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Pyston v2: Faster Python
We’re very excited to release Pyston v2, a faster and highly compatible implementation of the Python programming language. Version 2 is 20% faster than stock Python 3.8 on our macrobenchmarks…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,508 posts.
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Ruby's Proposed STM
There’s a proposal to add Software Transactional Memory , or STM , to the Ruby programming language. This is part of a wider effort to add better support for concurrency and parallelism in Ruby, and in particular the idea of ractors . A concept has been proposed and implemented by Koichi Sasada.
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On Abandoning the X Server
There's been some recent discussion about whether the X server is abandonware. As the person arguably most responsible for its care and feed...
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A Theory of Software Architecture
Take Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture and map its correspondences with Gary Bernhardt's thin imperative shell around a functional core, and you get an understanding of how to cheaply maintain and scale software! This is what Mr. Brandon Rhodes did. It's not every day that I find such clear insight. I …
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Per Brinch Hansen's books on compilers
Brinch Hansen was one of the pioneers of concurrent programming and operating systems (kernels). In the 1960s, Brinch Hansen worked at the Danish computer company Regnecentralen, first in the compiler group headed by Peter Naur and Jørn Jensen, and, later, as the chief architect of the RC 4000 minicomputer and its…
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Build a Game This November with GitHub Game Off
Game Off, our annual game jam (a hackathon for building games) returns this weekend. Participants will be given a secret theme on November 1 and will have the entire month…
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How you could have come up with Paxos yourself
In the field of computer science, the Paxos algorithm is notorious for how difficult it is to understand. I had to learn the Paxos algorithm in my distributed systems class. I even have "implemented" it by translating Leslie Lamport's TLA+ to Python. But I didn't understand it until much much later.
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Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation
I love text layout, and have been working with it in one form or other for over 35 years. Yet, knowledge about it is quite arcane. I don’t believe there is a single place where it’s all properly written down. I have some explanation for that: while basic text layout is very important for UI, games, and other contexts…
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Graphics in Qt 6.0: QRhi, Qt Quick, Qt Quick 3D
The state of Qt 6.0 graphics on Vulkan, OpenGL, Metal, Direct3D 11. Qt Quick API changes. Qt Quick 3D new features in Qt 6.
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Web Scraping with JavaScript
If you’ll try to google “web scraping tutorial” you’ll get a bunch of tech articles on the subject that tells you how to achieve the result using python. The…
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Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla
We announced the Bytecode Alliance nearly a year ago, and since then it has been… quite a year 😬
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Why I'm Tcl-Ish
Colin Macleod Dundee Barnet Greece Tcl C++ Bloomberg Alcatel Intrasoft Autism
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We chose Java for our high-frequency trading application
In the world of High-Frequency Trading, automated applications process hundreds of millions of market signals every day and send back…
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An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
Every lisp hacker I ever met, myself included, thought that all those brackets in Lisp were off-putting and weird. At first, of course. Soon after we all came to the same epiphany: lisp’s power lies in those brackets ! In this essay, we’ll go on a journey to that epiphany.
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Three open source Sonos projects: efficient embedded development in Rust
Read more about the unique combination of software and hardware that powers the Sonos ecosystem. Welcome to our technology blog.
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/.bashrc VS –/.profile VS –/.bash_profile
Customize Shell Environment and Appearance
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Admitting That Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (2007)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition
Discover how Anki can enhance your memory and productivity in computer science and maths. Learn techniques from G-Research's expert insights.
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Ungrammar
rust-analyzer is a new
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A one-line change decreased our build times by 99%
Urvashi Reddy | Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity Team Adam Berry | Tech Lead, Engineering Productivity Team Rui Li | Software…
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Language Design with Leo White
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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LiveCode is a modern day HyperCard (2019)
AndreGarzia.com website
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Better Than JSON?
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites . This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Four features that justify a new Unix shell
On a lobste.rs thread about the rationale for the Fennel language, I posted this summary of why Oil exists:
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Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software
We think that Tech Debt is just lousy code written by reckless people. Here's a bigger picture view of what that really means in a Sustainable Software era.
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Node.js 15.0
This blog was written by Bethany Griggs, with additional contributions from the Node.js Technical Steering Committee.