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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,330 posts.
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Elm 0.19 Broke Us
Elm 0.19 was released yesterday. There were a significant number of breaking changes at every level:...
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How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (1999)
As a rule, "sophisticated" progrmming is pretty boring - optimizing the unnecessary to speed up the uninteresting. Here, however, is an incredibly sophisticated package intended for fun and games. The more you know about software, the more astounded you will become as you read this.
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The Future of Notebooks: Lessons from JupyterCon
At JupyterCon, I learned three things: reactive notebooks are the future, Jupyter is the new Bash, and data science is a gateway drug.
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The Approval Economy
Why every purchase is a performance “I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am.” — Thomas Cooley About a month ago, I published what has become my mo…
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Dear Ad Networks
In 1 week, I plan to benchmark all your advertisment delivery systems from IP address block 184.20/16.
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24-core CPU and I can’t type an email – part two
In my last post I promised to give more details about some rabbit holes that I went down during the investigation, including page tables, locks, WMI, and a vmmap bug. Those details are here, along …
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Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed
UPDATE: Intel has resolved their microcode licensing issue which I complained about in this blog post. The new license text is here .
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Monitoring and Observability in the .NET Runtime
.NET is a managed runtime, which means that it provides high-level features that ‘manage’ your program for you, from Introduction to the Common Language Runtime (CLR) (written in 2007):
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Advice for Haskell beginners (2017)
How to start off on the right foot
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Mod and remainder are not the same
A remainder and a modulus look so very similar, but they are not the same thing and worse, are treated differently by different programming languages. Do you know how your language handles mod?
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A study of musical scales (2017)
PREFACE. This essay was written in 2009. Since then, a few errata have been corrected and I embedded the youtube videos, but there have been no substantial additions. I think it still holds up fairly well, but if I were to rewrite it today, I would change some things. My main regret is using the criteria of maximum…
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What they don’t tell you about event sourcing
Event sourcing and CQRS gained a lot of popularity recently. The advantages are obvious and they share a very peculiar symbiosis with the…
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Companies shouldn't give candidates homework assignments
There’s a trend among start-ups (and some larger companies) that worries me: giving candidates “homework” assignments. Homework assignments lead to candidate abuse. Knock it off (or at least be reasonable). I’ve seen many friends and clients go through this. As a pre-screening round before an onsite
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My Experience and Advice for Using GPUs in Deep Learning: Which GPU to get
Here, I provide an in-depth analysis of GPUs for deep learning/machine learning and explain what is the best GPU for your use-case and budget.
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Panic Attacks
I read the ESPN piece on Kevin Love and other NBA players’ mental health issues this morning. My son had sent it to me yesterday. The bit about his panic attack during an Atlanta Hawks game, initially disclosed in this piece Kevin wrote on The Players Tribune, was particularly hard to read. Kevin Love started […]
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