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aio - POSIX asynchronous I/O overview

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/aio.7.html

qsort might be general in the element type, but not in the container type. That is, it will only work for arrays. Also without LTO it will be very expensive as it cannot inline the compare function call. C++ sort is just faster and more powerful.

lederhosenon How much your computer can do in a second

You are doing it wrong.

let is better than var (in every way), so you should never ever use var. Of course you can design for the future. Designing for the future is using let and transpile to a dialect that is used by most browsers today.

lederhosenon Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken job interview process

the correct answer would of course be that I would not use an O(n²) algorithm

lederhosenon On the Impending Crypto Monoculture (2016)

Not only is One-time pad proven secure, it is also obvious without any knowledge of math.