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In my previous post I outlined several cases that we would like to improve with Rust’s current borrow checker. This post discusses one possible scheme for solving those. The heart of the post is two key ideas:
This is #3 in a very long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture.Previous post (#2): Stack Overflow: The Hardware - 2016 EditionWe’ve talked abou...
The mainstream real-time graphics APIs, OpenGL and Direct3D, make miserable standard bearers for the age of hardware heterogeneity. Their approach to heterogeneous programming leads to stringly typed interfaces, a huge volume of boilerplate, and impoverished GPU-specific programming languages.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been devoting my free time to fleshing out the theory behind non-lexical lifetimes (NLL). I think I’ve arrived at a pretty good point and I plan to write various posts talking about it. Before getting into the details, though, I wanted to start out with a post that lays out roughly how…
Generally good things to do when writing Go code, in 2016 and beyond.
Answer to the famous question ‘Do good programmers use Google?’
C++ has changed a lot in recent years. The last two revisions, C++11 and C++14, introduce so many new features that, in the words of Bjarne Stroustrup, “It feels like a new …
Integer overflow detection/handling in Rust is sometimes misunderstood.
Author: HostileFork, Title: Rebol vs. Lisp Macros, Date: 19-Apr-2016, Length: 2220 words
Hi everyone! Here's part five of my favorite programming, computer and science books. If you're just joining, please see part one, part two, part three and part four. I've been collecting and researching science, math, physics, programming books since 2001 or 2002, so it's been close to 15 years of book research…
I will attempt to convince you, in two lines of code, that Elixir is more interesting than any programming language you’ve ever used.
git-remote-dropbox is now on PyPI!
This is one of those “N technical things every programmer must read” lists, except that “programmer” is way too broad a term and the styles of writing people find helpful for them are too different for any such list to contain a non-zero number of items (if you want the entire list to be helpful to everyone). So…
Let's dissect a PHP spam script and find out how spammers send spam messages and how they have tried to obfuscate the actual code they use.
With the advent of anonymous online money transactions (read Bitcoin ) ransomware has become a profitable business in the cybercrime indu...
In this post I’d like to test limits of python aiohttp and check its performance in terms of requests per minute. Everyone knows that asynchronous code perf...
QBE is a compiler backend that aims to provide 70% of the performance of industrial optimizing compilers in 10% of the code. QBE fosters language innovation by offering a compact user-friendly and performant backend. The size limit constrains QBE to focus on the essential and prevents embarking on a never-ending path…
A case study of rewriting software system from scratch and why it failed.
Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Plain English - This is a no-bullshit zone
Here are some tips and tricks that I learned the hard way when developing and deploying web applications written for node.js using Docker.
Table of Contents: I’ve been using git full time for the past 4 years, and I wanted to share the most practical tips that I’ve learned along the way. Hopefully, it will be useful to somebody out there.
This is the first article in a series dedicated to multiple dispatch - an advanced abstraction technique available to programmers out-of-the-box in some languages, and implementable in others. This first post in the series presents the technique and explains the problem it intends to solve. It uses C++ as the…
