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“Safe C++ Subset” Is Vapourware
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,544 posts.
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A SoundCloud client in React and Redux
Build a React + Redux SoundCloud Client. It is a huge tutorial where you build an example real world application. Learn React JS and Redux along the way. Consume the SoundCloud API, login and interact...
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Distributed Systems in Haskell
I recently completed UT Austin's Distributed Computing class, taught by Lorenzo Alvisi. My project partner Pato and I decided to give it a go in Haskell, and ended up using Haskell for all project assignments (Chandy-Lamport, Paxos, and Bayou).
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How bad is the Windows command line really?
Alex Clemmer is a computer programmer. Other programmers love Alex, excitedly describing him as "employed here" and "the boss's son".
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Go stack traces and the errors package
A few months ago I gave a presentation on my philosophy for error handling . In the talk I introduced a small errors package designed to support the ideas presented in the talk.
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Overview of Running an Online Game for 3 Years
It’s been roughly 3 years since DDraceNetwork (DDNet) started in the summer of 2013. Last year I wrote a non-technical History of DDNet . Today in this post we will dive into the technical side of what makes DDNet run.
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People suck at technical interviews (2014)
Most technical interviews test the wrong things: memorized syntax, whiteboard coding, brand-name employers. Instead, hire for learning ability, intellectual honesty, clear communication, and basic decency. "Team fit" is bias in disguise. Homogeneity means you're hiring wrong. Good hiring is hard and slow, but worth it.
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Mistakes Beginners Make When Working with Databases
When you start out as a developer there’s an overwhelming amount of things to grasp. First there’s the language itself, then all the quirks of the specific framework you’re using,and after that (or maybe before) we’ll throw front-end development into the mix, and somewhere along the line you have to decide to store…
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Typosquatting programming language package managers
Edit: It seems that the blog post and the thesis caused quite some interest. Please contact me under the following mail address: admin [|[at]|] incolumitas [[|dot|]] com In this blog post, it is demonstrated how 17000 computers were forced to execute arbitrary code by typosquatting programming language…
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Distributed Systems Testing: The Lost World
After failing to find good papers about distributed systems testing for many months, yesterday I asked a question in Twitter:
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Understanding the Elm type system
Articles about bootstrapping a business in tech and web development by Adam Waselnuk. I’m a first-time founder who is bootstrapping a software business. Follow along as I learn!
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Introduction to Metaprogramming in Nim
Metaprogramming is the writing of computer programs with the ability to treat programs as their data. It means that a program could be designed to read, generate, analyse and/or transform other programs, and even modify itself while running.
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Common shell script mistakes (2008)
Portability and Robustness issues commonly found in shell scripts
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Why is a Rust executable large?
Update (2016-10-07): The official FAQ has an entry for this exact problem now. I'll leave this post as more curiously minded people.
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Learn Docker by building a Microservice
Dave Kerr, partner and Head of Engineering at QuantumBlack Labs, McKinsey & Company. Writing on software engineering and agentic AI.
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You Can't Always Hash Pointers in C
Occasionally I’ve needed to key a hash table with C pointers. I don’t care about the contents of the object itself — especially if it might change — just its pointer identity. For example, suppose I’m using null-terminated strings as keys and I know these strings will always be interned in a common table. These…