# Cell phones with advanced computing capabilities, typically at least requiring fully-featured Internet browsing
...y fast computation. {{w|Folding@home}} and {{w|SETI@home}} are distributed computing projects that aim to solve extremely large computational problems by poolin
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...ce diagram}}, one usually employed for describing network communication in computing. As the messages travel at the speed of light and Proxima Centauri b is ove
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...board}}" with "{{w|leopard}}" in a regex (or {{w|regular expression}}). In computing, a regular expression provides a concise and flexible means to "match" (spe
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...indicate that the browser was able to communicate with a given {{w|Server (computing)|server}}, but the server could not find what was requested. The error may
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...s a {{w|metaphor}}, which compares the reader with a Lisp {{w|Interpreter (Computing)|interpreter}}. The interpreter looks for the parenthesis until the end of
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This puns on the computing sense of "negotiation": network protocols (such as HTTP) often specify rout
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...they are literally identical as far as appearance goes. The apotheosis of computing via a browser is probably the {{w|Chromebook}}, a range of laptops whose op
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...ay itself was good, Stallman worries because the essay was in the {{w|Doc (computing)|.doc}} format, the {{w|Proprietary Software|proprietary format}} that old
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...y, which contains or "stores" the clouds. Last panel is a pun on {{w|cloud computing}} and specifically {{w|cloud storage}}, and looks like a follow up to [[103
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ACM is the {{w|Association for Computing Machinery}}, which at the time of writing sponsored the {{w|ACM Internation
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...on|recursively}}''," and contended that "''thinking about'' [functional] ''computing is one of the most exciting things the human mind can do''."
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...e is performing a "blind search" in his head. When doing a blind search in computing, there are two main tactics—{{w|depth-first search}} (DFS), and {{w|bread
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This comic is a reference to all of the companies that rolled out {{w|Cloud computing|"cloud"}} services like {{w|Google}}'s and {{w|Amazon}}'s music service and
...bandwidth to make that possible, he explains that it's done by {{w|Cache (computing)|caching}}. Caching is an arrangement whereby some data is stored locally i
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...e value of time_t rolls over, that is it will return to zero. time_t is a computing standard measurement of time; it is a count of the number of seconds since
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...ually superhero material, which lends itself to the humor of the comic. In computing, a {{w|regular expression}} ("regex") provides a concise and flexible means
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...without the explicit self-reference. Named after the paradox, a {{w|quine (computing)|quine}} is also a computer program which outputs its own source code.
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...w|General-purpose programming language|general-purpose}}, {{w|Interpreter (computing)|interpreted}}, {{w|dynamic programming language}}s.
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...erformed by {{w|Assembly language#Assembler|assemblers}}, {{w|Interpreter_(computing)|interpreters}}, or {{w|compilers}}.
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...relating the code to his personal life. Finally, he adds an {{w|Assertion (computing)|assertion}}, which is normally a formal specification of a condition that
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...anded devices). Many operating systems offer a standardized {{w|Interface (computing)|interface}} called {{w|POSIX}}, which wraps the services offered by the di
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