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Why I Prefer Functional Programming
Why I'm long on functional programming
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What Happened to XPath?
After being revolutionary in 2007 to unleash CSS selectors that never existed, the specification got abandoned who knows why.
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How to create minimal music with code in any programming language
Making music with low-level C code, from a simple saw wave to playing melodies
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What's in a Linux Executable?
Executables have been fascinating to me ever since I discovered, as a kid, that they were just files. If you renamed a .exe to something else, you could open it in notepad! And if you renamed somet...
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Ruby's Proposed STM
There’s a proposal to add Software Transactional Memory , or STM , to the Ruby programming language. This is part of a wider effort to add better support for concurrency and parallelism in Ruby, and in particular the idea of ractors . A concept has been proposed and implemented by Koichi Sasada.
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On Abandoning the X Server
There's been some recent discussion about whether the X server is abandonware. As the person arguably most responsible for its care and feed...
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A Theory of Software Architecture
Take Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture and map its correspondences with Gary Bernhardt's thin imperative shell around a functional core, and you get an understanding of how to cheaply maintain and scale software! This is what Mr. Brandon Rhodes did. It's not every day that I find such clear insight. I …
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Per Brinch Hansen's books on compilers
Brinch Hansen was one of the pioneers of concurrent programming and operating systems (kernels). In the 1960s, Brinch Hansen worked at the Danish computer company Regnecentralen, first in the compiler group headed by Peter Naur and Jørn Jensen, and, later, as the chief architect of the RC 4000 minicomputer and its…
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How you could have come up with Paxos yourself
In the field of computer science, the Paxos algorithm is notorious for how difficult it is to understand. I had to learn the Paxos algorithm in my distributed systems class. I even have "implemented" it by translating Leslie Lamport's TLA+ to Python. But I didn't understand it until much much later.
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Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation
I love text layout, and have been working with it in one form or other for over 35 years. Yet, knowledge about it is quite arcane. I don’t believe there is a single place where it’s all properly written down. I have some explanation for that: while basic text layout is very important for UI, games, and other contexts…
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Web Scraping with JavaScript
If you’ll try to google “web scraping tutorial” you’ll get a bunch of tech articles on the subject that tells you how to achieve the result using python. The…
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Why I'm Tcl-Ish
Colin Macleod Dundee Barnet Greece Tcl C++ Bloomberg Alcatel Intrasoft Autism
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We chose Java for our high-frequency trading application
In the world of High-Frequency Trading, automated applications process hundreds of millions of market signals every day and send back…
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An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
Every lisp hacker I ever met, myself included, thought that all those brackets in Lisp were off-putting and weird. At first, of course. Soon after we all came to the same epiphany: lisp’s power lies in those brackets ! In this essay, we’ll go on a journey to that epiphany.
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/.bashrc VS –/.profile VS –/.bash_profile
Customize Shell Environment and Appearance
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Admitting That Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (2007)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (2019)
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Better Than JSON?
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Four features that justify a new Unix shell
On a lobste.rs thread about the rationale for the Fennel language, I posted this summary of why Oil exists:
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PHP 8: Before and After
The impact of PHP 8 on my code
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A Programmer’s Intuition for Matrix Multiplication
What does matrix multiplication mean? Here's a few common intuitions: This is useful when first learning about vectors: vectors go in, new ones come out.…
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Attempts to make Python fast
Posted on Hacker News there was an Implementation Plan for making CPython (the official Python implementation) faster. The author claims a 5x speedup is possible for the low cost of $2 million USD.
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Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking
Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
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Localisation is too hard for Gmail
/ləʊk(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The ability to adjust a user-interface to the user's local language or dialect Because I live in the UK, I speak en_GB (English, Great Britain) rather than en_US (English, Simplified United States). Mostly, all dialects of English are mutually intelligible. Sure, the Brits love the letter U and…
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What ORMs Have Taught Me: Just Learn SQL (2014)
I’ve come to the conclusion that, for me, ORMs are more detriment than benefit. In short, they can be used to nicely augment working with SQL in a program, but they should not replace it.