Like many other software engineers out there, I love XKCD so whenever Randall publishes a comic with something computationally interesting I like to take a stab at it. Friday's comic

Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of working with 'C style' strings aka NULL terminated character arrays. Has at some point stopped and remarked about the terrible choice of implementation when it came to representing string

Regular expressions: those seemingly non-sensical strings of characters that seem to magically take an input string and determine whether it matches a pattern that you have some how supposedly described with the previously mentioned non-sensical string

Many newer object oriented languages such as Java and Swift have a dedicated interface type for defining the methods of a superclass. C++ does not. What C++ does provide is purely virtual classes, which function in ess

A couple of years back I interviewed for an SDE role at Amazon. For those not familiar with the Amazon hiring process, after you pass there screening technical test, and a personality evaluation, the final part before being given an offer involves a mu