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C/C++ Pointer Declaration Syntax – It makes sense!

I never really liked the way pointers are declared in C/C++:

int *a, *b, *c; // a, b and c are pointers to int

The reason is that I am used to reading variable declarations as MyType myVar1, myVar2, myVar3; and I always read “int*” as the type “integer pointer”�. I therefore wanted the following

int* a, b, c; // a is a pointer to int, b and c are ints

##How Homakov hacked GitHub and the line of code that could have prevented it

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One-line Tree in Python

Using Python's built-in defaultdict we can easily define a tree data structure:

def tree(): return defaultdict(tree)

That's it!

	#!/bin/sh

	# ================================================================
	#
	# Convert a mysql database dump into something sqlite3 understands.
	#
	# Adapted from
	# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/489277/script-to-convert-mysql-dump-sql-file-into-format-that-can-be-imported-into-sqlit
	#
	# (c) 2010 Martin Czygan <[email protected]>

	Security Alert - Please reset your npm registry account

	==================================================

	The security of the npm registry has just been upgraded. This corrects a known
	flaw which led to the leakage of the password_sha and salt fields. The good
	news is that the leak is plugged. The bad news is that it existed for quite a
	while.

	tl;dr

	// float->sRGB8 conversions - two variants.
	// by Fabian "ryg" Giesen
	//
	// I hereby place this code in the public domain.
	//
	// Both variants come with absolute error bounds and a reversibility and monotonicity
	// guarantee (see test driver code below). They should pass D3D10 conformance testing
	// (not that you can verify this, but still). They are verified against a clean reference
	// implementation provided below, and the test driver checks all floats exhaustively.
	//

	#!/usr/bin/env sh

	##
	# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
	#
	# install it:
	# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh \| sh
	#

	using System;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.IO;
	using System.Linq;
	using System.Text;

	namespace SuffixTreeAlgorithm
	{
	public class SuffixTree
	{

	# Connman Technology API examples: (Object Path: /net/connman/technology/<wifi/ethernet>, Interface: net.connman.Technology)
	# GetProperties
	dbus-send --system --dest=net.connman --print-reply /net/connman/technology/wifi net.connman.Technology.GetProperties

	# Scan
	dbus-send --system --dest=net.connman --print-reply /net/connman/technology/wifi net.connman.Technology.Scan

	# Disable/Enable wifi
	dbus-send --system --dest=net.connman --print-reply /net/connman/technology/wifi net.connman.Technology.SetProperty string:Powered variant:boolean:true