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1. 1Minus Seventeen Modulo Five Has Two Different Answers17 mod 5 is 2 everywhere. −17 mod 5 is −2 in JavaScript, C and Java, and 3 in Python, Ruby and a spreadsheet. Both are right, and the difference is a real bug.
2. 2What Is UTF-8 and Unicode? Code Points, Byte Encoding, and Why UTF-8 WonUnicode assigns every character a code point; UTF-8 encodes those code points in one to four bytes. Here is how it works and why it beat the alternatives.
3. 3Big O Notation for Beginners: O(1), O(n), O(n squared), and O(log n) ExplainedBig O describes how an algorithm's work grows as input grows. Here is what O(1), O(n), O(n squared), and O(log n) mean and why the difference matters.