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Interactively Programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript
I have been doing interactive programming in ClojureScript recently. After having spent some time with it, I can easily say that when I return to projects that don’t have an interactive workflow I feel like I am in the stone ages.
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Let's Write Some x86-64
…"‘Our speech interposes itself between apprehension and truth like a dusty pane or warped mirror. The tongue of Eden was like a flawless glass; a light of total understanding streamed through it. Thus Babel was a second Fall.’ And Isaac the Blind, an early Kabbalist, said that, to quote Gershom Scholem’s translation…
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Burying the URL
Chrome considers hiding the location field.
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Co-routines as an alternative to state machines (2009)
When you have to traverse some sort of a nested data structure (say, a binary tree), one approach is to create a stack that remembers where in the tree you are. Another, much more elegant approach, is to write the function recursively. A recursive function employs the machine stack used to implicitly implement…
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Glacier redux
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, April 30, 2014 | Architecture , Cloud computing & storage , Object storage | 14 comments
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You Don't Want XTS
XTS is the de-facto standard disk encryption mode, which makes it look like a good general-purpose one. It isn't. What disk encryption actually promises, and why XTS's guarantees don't travel.
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Bitcoin Price Pressure
The price of bitcoin keeps trending down. [1] This causes a lot of people to declare the end of bitcoin. It’s important to understand that the default price pressure of the bitcoin ecosystem is...
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JavaScript Promises in Wicked Detail
GOPAY303 adalah platform game digital yang menyediakan strategi pola RTP paling ajaib saat ini. Menyajikan analisis akurat, navigasi kencang, dan aksesibilitas ramah mobile 24 jam.
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The origin of “log in” (2011)
We do it dozens of times a day, every day, but why do we call it logging in? “Log in” is one of those phrases that sounds weirder the more you say it. It’s ubiquitous in online li…
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Programming Sucks
E very friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: “Bro, 1 [1] you don’t work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver.”
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Android betrays tethering data
Software engineer, Free, Open Source Software Consultant, Innovator, Fedora & Debian Developer
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Become a better programmer with programming challenges
When I went to university me and some friends spent time on practising algorithm implementations for the national programming contests that ...
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Rust for C++ programmers – part 4: unique pointers
Rust is a systems language and therefore must give you raw access to memory. It does this (as in C++) via pointers. Pointers are one area w...
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Firefox and Flux: A New, Beautiful Browser is Coming
It’s not an interface adjustment or tweak. It’s not a bug fix. It’s a complete re-envisioning of Firefox’s user experience, and it’s been brewing for the past five years.
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Everything that is wrong with American capitalism, in one headline
Here it is, in the LA Times: " Comcast, Charter reach $20-billion deal, would swap customers in L.A. " Cable companies Comcast Corp. ...
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Web SQL Database: In Memoriam
All signs seem to indicate that Apple will finally ship IndexedDB in Safari 7.1 sometime this year. This means that Safari, the last holdout against IndexedDB,…
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