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Some video streaming websites like YouTube provides an option for speeding up/slowing down videos; some don’t. The trick is simple, find out the Video object via document.querySelector("video") and then set its playbackRate property to the desired value document.querySelector("video").playbackRate = 2.0; […]
Java has fewer quirks compared to C++, but sometimes I do come across surprises. A code like following will fail to compile since you are trying to initialize a variable with an uninitialized variable. public class Sample { private final […]
Infrastructure – Architecture & Performance Android Vitals – More visibility in Google Play dev console on battery drain, wakelocks being held for too long, ANRs, crashes, dropped frames, and frozen frames. Architecture components – better handling of the lifecycle, Room (ORM for […]
%f in user-facing strings is dangerous. Depending on the architecture, programming language involved, version of that language and compiler optimization flags, results can vary slightly. And if there are multiple languages involved in the serving stack, it is almost impossible […]
One argument which some people might give in favor of using tabs is that it allows the viewer to decide how the code should appear to them. And hence, it separates the logic (indentation) from its appearance. The biggest flaw […]
int getTextFileSize(String fileName) { return (int) (new File(BASE_DIR, fileName).length(); // WRONG } A 32-bit signed int can deal with ~2GB worth of data. And if your code is not going to deal with files larger than 2GB, why worry? But what […]
There are two choices while writing on this topic. One is to write a detailed and accurate port. The other is to write a short post. I preferred the second approach and had added appropriate links to dig further. Target […]
If you are looking for how to avoid or recover: read this one instead. In the past few weeks, a lot of Facebook users have received the following (or similar) messages posted by their friends Hi Friends see Face-book images […]
So, you believe there are bugs in your C/C++ code or you have encountered SEGFAULT while executing your code. What will you do? write a lot of printf statements at various places in your code under suspicion OR use gdb […]
This is meant to be a small guide (though not exhaustive) for students beginning to program on Linux system. Particularly for those, who have done extensive C/C++ programming in Windows, using the Borland/Turbo interface or the Visual C++ interface, and […]