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Yammer moving from Scala to Java
Following up on my recent Scala posts , some commented that because I haven't used Scala seriously, my opinion is of little value. I respo...
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 146 posts.
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POSIX close(2) is broken
There's just one small problem: The way POSIX has defined close(2) is completely and utterly broken.
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Bash Shortcuts For Maximum Productivity
The bash (Readline) shortcuts worth knowing for editing, recalling and controlling commands, plus the ! and ^ history tricks.
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C++ in Coders at Work
One of the topics I asked most of my Coders at Work interviewees about was C++. I am not an expert, or even a competent C++ programmer and recognize that my own opinions about C++ are not well-info…
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The Prime That Wasn’t
Life, technology, and other good things
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Full Instapaper API now available
The full Instapaper API is now available for developers. See the Full API documentation to get started.
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Rob Pike on regular expressions in lexing and parsing
Comments extracted from a code review. I've been asked to disseminate them more widely. I should say something about regular expressio...
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Why Lisp Will Never Win (2003)
For 2003 OSCON I proposed to give nine five-minute talks in a 45-minute slot. To avoid confusing this with the real lightning talks sessions, Nat decided to call my talk ``Nine Views of Mark Jason Dominus''. At first I didn't like that title, which sounded too much like self-promotion. But I warmed up to it after a…
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SQLAlchemy and You
The Django ORM feels so much easier than SQLAlchemy? Maybe this article can change your perception.
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Why code review beats testing: evidence from decades of programming research
tl;dr If you want to ship high quality code, you should invest in more than one of formal code review, design inspection, testing, and quality assurance. Testing catches fewer bugs per hour than human inspection of code, but it might be catching different types of bugs.
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Compiling to λ-calculus
Though it contains forms only for function applications, variable references and anonymous functions, it is equivalent to a Turing machine.
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V8: a tale of two compilers
wingolog: article: v8: a tale of two compilers
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Ewww, You Use PHP?
Browse how-to articles on starting, running, and marketing your business, plus thought-provoking podcasts and films to inspire your inner entrepreneur.
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Building StatHat with Go
How StatHat uses Go, and why they chose it.
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Solving Tetris in C
Exactly one of the following statements is true. In Tetris, you can always get at least one line before losing. In Tetris, a sufficiently evil AI can always force you to lose without getting a single line, by providing bad pieces. Which one? Prove it. The setup I crea...
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What I Learned from Watching Notch Code
Ludum Dare coding secrets: continuous, thorough testing for better user experience. Learn how to level up your game development process!
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Understanding lvalues and rvalues in C and C++
The terms lvalue and rvalue are not something one runs into often in C/C++ programming, but when one does, it's usually not immediately clear what they mean. The most common place to run into these terms are in compiler error & warning messages. For example, compiling the following with gcc :