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Three bugs in the Go MySQL driver
Check out what we learned from shipping our busiest Go service in production—we found 3 bugs in the Go MySQL driver.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 267 posts.
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So you want to write your own CSV code (2014)
So You Want To Write Your Own CSV code? Fields separated by commas and rows separated by newline. Easy right? You can write the code yourself in just a few lines.
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How to make roguelike games in Rust
This tutorial is free and open source, and all code uses the MIT license - so you are free to do with it as you like. My hope is that you will enjoy the tutorial, and make great games!
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Fast 2D Rendering on GPU
Previously on my quest for fast rendering of 2D vector graphics on GPU, I have posted a piet-gpu update and a deeper exploration into a sort-middle architecture. These intermediate results showed promise, but fell short of my vision for truly high performance 2D GPU rendering.
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The Polygons of Another World: Super Nintendo
This article is part of a study about the ports of Another World. It is highly recommended to read Another World 101 before reading this.
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Memory Bandwidth Napkin Math
An exploration into C++ memory throughput performance.
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Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice
When I ask people at trendy big tech companies why algorithms quizzes are mandatory, the most common answer I get is something like "we have so much scale, we can't afford to have someone accidentally write an O(n^2) algorithm and bring the site down" 1 . One thing I find funny about this is, even though a decent…
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A Picture of Java in 2020
This year Java hit an incredible milestone and reached the grand old age of 25 years. We celebrated its jubilee by running a special online Java day event, where lots of expert speakers shared their e
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A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival
A short story about SQL's better rival: Michael Stonebraker's storied query language, QUEL.
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Being good at coding competitions correlates negatively with job performance
A couple of days ago I watched a How Computers Learn talk by Peter Norvig. In this talk, Peter talked about how Google did machine learning and at one point he mentioned that at Google they also applied machine learning to hiring. He said that one thing that was surprising to him was that being a winner at…
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The compositor is evil
First, I want to make it clear that I’m not accusing the compositor of true evil, which I define roughly as deliberately causing suffering. There’s unfortunately too much of that in the world. I mean it in the more metaphorical sense that it causes serious problems and forces other parts of the system to be more…
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How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2020
I last wrote in December 2019 about my work on speeding up the Rust compiler. Time for another update.
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React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. Today, we are publishing the first Release Candidate for React 17. It has been two and a half years since the previous major release of React, which is a long time even by our standards! In this blog post, we will describe the role of this…
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A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox
WebGPU is an emerging API, designed from the ground up within the W3C, to provide access to the graphics and computing capabilities of hardware on the web.
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Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (2018)
AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language — Revisited
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Kotlin becomes second most popular language on the JVM
Snyk's annual JVM ecosystem report presents the results of the largest annual survey on the JVM ecosystem, which gathered over 2000 responses in the second half of 2019.
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See Python, See Python Go, Go Python Go (2016)
Andrey Petrov is the author of urllib3, the creator of Briefmetrics and ssh-chat, and a former Googler and YCombinator alum. He’s here to tell us of a...
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A Defer Mechanism for C
An overview of a paper that presents a reference implementation of a defer mechanism (co-authored with Robert C. Seacord) has been accepted for publication at SAC’21. The full version is avai…
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SwiftUI Defaults Considered Harmful
A few notes on SwiftUI and why UI frameworks should not try to be “smart”
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A principled approach to system design and programming
Technical maxims that define Urbit's approach to engineering.
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Testing Sync at Dropbox
Executing a full rewrite of the Dropbox sync engine was pretty daunting. (Read more about our goals and how we made the decision in our previous post here .) Doing so meant taking the engine that powers Dropbox on hundreds of millions of user’s machines and swapping it out mid-flight. To pull this off, we knew we…
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Using TLA+ in the Real World to Understand a Glibc Bug
TLA+ is a formal specification language that you can use to verify programs. It’s different from other formal verification systems in that it’s very pragmatic. Instead of writing proofs…
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Jailed Just-in-Time Compilation on iOS
Saagar Jha's website.
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Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL Are Compatible
CockroachDB is PostgreSQL compatible in order to be accessible to an ecosystem of drivers, existing code, and developer knowledge.