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I drafted this text around 10 years ago, but was not satisfied, hoping to finish it. However didn't have time and energy to complete. So...

Google login dialog does not have the "stay signed-in" checkbox anymore - you session is always persistent. Once logged in, this w...

To prevent a part of our web application from being scanned by search engines and other web crawlers, we add a robots.txt like     User-agen...

Stackoverflow and related sites repeatedly display their cookie confirmation dialog. So many times I had to press "Customize settings&...

- Что делал слон, когда пришел Наполеон? - Уху ел.

копичатка - мелкая ошибка, сделанная в результате копи-паста. Напрмер, забыли заменить всё, требующее замены. Скопировали сточку кода. Пер...

A database storing a bank account with balance $100 is replicated to two nodes. A network partition happens between the nodes. I am withdraw...

Мчится тройка удалая, Тройка сталинская

(Предлагаю смотреть 40 секунд начиная с этого места.)

How to automatically transform any imperative code into a functional code? Think for a moment before opening the answer: ...

One javascript feature I learned while working on POCL . Consider: function foo() {     try {         throw 'hello'     } cat...