In-depth: Stupid float tricks

In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, Valve Software programmer Bruce Dawson shares a few seemingly "fantastic/improbable" tricks he's picked up with the floating-point format.] I left the last post with a promise to share an interesting property of the IEEE float format. There are several equivalent ways of stating this property, and here are two of them. For floats of the same sign ...

Top 10 Ways to Travel Smarter, Safer, and Cheaper [Lifehacker Top 10]

# lifehackertop10 A vacation can range anywhere from a dream to a nightmare. While some of that depends on circumstance, there's plenty you can do to make your travel easier, more efficient, and more fun. Here are our top 10 favorite tips, tricks, and hacks to help make your next trip really great. More »

Tax season 2012: tips and tricks

There are a few changes you need to know before filing your taxes.

KDE 4.8 adds adaptive power management, new windowing tricks

The KDE community announced version 4.8 of its desktop environment and software bundle for Linux, featuring improved, adaptive power management and new windowing functions.

4 Tricks to Ditch That Holiday Debt

Are you stashing the credit card bills under the junk mail because you’re afraid to see how much you spent over the holidays? Surveys from USA Today and Consumer Reports reveal that we were on track to charge roughly 7% more on credit cards this holiday season. That might not sound like a big increase, [...]