This is the thirteenth post in an article series about MIT’s lecture course “Introduction to Algorithms.” In this post I will review lectures twenty and twenty-one on parallel algorithms. These lectures cover the basics of multithreaded programming and multithreaded algorithms. Lec...

I have found some new geek songs to post on my Musical Geek Friday. This week it’s a song called Hax That Fsck. It’s a hip-hop/rap song about a hacker getting owned by FBI and his adventures in hacking Gibson and CIA. The song is written by Finnish band called “Leech Axss“. T...

This is the twelfth post in an article series about MIT’s lecture course “Introduction to Algorithms.” In this post I will review a trilogy of lectures on graph and shortest path algorithms. They are lectures seventeen, eighteen and nineteen. They’ll cover Dijkstra’s Al...

This is the third and final part of an article on the famous sed one-liners. This part will explain sed one-liners for selective deletion of certain lines and special applications of sed. See part one for introduction of the series. Similarly to famous Awk one-liners, sed one-liners are short and co...

Musical Geek Friday is back! This week we have a geek song about the most cruel way to kill a process - killing it with kill -9! Kill -9 song is written by Monzy. Monzy’s real name is Dan Maynes-Aminzade and he is a Ph.D. student at Stanford. Here is an article on Wired about him. In his songs...

This is the eighth post in an article series about MIT’s lecture course “Introduction to Algorithms.” In this post I will review lecture twelve, which introduces an efficient search structure called Skip Lists. Skip lists are an efficient data structure that can be used in place of...

Inspired by the success of my “Awk One-Liners Explained” article (30,000 views in first three days), I decided to explain the famous sed one-liners as well. These one-liners, just like the Awk one-liners, are compiled by Eric Pement. You may download them here: sed one-liners (link to .t...

This week on Musical Geek Friday - the famous BitTorrent Song! The song is written and performed by Brent Simon. Brent describes himself as a super nerd who plays the synth and makes original music that’s honest and from the heart. He keeps composing and his latest music can be found on his My...

I found a Google Talk on a topic that’s related to the motto of my blog - “good coders code, great reuse“. In this talk, professor Tao Xie speaks about his research on using public code repositories together with code search engines for finding common API usage patterns and anti-pa...

Here are more hacker videos (previous post was on Defcon videos). This time they are from Shmoocon hacker conference. They put out videos from 2006, 2007 and they are putting out videos from 2008 pretty soon. Shmoocon, as they describe themselves, is an annual East coast hacker convention hell-bent ...