Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 251 posts.
One of the most annoying problems in Swift is when the compiler gives an 'Expression was too complex to be solved in a reasonable time' error. I look at why this error occurs, how to avoid it and talk about how this should be solved in a future compiler update.
You mean the one where he says that he tried it for a few months and then gave up? Yes, I read it.
C++ has changed a lot in recent years. The last two revisions, C++11 and C++14, introduce so many new features that, in the words of Bjarne Stroustrup, “It feels like a new …
This is the first article in a series dedicated to multiple dispatch - an advanced abstraction technique available to programmers out-of-the-box in some languages, and implementable in others. This first post in the series presents the technique and explains the problem it intends to solve. It uses C++ as the…
Kind people already sent donations that will make my childrens' lives easier, when I'm not there any more. Thank you enormously! :-)
Cyrille Rossant,
This is going to be long and rambling. If you're going to read it, you may want to wait until you're ill, and can't get out of bed, and your head is filled with cotton, and you're eating painkillers like they were candy. I don't want you to feel pain while reading. Being unconscious and having a speech synthesizer…
Definition: The Fibonacci sequence is defined as \(F(0) = 0\), \(F(1) = 1\), and \(F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2)\) for \(n ≥ 2\). So the sequence (starting with \(F(0)\)) is 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ….
On 22 June 2016, Unicode version 9.0 was published . As part of that, 4 new symbols were introduced – and another one was re-purposed.
Why GitLab went with Vue.js
iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm
(A true story.) Philip (President): Our factory is underutilized by 10%. Either we start building more of our backlog or we lay people off. I'd rather keep everyone busy, build inventory, and get...
You can’t write serious applications in vanilla JavaScript without hitting a complexity wall. But a compiler can do it for you.
Back when crypto/tls was slow and net/http young, the general wisdom was to always put Go servers behind a reverse proxy like NGINX. That’s not necessary anymore!
How my quest to make a business card sized raytracer got a little out of hand.
A tutorial on how to write a Unix shell in C.
An easy bit of Bash configuration that will log your bash history to dated log files so you can refer back to them at any point in the future.
Rust claims to enable abstraction without overhead. How does that claim hold up in practice?
Some general warnings about the use of str.format in Python.
Thoughts on software engineering from Rob Bell
This week we released our authorisation flow making it possible for you to go from building apps that talk to your bank account, to building apps that can talk to any bank account. This is huge. Check out this SMS bot (how on trend) I hacked up yesterday morning. (and don’t forget to join the beta wait list ).
WebKit’s new feature policy is to implement experimental features unprefixed, behind a runtime flag.
