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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,544 posts.
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The problem with Angular
In the last six months or so I talked to several prospective clients that had a problem finding front-end consultants in order to help their dev teams get a grip on their Angular projects.
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Frameworks are for hacks, libraries for seeds
I find that I operate in one of two modes when I’m writing software. I’m either approaching a project as a quick hack or as developing software . As much as anything else, this affects how I approach the project and what kinds of results that I get.
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A Quick Comparison of Nim vs. Rust
Arthur’s thoughts on coding, software engineering, and other interesting things.
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Microsoft BASIC for 6502 – Original Source Code (1978)
This is the original 1978 source code of Microsoft BASIC for 6502 with all original comments, documentation and easter eggs: M6502.MAC (1978-07-27, 6955 lines, 161,685 bytes) This is currently the oldest publicly available piece of source written by Bill Gates.
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Practicing Programming (2005)
Practicing Programming Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants™ Back in October I wrote an essay in which I compared programming to other professions. In it, I made the unsubstantiated claim that programming is unusual, in that most programmers don't practice their craft -- at least, not in any disciplined
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The God Login
I graduated with a Computer Science minor from the University of Virginia in 1992. The reason it’s a minor and not a major is because to major in CS at UVa you had to go through the Engineering School, and I was absolutely not cut out for that kind
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JavaScript Modularity Shaming
Pete Hunt of React fame recently got into an online discussion about the pros and cons of Webpack vs. Browserify . In the discussion he inadvertently coins a hilarious term for a form of rhetoric in some circles of the JavaScript community - “Modularity Shaming”. React itself has been on the receiving end of…
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Sed – An Introduction and Tutorial
The Grymoire - Tutorial on the SED stream editor.
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Brainfuck Optimization Strategies
In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence the selection amongst them for the purposes of a Calculating Engine. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time…
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JavaScript in 2015
In the last few days of 2014, I resurrected my long-neglected GIF-beatmatching project DJGif to throw a New Year’s party on my rooftop:
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The truth about C and Unix history
My homepage for projects, jokes and bunnies.
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What most young programmers need to learn
In the past 7.5 years I have supervised over a dozen programming interns at Ronimo and have seen hundreds of portfolios of students and gra...
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OS Technologies to Watch
If you just want to get in touch, you can talk to me in an emailwardly fashion here .
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Introduction to Category Theory
The aim of this course is to teach the basics of category theory, in a way that is accessible and relevant to computer scientists. The emphasis is on gaining a good understanding the basic definitions, examples, and techniques, so that students are equipped for further study on their own of more advanced topics if…
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Make Your Own Programming Language
This is part 1 in a series of blog posts that follow my work in creating a programming language.
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Considering performance in the small is not “premature optimization”
DISCLAIMER : The following are my own personal opinions and are not shared, sanctioned or endorsed by anybody in particular, especially my employer. Any criticisms expressed herein are of a general nature and are neither inspired by nor directed at any person, entity, or product in particular. Links to other online…
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Clojure 2014 Year in Review
My unscientific, incomplete, thoroughly biased view of interesting things that happened with Clojure in 2014.
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The Software Developer's Sketchbook
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Rise of the Scientific Programmer
A blog on programming C#, REST, WCF, ASP.NET Web API and software architecture
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Microcontrollers Not Allowed – Trolling a college instructor
If you attempt this project, your classmates will think you're a nerd. You'll likely wind up getting your head flushed and/or balls greased.
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Hidden Costs That Engineers Ignore
“It’ll only take me a few hours to implement the feature,” we sometimes say. But after finishing, we find that every few weeks, we’re either fixing a bug with the feature, explaining it to another eng
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Why Deleting Sensitive Information from GitHub Doesn't Save You
Security and Programming Blog
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