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  A brief guide to tech internships

Planning to be an Intern in the Bay Area during Summer 2012? Make sure to read an Intern's Guide to the Bay Area, and join the 2012 Facebook group.  (via this guy, via this guy) Joel Spolsky, from the Joel On Software blog and StackOverflow, wrote an article with Advice for Computer Science College Students back in '05. According to Joel,  No matter what you do, get a good summer internship. As such: here’s everything you ever wanted to know about tech inter...

   Internship,Advice,CS student     2012-02-01 04:48:31

  Signs that you're a bad programmer

1. Inability to reason about codeReasoning about code means being able to follow the execution path ("running the program in your head") while knowing what the goal of the code is.SymptomsThe presence of "voodoo code", or code that has no effect on the goal of the program but is diligently maintained anyway (such as initializing variables that are never used, calling functions that are irrelevant to the goal, producing output that is not used, etc.)Executing idempotent functions multiple times (...

   Sign,Programmer,Characteristics,Knowledge,Skill     2011-10-20 08:56:16

  About .NET memory leak--GC,Delegate and weak reference

Memory leak is always a headache for many programmers, the situation is much better now in some languages which have GC mechanism, but still we may face some memory leak issues when we write programs. 1. What is memory leak? Memory leak is not that the memory chip is broken. In short, it's about that the memory requested is not released at the expected time as an expect way. So what is the expected time? This is very important for you to understand memory leak. If the time an object taking the m...

   .NET,GC,Reference counting,Mark and sweep,Weak reference     2013-05-25 12:59:09

  IBM acquires Ustream to propel its cloud business

On January 21, 2016, IBM acquired Ustream, a leading live and on-demand video solution company, to propel its cloud service business. This acquisition will make IBM capable of providing enterprise live video stream service to the world. With this, a new member joining the IBM cloud service family. Ustream provides cloud-based video streaming to enterprises and broadcasters for everything from corporate keynotes to live music concerts. The company streams live and on-demand video to about 80 mil...

   IBM,CLOUD,IBM CLOUD,USTREAM     2016-01-23 06:18:36

  Fix SSL 'alert protocol version' issue while git clone remote repository

Git provides ways to securely connect to remote repository and clone remote repository to local machine. This post will teach you how to fix the "SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version" issue while cloning a remote repository. The issue would look like: If this error occurs, it is most probably caused by out of date git version being used.To improve its security awareness, some weak cryptographic algorithms have been disabled and all git clients should upgrade to latest ones to acc...

   GIT,GIT CLONE,GIT SECURITY     2018-07-08 05:41:39

  Baidu is in a deadly crisis

In past few days, there was some news about Baidu(China's Google) which put this search engine giant in China in a devastating position. The news is about that the owners of a Tieba(Similar to Google Group) were replaced by a sponsored organization without notifying the original owners. This irritated the original owners of the Tieba and also the public. People are complaining that Baidu is doing something ridiculous and evil. The name of the Tieba group which was sold by Ba...

   BAIDU,NEWS,CHINA     2016-01-13 07:56:17

  Privileged users get removed from database in GoDaddy shared hosting

GaDaddy is a famous web hosting platform where many people put their websites on its platform. If one has low budget and wanna a shared hosting, you can buy the service at GoDaddy and share some hosting resource with others. In such cases, there would be resource limit based on different plans. In this post, we will discuss one scenario which caused our application down caused by database usage on shared hosting plan and hope it helps readers who encounter similar issues. The issue we encounter...

   CPANEL,DATABASE,GODADDY,PRIVILEGED USER     2021-05-25 23:06:50

  Is Toutiao taking general content creators seirously?

Tiktok is now very popular among the Z-generation around the world. This is an app created by the Chinese company ByteDance. In China, the Chinese version of Tiktok called Douyin is not the only popular app created by ByteDance, there are a few other apps created by ByteDance are also popular such as Jinri Toutiao, a news app famous for its recommendation algorithm similar to Tiktok, also Huoshan Video, another video app similar to YouTube. This Toutiao app encourages general people to create co...

   JINRI TOUTIAO,CONTENT CREATION,TOUTIAO,BYTEDANCE     2021-10-03 01:10:27

  Chinese Developers Release CEC-IDE, Claimed as First Independently Developed IDE

China witnessed the recent launch of a new IDE called CEC-IDE, which boldly claims to be the first IDE independently developed by Chinese developers. Initially, this release was anticipated to be a moment of pride for the country, as it marked the availability of a homegrown IDE. However, the situation quickly took an embarrassing turn, and the entire narrative soon became a subject of ridicule. It has come to light that the so-called independently developed IDE, CEC-IDE, is actually built upon ...

   CHINA,CECIDE,CEC-IDE     2023-08-27 00:43:31

  Find where the start up page is set in Firefox

Recently I encountered a weird behavior where a strange webpage showing up every time when I launched my Firefox. The first thought came into my mind is that my homepage of Firefox had been tampered. It might be changed because some software changed my browser settings to promote something. So the next immediate thing I went to check was to see my Firefox browser settings. To my surprise, the homepage setting was not touched. It would still open the Momentum screen which would display some beaut...

   WINDOWS,FIREFOX,HOMEPAGE,STARTUP PAGE,HAO123     2021-10-02 02:28:53

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