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A bad citizen in Javaland (2006)
You are born with no body parts. One by one, your organs are pushed into you. Should anyone attempt to interact with you before your organs have finished arriving you will die. Luckily this doesn&#…
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Self hosted C – breakdown
I did it. It wasn't easy, but I did it. My C Compiler can compile itself. Even though it still has holes in functionality and obvious bug...
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Python List Comprehensions Explained Visually
Sometimes a programming design pattern becomes common enough to warrant its own special syntax. Python’s list comprehensions are a prime example...
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Perl 6 is fun
This post got a lot of discussion on Hacker News that you might find interesting. I’ve been writing a fair bit of Perl 6 lately, and my main takeaway so far is that Perl 6 is fun. Pretty much everything I love in Perl 5 is still part of Perl 6, but almost everything I hate is gone too. $Love - $Hate = $Fun; Here are…
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A whirlwind tour of Go’s runtime environment variables
The Go runtime, in addition to providing the usual services of garbage collection, goroutine scheduling, timers, network polling and so forth, contains facilities to enable extra debugging output and even alter the behaviour of the runtime itself.
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Python's Hidden Regular Expression Gems
Some hidden features of the Python re module and the support machinery that drives it.
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Oh, Go Ahead, Overthink FizzBuzz (2008)
I gave the best programming interview answer I may have ever given last Friday. The interviewer hauled out FizzBuzz and asked me to solve it. It took me a minute to stop laughing. FizzBuzz is a brain-dead simple programming problem, used pretty much to tell if a developer has a pulse at all. It is…
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Python C API, PyPy and the road into the future
tl;dr; We are willing to commercially support CPython C API in PyPy, so if you want pypy to support library X, get in touch with me at fij...
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We need less powerful languages
We need languages and systems that are less powerful, not more powerful, and easy ways to create and use such languages.
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What will be the legacy of Go?
In October this year I had the privilege of speaking at the GothamGo conference in New York City. As I talk quite softly, and there were a few problems with the recording, I decided to write up my slide notes and present them here.
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Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths
I started using Scala 5 years ago instead of Java after starting (but never quite finishing) to read the first edition of Programming in Scala. First only present in tests, my first attempts at Scala code would quite soon invade small utility classes and before I knew it take over all of my projects. There are many…
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Counting Things in Python: A History
Sometimes the Pythonic way to solve a problem changes over time. As Python has evolved, so has the Pythonic way to count list items. Let’s look at...
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The category design pattern
A programming design pattern inspired by category theory
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Assembly Language: Still Relevant Today
First, no, I don't do every thing in assembly. I use other languages too. Assembly language does have its place though. Second, a few of my points may not apply to highly complex processors; for example, self-modifying code may not work on a processor with an instruction cache .
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Java 8’s new Optional type doesn't solve anything
When Java 8 was released, I was excited to see the new Optional type. The null reference is a common source of errors in most languages…
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Good Practices for Writing Rust Libraries
For a bit more than a year now, I've been interested in Rust , a programming language by Mozilla research that “runs blazingly fast, prevents nearly all segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.” It is as low-level as C or C++, has a nice type system (with generics and traits), a helpful compiler, and a…
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The Dynamic Def – abusing Ruby's def statement
Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more!
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Running Swift code on Android
Apple's Swift has been available for over a year now, and Apple has promised it will be made available under an Open-Source license by the end of 2015.
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Forgotten Language: Jorf could have been Python or Ruby (2005)
A long time ago, there was no Internet. Ok, there was an internet, but I lived outside of it. It was 1992 or 1993, and I only saw my first webpage and send my first email in 1995. And I was perhaps…
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The Little Printf
This text is a transcript of a presentation I have given on October 9, 2015, at the CityCode conference in Chicago. This content is also available in video , and as a PDF Document better suited for printing.
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Writing Friendlier Clojure
I love the Clojure language, but I don’t think there’s any use pretending that the combination of expressiveness, power, and repl-driven development can result in some staggeringly dense code. Everyone that writes Clojure is guilty of this at one time or another; you start with the core of your function, evaluate it…