules, you definitely won't want ...

One nice aspect of mastering a language that not everyone understands is the possibility of being able to make a lot of inside jokes. This is espec...

As we all know, still waters run deep. While software development does not exactly have anything to do with water, still the basic principle of the...

Everyone who speaks a language with special characters knows the problem: Wrong encoding.

All users of a unix-like operating systems (Linux, Mac, BSD, etc) should know what a fork bomb is. A fork bomb is a program which creates so many c...

Programmers who use pointers should be careful because they aren't far away from hell ;) At least that's what the 2nd of the 10 commandme...

Basically, programming has a lot in common with Lego: on the one hand, it's worth starting at a young age (keyword: practice makes perfect), and on...

Comments in code are massively overrated. Those who are in the know don't need extra explanations.

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To understand recursion, you have to understand recursion first.

At times, we reach the point where our brain just refuses to function properly and even the simplest tasks are impossible to complete. Most program...

When programmers have worked too long on a project, or when you ask them how the code they worked on actually functions, their favorite answer will...

Sure, table based layouts should be avoided at all costs, but, if you ever make a layout for Firefox which took several hours of hard work and trie...

The word 'hacker' in Japanese, on a T-shirt. The characters are pronounced "hakka" (with a short pause between the k: "hak...

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Look again!Even on t-shirts, the number of bugs increases by the day. All getDigital t-shirts are of course way past the beta phase ;)

On January 19, 2038, exactly on 03:14:07 (GMT) the 32-bit Unix time variable will be completely filled!Unix-like systems store the time as the numb...

When it's done, it's done and everything will run the way you expect it to run. Well, in theory...In a couple of months, you might have to make som...

When trying out a new programming language, the words Hello, world are likely to be the first two that are entered for a short test to check what&#...

This year's line-up of the Hacken Open Air is probably the best one ever: The headliners sudo's Priest and Gnutallica will set the Black Hat Stage ...