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Over the last few years, static type checkers have become available for popular dynamic languages like PHP (Hack) and JavaScript (Flow and TypeScript), and have seen wide adoption. Two years ago, a provisional syntax for static type annotations was added to Python 3. However, static types in Python …
I will attempt to convince you, in two lines of code, that Elixir is more interesting than any programming language you’ve ever used.
This post describes four projects that share a common theme of enhancing or using generative models, a branch of unsupervised learning techniques in machine learning. In addition to describing our work, this post will tell you a bit more about generative models: what they are, why they are important, and where they…
When Mac OS X first launched they did so without an existing poll function. They later added poll() in Mac OS X 10.3, but we quickly discovered that it was broken (it returned a non-zero value when asked to wait for nothing) so in the curl project we added a check in configure for that … Continue reading poll on mac…
Rust + Ruby, Without The Glue. This post is a write-up of the talk I gave at RailsConf 2016. You can find the slides [https://speakerdeck.com/chancancode/turbo-rails-with-rust] here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a lot to love about Ruby – the sweet syntax…
The "design patterns" movement in software claims to have been inspired by the works of architect Christopher Alexander. But an examination of Alexander's books reveals that he was actually talking about something much more interesting.
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Build 3103 is out now. Downloads and a full changelog are on the Sublime Text 3 page.
https://notebooks.azure.com/library/rJUgQ81mnpo In 3 months, Python 3 will be better supported than Python 2. Are you using Python 3 for your development?
A git feature branch is a temporary branch used for development or testing purposes. Learn about the best way to manage them using this guide!
Each Erlang process has its own stack and heap which are allocated in the same memory block. When the stack and the heap meet, the garbage collector is triggered and memory is reclaimed. Find out more on our blog.
Good projects are automated projects. But documenting all those Make targets in a README file doesn't make much sense, when you can make the Makefile auto-documented.
This is a progress report on the Go toolchain improvements during the 1.7 development cycle. All measurements were taken using a Thinkpad x220, Core i5-2520M, running Ubuntu 14.04 linux.
Hi, I’m Jim ‘Anodoin’ Merrill, and I work on test automation efforts for League of Legends , focused specifically on the in-game experience. I currently serve as the tech captain to the Build Verification System Development (BVS-Dev) team.…
For the past two months I've been spending half my time on Tauthon . Tauthon is a backwards-compatible Python interpreter that runs Python 2 code and C-extensions exactly as-is, while also allowing Python 2 programmers to use the most exciting new language features from Python 3. These new backported language features…
A while ago, I bought the book “ The Go Programming Language ” written by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan. I have always been a fan of Brian Kernighan’s writings. I should admit that I bought the book mainly for his great examples and writings than for the Go language itself, but since then have got interested in the…
Personal Blog of Will Drevo
As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old code slowly over time? In order to understand this, I built a little thing to analyze Git projects, with help from the formidable GitPython project.
A space efficient UTF-8 binary-to-text encoding
Welcome to the brand new tutorial series - “Design and Implementation of a Win32 Text Editor!” The purpose of these tutorials is to follow the development of a …
Portability and Robustness issues commonly found in shell scripts
Everybody counts, but not always quickly. This post looks into how the PostgreSQL database optimizes counting. In Postgres, there are ways to count orders of magnitude faster. We’ll look at exact counts (distinct counts) as well as estimated counts, using approximation algorithms such as HyperLogLog (HLL) in Postgres.
I wanted to know how a modern C compiler like clang would process the following C code: #include <stdint.h> int count(uint64_t x) { int v = 0; while(x != 0) { x &= x - 1; v++; } return v; } Can you guess? popcntq %rdi, %rax That is right. A fairly sophisticated C function, … Continue reading The surprising cleverness…
OCaml 4.03 is branched and a first release candidate is imminent, so it seems like a good time to take stock of what’s coming.
