Programming Concepts That Were “Automated” By Modern Languages [closed]

Optimizations. For the longest time, it was necessary to do this by hand. Now most compilers can do it infinitely better than any human ever could. Note: This is not to say that hand-optimizations aren’t still done, as pointed out in the comments. I’m merely saying that a number of optimizations that used to be … Read more

iPhone call log / history

Sorry but right now it really can’t be done.. On iOS 5 there isn’t any access to call_history.db -> Which is exactly what you were looking for. The app mentioned here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/callog/id327883585?mt=8 Does not work with iOS 5 (don’t download but check the users’ reviews..) On iOS 4, you might still be able to get … Read more

jQuery UI Tabs back button history

I just ran into this as well. Its really easy with the jquery address plugin here http://www.asual.com/jquery/address/ The demo for tabs seemed a bit over complicated. I just did this: $(‘document’).ready(function() { // For forward and back $.address.change(function(event){ $(“#tabs”).tabs( “select” , window.location.hash ) }) // when the tab is selected update the url with the … Read more

Where does ‘.’ and ‘..’ come from?

Excerpt from an interview with Ken Thompson (9-6-89): Every time we made a directory, by convention we put it in another directory called directory – directory, which was dd. Its name was dd and that all the users directories and in fact most other directories, users maintain their own directory systems, had pointers back to … Read more