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Zig Programming Language 0.1.1: First beta release
Zig can be used to integrate closely with existing C code, or independently, without libc.
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Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017
I'm awarded the Swedish Polhem Prize 2017. (Link to a Swedish-speaking site.) The Polhem Prize (Polhemspriset in Swedish), is awarded "for a high-level technological innovation or an ingenious solution to a technical problem." The Swedish innovation must be available and shown competitive on the open market. This…
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Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional programming principles?
The “park bench” panel at the Haskell eXchange last week talked about a lot of things, but some of them can be summarised by the question ...
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Efficient pagination of a SQL table with 100M records
Compilation of my favorite SQL queries after a decade of dealing with relational databases. Today we talk about scanning a table with 100 million records.
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Why physicists still use Fortran (2015)
“I don’t know what the programming language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN.” – Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, circa 1982 Fortran is rarely used today in industry — one ranking ranks it behind 29 other languages. However, Fortran is still a dominant language for the large scale…
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My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies
Sapiens and Collective Fictions Recently I read Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari. The basic thesis of the book is that humans require ‘collective fictions’ so that …
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How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human
Lately, I’ve been reading articles about best practices for code reviews. I notice that these articles focus on finding bugs to the exclusion of almost every…
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Cognitive Biases in Programming
As developers, we’re familiar with the various problems that interfere with our productivity. But often we overlook the broad picture. Some…
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The software engineering notebook
Fellow software engineers/hackers/devs/code gardeners, do you keep a notebook (digital or plain dead-tree version) to record things you learn?
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Some Insights from a Julia Developer
In this post I would like to reflect a bit on the Julia programming language. These are my personal views and I have had more than a year developing a lot of packages for the Julia programming language. After roaming around many different languages including R, MATLAB, C, and Python; Julia is finally a language I am…
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How JavaScript works: Event loop and the rise of Async programming
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Questions to ask in interviews
As my RC batch draws to a close, I’m interviewing once again. In the vein of Julia Evans’ great blog post, “Questions I’m asking in interviews” , here’s a set of questions to ask your recruiter, interviewers, and/or prospective manager.
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Analysing C# code on GitHub with BigQuery
Just over a year ago Google made all the open source code on GitHub available for querying within BigQuery and as if that wasn’t enough you can run a terabyte of queries each month for free!
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Dear Postgres
Dear Postgres, I’ve always felt an affinity for you in my 9 years of working with you. I know others have known you longer, but that doesn’t mean they love you more. Years ago when others complained about your rigidness or that you weren’t as accommodating as others I found solace in your steadfast values: Don’t lose…
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Atom's new concurrency-friendly buffer implementation
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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CockroachDB 1.1 Released: Production Made Easy
CockroachDB 1.1 includes support for faster migrations from legacy databases, simplified cluster management, and improved performance.
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Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft
Post by Dr. Matt Wood Today, AWS and Microsoft announced Gluon, a new open source deep learning interface which allows developers to more easily and quickly build machine learning models, without compromising performance. Gluon provides a clear, concise API for defining machine learning models using a collection of…
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Exploding Git Repositories
The git bomb. Crafting compact repos that can't be cloned.
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Reverse Engineering an Eclipse Plugin
Introduction Firstly I want to note I’m not a security researcher, ethical hacker or at all competent at reverse engineering. I’m currently working as a Java developer but I’ve al…
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Cthulhu: Organizing Go Code in a Scalable Repo
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
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My essential django package list
In this article I’d like to present a list of django packages (add-ons) that I use in most of my projects. I am using django for more than 5 years as my day to day work tool to develop applications for the public sector organization I work for. So please keep in mind that these packages are targeted to the…
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Why Constant-Time Crypto?
In 1996, Paul Kocher published a novel attack on RSA, specifically on RSA implementations , that extracted information on the private key by simply measuring the time taken by the private key operation on various inputs. It took a few years for people to accept the idea that such attacks were practical and could be…