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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,544 posts.
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The Fast Fourier Transform
It’s often said that the Age of Information began on August 17, 1964 with the publication of Cooley and Tukey’s paper, “An Algorithm for the Machine Calculation of Complex Fourier…
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The Mathematical Hacker
The programming profession is blessed with a number of gifted essayists. Today I will pick on three of my favorites — Eric Raymond, Paul Graham, and Steve Yegge — because they all seem to disagree about why (and whether) mathematics is relevant to the practicing programmer. Their attitudes might be summarized as:
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Coroutine Event Loops in Javascript
Web performance monitoring is the process of tracking and analyzing the speed, uptime, and overall performance of a website to ensure an optimal user experience.
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Component · Decoupling Patterns
Allow a single entity to span multiple domains without coupling the domains to each other.
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What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap
I didn’t think I’d learn anything building Bootstrap. Actually, I was pretty confident I wouldn’t learn anything. As a technical challenge, Bootstrap just isn’t very interesting. It’s …
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I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit
Hartley writes about full stack software engineering and AI-driven software development.
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Git Tips And Workflows
Personal homepage and blog of Nicola Paolucci aka @durdn
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Books of a Highly Effective Programmer (2009)
Like many programmers, I’m always on the lookout for the perfect programming book. Over the years I have tried to enumerate a few key examples , however after reading them all I am still left wanting. However, I recently came across a couple interesting blog posts [^motivation] that motivated me that the only way to…
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Android Performance Case Study
Measure frame time, allocations, overdraw, and repeated work before changing code; the useful optimization is the one a trace can prove.
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Why C++ Is Not "Back"
There are plenty of excellent developers I know today that still use C++ and teach others how to use it and there is nothing at all wrong with that. So what is the problem then? Why is C++ not "back"?
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Bash One-Liners Explained, Part V: Navigating around
This is the fifth part of the Bash One-Liners Explained article series. In this part I'll teach you how to quickly navigate around the command line in bash using emacs-style keyboard shortcuts. That's right, emacs-style keyboard shortcuts. It might surprise you but by default bash uses emacs-style keyboard shortcuts...
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Life of an instruction in LLVM
LLVM is a complex piece of software. There are several paths one may take on the quest of understanding how it works, none of which is simple. I recently had to dig in some areas of LLVM I was not previously familiar with, and this article is one of the outcomes of this quest.
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Extremist Programming
Lazy evaluation is awesome. What if we made a PL where every data type was lazy?
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Refining Ruby
What does the following code do? If you answered
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Java's Atomic and volatile, under the hood on x86
It’s well known that volatile in Java doesn’t mean the same thing as atomic . As Jeremy Manson says :
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Regexp-based RFC822 email address validation
Mail::RFC822::Address is a Perl module to validate email addresses according to the RFC 822 grammar. It provides the same functionality as RFC::RFC822::Address, but uses Perl regular expressions rather that the Parse::RecDescent parser. This means that the module is much faster to load as it does not need to compile…