Why is there more talent in lower ranks than in management?

At generally unmotivated companies, why can you find more motivation and talent in the lowest ran...

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Removing Malware and Bloatware from Lenovo K3 Note (K50-T5)

I’ve recently purchased a Lenovo K3 Note from Gearbest and it came with preinstalled malware and ...

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How to remove adware (browser hijack or pop-up malware) from Android

The browser hijack style malware is getting pretty widespread on Android devices, especially the ...

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Apple Swift language - crash course & language reference

Apple recognised that Objective-C is not only not modern but very much not appealing to developers who are used to modern languages. As thi...

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Taming Zookeeper - introduction and “how to” for Java and Python

Zookeeper is one of the most versatile projects out there but still somewhat underutilized and fe...

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Beating the binary search algorithm – interpolation search, galloping search

Binary search is one of the simplest yet most efficient algorithms out there for looking up data i...

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Java 8 parallel sort - internals

Java 8 is a quite big update to the platform and luckily they focused on multicore systems too. T...

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Git cheat sheet - the most useful commands

After a little practise, Git can be fully utilised from the command line without any GUI. Adding, committing, pulling, and pushing is part ...

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Creating a simple TCP server in Java and using it from Python – to use the Stanford POS tagger

As the advanced network protocols flood the market we forgot how easy it is to create a simple se...

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Drawing circle and calculating sinus function without trigonometry, power, or root

The formula of a circle is quite straightforward ( r=sqrt(x^2+y^2) ) but it's not trivial how t...

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Dutch national flag problem - performance in Python and C (two pivot partition, three way partition)

One of the typical interview questions is the three way partitioning, also known as the Dutch nat...

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Introsort algorithm in .NET 4.5 – internal implementation details

Even though introspective sort was invented in 1997 (by David Musser) and was taken on  by many f...

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Async-Await in .NET is not for performance – it’s for readability

While I see the LINQ on the .NET platform one of the best if not the best language feature, I thi...

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