the basics

Huffman Coding And Huffman Trees: How Computers Compress Text [The Basics - S01E03]

Computers store text (or, at least, English text) as eight bits per character. There are plenty of more efficient ways that could work: s...

Gabe Pérez 18 Dec, 2017

FizzBuzz: One Simple Interview Question [The Basics - S01E02]

There are a lot of opinions on how to hire coders, and most of them are terrible.

Gabe Pérez 02 Dec, 2017

Encryption Backdoors: Why The Government Shouldn't Break WhatsApp [The Basics - S01E01]

Encryption backdoors - breaking WhatsApp and iMessage's security to let the government stop Bad Things - sounds like a reasonable ide...

Gabe Pérez 06 Nov, 2017