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Tabasco Sort: a super-optimal merge sort
Paul Khuong's personal blog. Some Lisp, some optimisation, mathematical or computer.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 14,544 posts.
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Pascal's Apology, or why computer science is complicated
Blaise Pascal once famously ended a letter with an apology : I'm sorry that this was such a long letter, but I didn't have time to write you a short one. Computer science has pretty much the same problem. It's a young field, and young fields are, by their nature, messy. As we race to generate new knowledge, we also…
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Top Surprises When Starting Out as a Software Developer
Even though more than 20 years have passed, I still remember wondering what it would be like to finish university and start working. Up until that point, I had pretty much spent my whole life in sc…
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Light Table reaches 0.1.0
The Light Table Playground is getting a huge update today that we’re really excited to show you. New to Light Table? It’s a new kind of reactive IDE, check out the original post to learn more.
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Software Effort Estimation Considered Harmful
Delta Air Lines tells me it will take two hours and twenty-five minutes to fly from New York City to Atlanta, GA. American says two thirty. United? Two thirty-four. Yet, the captain just told me it was “one-hour forty-five” minutes “wheels-up to wheels-down”. What gives?
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The first Django site to run on Python 3
This page was generated by Django 1.5.dev20120815104632 and Python 3.2.3 (default, Aug 15 2012, 13:02:32) [GCC 4.4.5] on Sept. 1, 2012, 3:42 p.m. (Paris time).
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Erlang programmer’s view on Curiosity Rover software
On Curiosity and its software I cannot help but speculate on how the software on the Curiosity rover has been constructed. We know that m...
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What “Worse is Better vs The Right Thing” is really about
I thought about this one for a couple of years, then wrote it up, and left it untouched for another couple of years.
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Steve Yegge and Grok
Bryan Summersett's home page.
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Bash Initialisation Files
It's incomplete, but probably a reasonable place to start. If you think there's something that desperately need to be fixed then send me email and I'll look at it.
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Write any javascript code with just these characters: ()[]{}+
Hi! I've taken this blog offline, but you can still read this post in the archive.org version .
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What I Hate About Git
Git is the source code version control system that is rapidly becoming the standard for open source projects. It has a powerful distributed model which allows advanced users to do tricky things wit…
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Throne of JS: Eight JavaScript MV* Libraries Compared
Steve Sanderson's Blog
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Live Streaming in Rails 4.0
TL;DR Rails 4.0 will allow you to stream arbitrary data at arbitrary intervals with Live Streaming. HAPPY MONDAY EVERYONE! Besides enabling multi-threading by default, one of the things I really wanted for Rails 4.0 is the ability to stream data to the client. I want the ability to treat the response object as an I/O…
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