Grit in Pursuit of Daunting Challenges — The Essence of a Software Engineer Finding myself in the tail end of my Foundations curriculum at Holberton School, I was faced with a perplexing decision on what my final portfolio project will be, not to mention what type of project I even wanted to do. The sheer amount of possibilities, compounded by my unreasonable amount…

A story about the inner workings of the web stack In this day and age, we may overlook just how vastly information travels when we type in a web address on a computer and get taken right to the website for which we intended. This article seeks to dive in…

Could Privacy be a Thing of the Past? Until the last few decades, the only thing infringing upon our privacy (technology-wise) were CCTV cameras and to an extent, radios. Then came the wave of social-media driven technology stuck in an ever-perpetuating amplification path. Let’s cut to the chase, and bypass…

How the Internet of Things will Transform the Healthcare Field — IoT: The Rise It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when this term become mainstream to the public, with little knowing much about it other than the fact it meant the “Internet of Things”. It seems like it should be self-explanatory, and in a way, it is. However, there is a deeper level of understanding…

30 years ago, if you wanted to invest a couple thousand dollars you would’ve gone to a money, hedge-fund, or any other money manager. Fast forward to now, and you have robo-apps, as they are called, and online investment “managers” that can automate everything that you invest, often leaving the…

Preface Before diving in, it’s important to understand what these libraries are and why we even use them. In my previous article on static libraries, I briefly described the GCC Compilation Process, and how a static library is linked to your executable code directly during the Linking stage. Basically, to recap: …

27.08.2019 — By Yashey Mateen & Jessica Bathel View Original: Jessica ; Yashey What is the shell? Put simply, the shell is a program that allows the user to input and execute system commands. It uses a command prompt: (i.e.) trusty64@ubuntu:~/shell$ to ask for user input/commands and interprets them once they hit ENTER. But…

A C library is a file that consists of various object files that can be used as a single entity during the linking phase while executing a program/function. Since the library has fewer files to look for and open, and since the object files are ordered and indexed, it makes…

So what is the difference between hard link and a symbolic link? In a Unix-like shell environment, a hard link is an entry that associates a file on a directory-based file system. You may give one file multiple names, all of which point to an independent entry on the data disk which is independent on any other file. In the following example…