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Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents . Your readers can interactively explore possibilities, play with parameters, and see the document update immediately. Tangle is super-simple and easy to learn.
Reasoning about code means being able to follow the execution path (“running the program in your head”) while knowing what the goal of the code is.
Fair Coins are the currency of Userland. A Fair Coin flips fifty-fifty with mathematical exactness. In the real world most coins are pretty fair, but you never know whether there might be a small bias to one side or another. This presents Lauren Ipsum , a girl who's lost in Userland, with a problem. No one wants her…
The tokens #t and #f are the True and False literals, respectively. The single quote mark serves to quote the following expression. The syntax ' exp is completely equivalent to (quote exp ) . The backquote character ` is called quasiquote in Scheme; it is similar to ' except that within a quasiquoted expression, the…
Why I haven't been writing much Haskell code lately.
Chris Hulbert, Splinter Software, is a contracting iOS developer based in Australia.
Last weekend, I attended GitHub's PyCodeConf in Miami Florida and had the opportunity to give a talk on array-oriented computing and Python....
I'm no graphics expert, but appreciate why square roots are useful. The Pythagorean theorem computes distance between points, and dividing by distance helps…
A programmer’s greatest enemy is getting stuck . A crucial skill in programming—and one that many of my beginning game programming students lack—is the ability to recognize when they’re stuck, to get out of being stuck, and to avoid getting stuck in the first place.
Learn how Backbone.js applications are organized using modules, namespaces, reusable Views, and scalable frontend architecture patterns.
(Screenshot by someone on Twitter two weeks ago. I can’t find the tweet now — sorry.)
This article appeared in Java Report, 5(7), July 2000 and C++ Report, 12(7), July/August 2000 .
Writing operating systems in a compiled machine-independent programming language.
"In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you do not know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state."
The PyPy project was long criticised for being insufficiently transparent about the direction of its development. This changed drastically w...
sed book This is the world's best introduction to sed - the superman of UNIX stream editing. Originally I wrote this introduction for my second e-book, however later I decided to make it a part of the free e-book preview and republish it here as this article. Introduction to sed Mastering sed can be reduced to...
I've been trying to understand this whole Node.js thing that's been going on for the past few days. It's taught me a lot about how the Node....
tl;dr If you want to ship high quality code, you should invest in more than one of formal code review, design inspection, testing, and quality assurance. Testing catches fewer bugs per hour than human inspection of code, but it might be catching different types of bugs.
Lately, there has been a lot of experimentation with very short programs that synthesize something that sounds like music. I now want to sha...
