Stories by nikbackm

The promises and challenges of std::async task-based parallelism in C++11

1,500 Windows 3.1 shareware apps are now free, immortalized on your browser

The Windows 3.x Showcase

Have high expectations for your computers

Messy Structs/Classes in a Functional Style

Shootout redux: Smartphone camera vs. tricked-out DSLR, one year later

One of C++ most underrated features: Namespace aliases

Israel’s electric grid hit by “severe” hack attack

Internet of Things security is so bad, there’s a search engine for sleeping kids

Dropbox’s new Windows 10 app shows the highs and lows of the platform

Humans aren’t as cooperative as we thought, but make up for it via stupidity

Phone crypto scheme “facilitates undetectable mass surveillance”

Star’s bizarre optical antics go back at least a century

We narrowly missed a new ice age, and now we won’t see one for a long time

Caning of Charles Sumner

Modern C++ Features – keyword `noexcept`

Five reasons you should use SQLite in 2016

Five years later, Thunderbolt is finally gaining some traction in PCs

Standards organization accepts completion of last row of periodic table

The trouble with 'floor' and 'ceil'

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