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Critical Django security updates released (0day, exploit in the wild)
Posted by James Bennett on Oct. 9, 2009
GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal
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PyPy Status Blog: First results of the JIT
Hi all, Just a quick note to tell you that we are progressing on the JIT front. Here are the running times of the richards benchmark on ...
The Duct Tape Programmer (Response from Uncle Bob Martin)
In Joel Spolsky’s recent blog he talks about “Duct Tape Programmers”. These “pretty boys” don’t use complex tools like C++, Templates, COM , Multiple Inheritance, etc. They don’t waste their time going to “goddamn Design Patterns meetups”. They don’t do all the fancy things that speakers at conferences talk about…
How we hash our Javascript for better caching and less breakage on updates
One of the problems we use to see frequently on Green Felt happened when we’d update a Javascript API: We’d add some parameters to some library function and then update some other files so that they called the function with the new parameters. But when we’d push the changes to the site we’d end up with few users that…
Lisp is sin
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Scheme Is Love
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Rifle-Oriented Programming with Clojure
Any comparison of hot JVM languages is likely to note that “Clojure is not object-oriented.” This is true, but it may lead you to the wrong concl...
Google App Inventor uses Scheme under the hood
Posted by Bill Magnuson, Hal Abelson, and Mark FriedmanWe recently announced our App Inventor for Android project on the Google Research Blog. Tha...
How to Make Phone Calls from the Command Line
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