You’ve probably got a bunch of directories and subdirectories in your home folder that are organized logically, rather than a mess of top-level directories scattered all over the place. Although the former is cleaner and better organized, it also takes more time to get to where you’d like to be. Luckily, linux comes with /usr/bin/locate […]
Near the end of Spring Break, I helped build the back-end for the Daily Cal’s Best of Berkeley voting website. The awards are given to restaurants and organizations chosen via public voting over the period of a week. Somewhere during the development, we decided it’d be more effective to implement fraud detection rather than prevention. […]
So it turns out that one of my professors, whose lectures I attend less frequently than I should, chooses to play classical music at the beginning of lecture when students are walking in. A couple of people started a thread on Piazza back when the course began to identify as many of these tracks as […]
I was on MDN when I noticed that Chrome’s V8 (at least) was little-endian, meaning that a hexadecimal number you’d write as 0xCAFEBABE is actually stored as BE BA FE CA if you read the bytes off memory. It made me wonder how you could most easily determine if your system is little or big […]
GNU/bc is a command-line calculator for linux. It does variables [a-z0-9_]+ and +-*/^ and basic math, all through the terminal, and while it’s somewhat useful by default, it can be made to be a lot better. Reading man bc, you see that the program reads an environmental variable, BC_ENV_ARGS, which refers to a list of […]