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Challenges with distributed systems
The hard realities of distributed systems, partial failures, network faults, and unpredictable latency, and how Amazon designs to handle them.
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Racket-on-Chez Status
posted by Matthew Flatt For background information about Racket on Chez Scheme (a.k.a. Racket CS), see the original announcement, the January 2018 report, the report at Scheme Workshop 2018, the January 2019 report, the ICFP experience report, an...
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State of Clojure 2020
Ten years ago, Chas Emerick ran the first State of Clojure survey. In 2010, most users had been using Clojure for just weeks or months, and few were using it as a language for serious work. This year , we see consistent and growing use for work , steady interest in the key value propositions of Clojure, and an…
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How to write the perfect pull request (2015)
As a company grows, people and projects change. To continue to nurture the culture we want at GitHub, we’ve found it useful to remind ourselves what we aim for when…
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DBLog: A Change-Data-Capture Framework
Andreas Andreakis, Ioannis Papapanagiotou
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Flowcharts of programming language constructs
This article contains the flow-charts of many common programming language constructs that involve distinct combinations of gotos. The goto (or jump) is a basic building block of control flow, therefore most control flow constructs can be modelled using it.
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How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack
Most new things in technology turn out to be fads: patterns of talking and doing that come and go without leaving a permanent mark. Microkernels; EPIC architectures like IA-64; object request brokers; and 1990s’-style neural nets are gone, and will not return. Sorry for the deep throwbacks; only time proves which…
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GitHub CLI is now in beta
We want your feedback about GitHub’s new command line tool that makes it easier to work with GitHub and reduce friction for many of your common workflows.
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Why we need a book about naming
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler
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Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
February 10, 2020 4 minutes read The mythical book, Mythical man month quotes that no matter the programming language chosen, a professional developer will write on average 10 lines of code (LoC) day. After 14 years of full-time development on the tool NDepend I’d like to elaborate a bit here. Let’s start with the…
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Investigating the Performance Overhead of C++ Exceptions
C++ exceptions have their place, but using an alternative is recommended for general program flow control.
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Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support
A behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the Picture-in-Picture player for the Firefox Desktop browser. This feature is now available for MacOS, Linux and Windows users. From the beginning, it's ...
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Stacked Borrows: An Aliasing Model for Rust
Type systems are useful not just for the safety guarantees they provide, but also for helping compilers generate more efficient code by simplifying important program analyses. In Rust, the type system imposes a strict discipline on pointer aliasing, and it is an express goal of the Rust compiler developers to make use…
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Creating Org mode sparse trees in Emacs and organice
When you have lots of information in an Org file, it helps to narrow it down to just the topic that interests you right now. There's many ways to do that depending on what exactly you want to do. Creating an Org mode sparse tree is one of those options!
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Dolphin Progress Report: December 2019 and January 2020
The Progress Report has come and with it some major changes and decisions. However, before we get into new things, we need to go over an ongoing change as we've seen some users struggling. In the last progress report, we updated our project solutions to Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2019. We thought there would be no…
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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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What's SAP?
What's SAP? And why is it worth $163B?
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TeamViewer stores user passwords in registry, encrypted with hard-coded key
Oh man where to even begin with this one. This was a crazy ride and I learned a ton along the way.
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Writing Safe Shell Scripts (2019)
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TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex
Asana engineers are TypeScript fans, and we’ve learned a lot about where TypeScript shines and struggles. Here are 3 of our favorite TypeScript surprises.
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The Rust Compilation Model Calamity
Learn about the benefits of TiDB and the TiDB Cloud solutions from PingCAP. Read our latest post "The Rust Compilation Model Calamity" here.
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Standardizing OpenAI’s deep learning framework on PyTorch
We are standardizing OpenAI’s deep learning framework on PyTorch.
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The Rise of SQL-Based Data Modeling
The resurgence of SQL-based data modeling is a something we should all be interested in. Here's why it's important.
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Pandas 1.0
These are the changes in pandas 1.0.0. See Release notes for a full changelog including other versions of pandas.
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Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
After years of native mobile development, we’ve decided to build all of our new mobile apps using React Native. As I’ll explain, that decision doesn’t come lightly.
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Proposals for Go 1.15
For Go 1.15, we propose three minor language cleanup changes.