subnormal numbers

There is finally a 1.0 version of hadoop. One of my biggest complaints using hadoop since version 0.10 is that something breaks with every r...

I really wish people would be more careful when using the auto-completion features of IDEs. Though auto-completion does provide some time sa...

Ok, so I need to select the top-K values from a list of size N where K is much smaller than N. Two approaches that immediately come to mind ...

If you are using python to write a script, please properly handle the broken pipe exception. We have set of command line tools at work that ...

One of the perks of using scala is that I hardly ever see a NullPointerException unless I'm working with java libraries. The primary rea...

It is Halloween so I figured I should post some scary pictures. For some reason the plastic coating on the mini-usb cable that came with my ...

You typically hear the expression man in the middle in the context of an attack where someone is actively eavesdropping on communications t...