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"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" The saying (also known as Linus' law) doesn't say that the bugs are found fast and neither does it say who finds them. My version of the law would be much more cynical, something like: "eventually, bugs are found", emphasizing the 'eventually' part. (Jim Zemlin apparently…
I was recently contacted from a person I had never met before, asking for some comments on Nim and Rust. Since I have taken a little time to answer, I figured I might as well publish my thoughts.
“The Carpenter” was a JavaScript programmer, well-known for a meticulous attention to detail and love for hand-crafted, exquisitely joined code. The Carpenter normally worked through personal referrals, but from time to time a recruiter would slip through his screen. One such recruiter was Bob Plissken. Bob was…
Monica Dinculescu's blog
Hair-pulling. Helpless rage. Clusterfucks. They leave much to be desired, yet sometimes are the right tool for the job. Let’s tame them!
Some thoughts on why git’s complex user interface works so well in practice.
[This essay in Spanish] [This essay in French] [This essay in Chinese] In an old joke, two noblemen vie to name the bigger number. The first, after ruminating for hours, triumphantly announces "Eighty-three!" The second, mightily impressed, replies "You win." A biggest number contest is clearly pointless when the…
Let's revisit some programming myths and see how harmful they have been to our industry.
Since seeing the city generation from the shelved Introversion Software game “Subversion” in action , I’ve wanted to to try writing a basic procedural city generator myself. The developers followed a method described in Parish and Müller’s paper: Procedural Modelling of Cities (2001) . The paper is well-written and…
To quote the last part of this blog post, "I think it's [asyncio] really well done, it's fun to use, and I still am interested in having more of a SQLAlchemy story for it, because I'm sure folks will still want this no matter what anyone says.". To that end, SQLAlchemy 1.4 now includes complete support for asyncio …
OCaml first hit my radar in November 2013. I had just learnt SML, a similar but older language, in the excellent Programming Languages Coursera course. Dan Grossman is one of the best lecturers I&#…
I used to have trouble keeping track of my files. I often couldn’t remember whether I saved a file on my desktop, laptop, or phone, or if it was floating around in the cloud somewhere. Plus, with certain information, like passwords and bitcoin keys, I didn’t feel comfortable just sending that in an email to myself in…
Regular expressions are extremely powerful. This is something I read at least once or twice every day while reading articles and blogs on the Web.
Peter Bourgon has a web site, and this is that web site.
Yet another big problem of the Internet era tackled by Mathematics. Looping GIFs are a very popular form of art on the Web, with two dedicated forums …
The website of Justin Long. Crockpotveggies is a collection of notes about Justin's own projects.
The last few weeks were full of lots of great articles about an old topic: should things on the internet be dependent on JavaScript and…
Uses some simple trigonometry to calculate the movement of circles bouncing off lines.
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There’s a trend in Silicon Valley startups to create a software layer in industries that were traditionally pure human services. Uber and Lyft have created software layers in the taxi industry, 99designs Tasks in the visual design industry, Homejoy in the cleaning industry, and so on. These new software services…
