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Recently, I chanced upon this neat solution to a rather simple interview question, that exploits the special property of the binary XOR operation. It leads m...

Homebrew explained

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What is Homebrew Homebrew is the missing package manager for macOS. What does that mean? In layman terms, it is like the Appstore, but for opensource softwa...

How to get external configuration in Spring

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Sometimes we have some configuration data that we need in our code, that can be changed periodically, like mail server information, proxy server, etc. We can...

Enable accented characters on Mac OSX

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I used to be able to type accented characters on Mac OSX by long pressing the character I want to accent. But this functionality was somehow gone after an OS...