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Why Neovim is Better than Vim
I know Vim better than most. Vim was my first real text editor.[1] I used it for years. I helped write the Floobits plugin for Vim. I’ve delved into Vim’s source code to figure out its workings. I e…
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A Complete Guide to Rails Caching
Caching in a Rails app is a little bit like that one friend you sometimes have around for dinner, but should really have around more often.
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Swift Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures
In this port to Swift of the great of Haskell's "Functors, Applicatives, And Monads In Pictures" we are going to look at these functional programming concepts aided by some very helpful pictures.
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A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python
A machine learning craftsmanship blog.
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Singleton Pattern in Go
The Go Language growth has been phenomenal in the last few years, and is attracting language converts from all walks of life. There has been a lot articles recently about companies switching from Ruby, and experiencing the new world of Go and it’s parallel and concurrent approach to problems.
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You're in a space of twisty little mazes, all alike
I have a hidden reason for posing this problem, but that's the subject of a future blog post. But for now, let me clarify by saying that I'm not just interested in counting the number of such mazes, I actually want to enumerate them — that is, I need to know what each maze looks like.
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Live-Coding Blender with Hy
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Handling 1M Requests per Minute with Go
Here at Malwarebytes we are experiencing phenomenal growth, and since I have joined the company over 1 year ago in the Silicon Valley, one my main responsibilities has been to architect and develop several systems to power a fast-growing security company and all the needed infrastructure to support a product that is…
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Graphics Analysis of an NES Game's Select Menu
In Star Versus’s two player mode, the first thing players see is a menu to select their ships, handicaps, and arenas. Although straight forward in concept, this menu actually maxes out the NES’s graphics in multiple ways. Specifically, it uses each available palette, requires all 64 sprites, and places 8 sprites onto…
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Microservice Trade-Offs
The microservices architecture can be useful, but to know if it's suitable in your context you need to understand its costs and benefits.
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The Universal Data Structure
Whether you write compilers, web services or Django admin panels, you probably use hash maps more than all other data structures combined. In fact, you may not remember the last time you used anything else. This is not a coincidence: any conceivable data structure can be implemented with a hash map; therefore, there…
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Safari is the new IE
Update: This post represents my views before I joined the Microsoft Edge team, and before I got involved with browsers or web standards in general. I leave it…
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DataLake
A Data Lake is a store that hold raw data as a source for data scientists to explore ways to gain information. It should not be accessed by end-users or used for system integration.
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The Unix Philosophy
The ‘Unix philosophy’ originated with Ken Thompson's early meditations on how to design a small but capable operating system with a clean service interface. It grew as the Unix culture learned things about how to get maximum leverage out of Thompson's design. It absorbed lessons from many sources along the way.