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Why are macros in Haskell terrible, but macros in Racket great? There are certainly many small problems with GHC’s Template Haskell support, but I would say that there is one fundamental design point which Racket got right and Haskell got wrong: Template Haskell does not sufficiently distinguish between compile-time…
Serverless architectures replace a managed server with a collection of third party services and FaaS
Quick, what’s the difference between these two C/C++ definitions of initialized local variables? char buffer[32] = { 0 };char buffer[32] = {}; One difference is that the first is legal in C a…
One of the most annoying problems in Swift is when the compiler gives an 'Expression was too complex to be solved in a reasonable time' error. I look at why this error occurs, how to avoid it and talk about how this should be solved in a future compiler update.
Replace conditionals with lambdas for simpler code that's more powerful
In this tutorial we will learn about the concepts behind the SQL syntax. We will go through the basics of how to use the FROM and WHERE clauses, and move on to more advanced topics like joins, aggregations and subqueries.
I've been thinking about the consequences of the "wrong abstraction." My RailsConf 2014 "all the little things" talk included a section where I asserted: > duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction And in the summary, I went on to advise: >
Sobit Akhmedov is a staff software engineer with 14 years experience building e-commerce, financial and cloud storage solutions for startup and Big Five companies.
Recently there has been a lot of ramblings in the interwebz about Oracle removing its funding for Java EE. A long piece by Ars Technica ...
What I cannot create, I do not understand. – Richard Feynman I do a lot of video chat for work. If it’s not a one on one, it’s pair programming. If it’s not pair programming…
This article has been translated to Japanese by Kana Takahashi on POSTD. The display property is one of the most important CSS properties we use for layout.…
APIs are like bones: sometimes you have to break them to mend them, and it fucking hurts. It’s not a perfect analogy, but it reflects an observation of (superficially) pragmatic behavioural t…
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist...
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
I've been reading a lot of Lisp books lately, some more advanced than others. All of the introductory books I've seen cover the idea of symbolic computation, but most of them breeze past it with just a few pages about "symbols" and "quoting". For many programmers coming from non-Lisp languages these are new, foreign…
