In the real world you will almost never use recursion. You'll use loops with known bounds because the worst case for everything will be known and controlled. There are a handful of guys working in ...

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In this article, we will look at how to identify and fix performance issues in Go programs using the pprof and trace packages. We will begin by covering the fundamentals of the tools, then delving ...

I'm taking an "object-oriented programming" course which has basically turned into a C++ course. In order to familiarize ourselves with the algorithms provided by the stl, we aren't allowed to use any ...

In Hans Christian Andersen's folktale, The Emperor's New Clothes, when a child cries out that the emperor is naked, he isn't revealing a secret. Everyone already knows it. What changes in that instant ...

Human brains can't compute endless loops, so we rely on public cues and shared signals—eye contact, rituals, news headlines—to establish common knowledge without consciously working through each ...