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Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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On Scala
This is one of a series of posts on languages, you can read more about that here . Scala's blending of programming paradigms in a single language is impressive. It's fun to write code in and is a good language for leaning into the functional plus static typing paradigm. As much as I like
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Functional JavaScript: Closure
After a seemingly endless journey , the publication of Functional JavaScript is complete and books have found their way into peoples’ homes. Below is a list of useful links related to the book:
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Automating Card Games Using OpenCV and Python
A friend introduced me to the game 24 , a simple game you can play with a deck of playing cards. Over the course of playing the game, I realized that either my friend was really good at this game, or that I wasn't!
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New Werkzeug and Flask Releases
Update on the Flask 0.10 and Werkzeug 0.9 releases.
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Data Parallelism in Rust
Rust currently has very strong support for concurrency in the form of actors which exchange messages and do not share memory. However, there are many tasks for which actors are not a good fit. The unbounded lifetime of actors means that they cannot safely access stack-allocated memory from another task, even if it is…
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Logic Programming is Underrated
Mark Engelberg wrote a very interesting post titled Logic Programming is Overrated . I take issue with a quite a few points made in that post and I would like to address a couple of them here.
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Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go
I have always wanted to write an emulator. I made a half-hearted attempt in college but it never made it to a demo-able state. I also didn't want to write Yet Another Emulator. It should at least bring something new to the table. When I discovered LLVM , I felt like I finally had worthwhile idea for a project.
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Real-Time Garbage Collection Is Real
Real-Time Garbage Collection (RTGC) tests the limits of what we typically think is possible in production software. You might hear “Real-Time” and “Garbage Collection” together and think “If you truly need real-time guarantees, why would you use a garbage collected language?” or “How is real-time Garbage Collection…
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Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
An API is a user interface for a developer. Learn the best practices to make an API that is easy to adopt and pleasant to use.
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Build your own Google TV using Raspberry Pi, Node.js and Socket.io
If you’re connecting to your rPi via SSH, you’d have to update your DISPLAY environment variables by issuing
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How Go uses Go to build itself
This post is based on a talk I gave to the Sydney Go users group in mid April 2013 describing the Go build process.
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Tetris Printer Algorithm
By rotating, positioning and dropping a predetermined sequence of pieces, the Tetris Printer Algorithm exploits the mechanics of Tetris to generate arbitrary bitmap images.
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What is a Full Stack developer? (2012)
Is it reasonable to expect mere mortals to have mastery over every facet of the development stack? Probably not, but Facebook can ask for it. I was told at OSCON by a Facebook employee that they only hire 'Full Stack' developers. Well, what does that mean? To me, a Full Stack Developer is someone with
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Emacs is Dead (2010)
He is the author of the famous auto-complete.el and you may be helped a lot by his implementation of native profiler merged in the latest Emacs release (24.3).
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Learn C
I started learning Objective-C about three years ago while I was studying music in Nashville, TN. Some time during high school, I had poked around in C++, but I didn’t understand it. By college, I …
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On Go
This is one of a series of posts on languages, you can read more about that here . A grab bag of observations on the Go programming language, positive and negative. It bucks some orthodoxy on what a good effective language is supposed to look like. It makes sensible engineering decisions and is sq
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CUDA grep
CUDA grep : Manish and Brandon's 15418 final project
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