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> In a circular linked lists you can have easy access to end of the list. This is not true for circular linked lists in general. A few special cases where this is true: 1. If the l…

Whoa, did Super Mario Bros have a palette of just four colors? Amazing!

Around 8 years ago (the age of Google), perpetual beta was in vogue. So, the answer would have been always . These days (the age of iPhone, since iPhone is largely responsible for …

Read about the life and works of Alan Turing [1]. Not only did he do seminal work for invention of general purpose computer, he actually went on to study the limitations of this th…

Once, during an interview, the interviewer started asking me solutions to very real-world problems which I could immediately understand they must have been facing at that time. A h…

Google has been adding lots of widgets to email recently, like RSVP on invitations, itinerary on flight booking emails, etc. These are pretty useful features and I believe a lot mo…

According to RFC 2617[1], Both Digest and Basic Authentication are very much on the weak end of the security strength spectrum. [1]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617#section-4.4

Thanks! MongoDB and NodeJS are fairly big projects and take some experience to fully appreciate. Even Angular vs Ember is not a trivial decision and its better to have some experie…

Oh yes, I also used to make casual games in flash for social platforms like facebook back in 2009. These days it's OpenGL and mobile. The market size is bigger and user experience …

Since there are a lot of components involved, let's consider them separately instead of discussing the bundle as a whole. This also helps as M-E-A-N are very independent by design …

Disclaimer: I work for Visual Website Optimizer (VWO). Still, I will try to be as neutral as possible. > Bandit tests allow you to run as many variations at the same time as you wa…

> http://domains.google.com > http://domains.google.com/ > https://domains.google.com/ > http://domains.google.com/about/ > https://domains.google.com/about/ > https://domains.goog…

In my original comment, I was not talking about poor service experience of domain name registrars. I was instead talking about the difficulty faced by an average SME owner in setti…

Here in India, and probably in other developing countries too, google is making efforts to get small and medium businesses online. While it has offered easy website creators, the h…

Particularly interesting for game developers who can use it deeply customize maps to fit well into their gaming experience. I am tempted to build a monopoly-like game with the real…

There are so may factors at play in determining the amount of gain from using such a service, e.g., 1. How widespread the usage is. The more widespread it is, the better the chance…

[Edit]: added comment on Mozilla Persona. I would disagree. It's common knowledge (backed by many A/B tests) that shorter sign-up forms see less traffic drop. So, if OAuth can repl…

FxA is primarily for Firefox's own products and services. Mozilla Persona (confusing name - personas is what they called firefox themes as well) is closer.

We already have a fairly good solution to this problem in OAuth. However, current popular implementations of OAuth are third-party owned which is not desirable for many reasons (fo…