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Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast
The entire V8 compiler pipeline was overhauled and shipped with Node.js version 8. This post investigates what speed improvements we can expect as a result.
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Augmenting Agile with Formal Methods
I really like the c2 wiki as a historical artifact: a lot of big names in Agile and Extreme Programming argued with each other there.1 One thing they did was the Extreme Programming Challenge, where people tried to test the limits of these approaches. They’d find edge problems (designing databases, remote teams, etc)…
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Announcing TypeScript 3.0
TypeScript 3.0 is here! Today marks a new milestone in the TypeScript journey, serving JavaScript users everywhere.If you're unfamiliar with TypeScript,
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If monads are the solution, what is the problem?
Monads have exerted a curious fascination on programmers who turn to Haskell. The incomprehension of the newbies is matched in intensity onl...
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How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit
Lewis Van Winkle, he creator of F5Bot—a free service that emails you when selected keywords are mention on Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters—explains in detail how it works, and how it's able to scrape million of Reddit comments per day.
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Elastic TabStops: A Better Way to Indent and Align Code (2017)
Elastic tabstops - a better way to indent and align code
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Java's Magic Sauce
Read Java blog posts to learn how to save on license fees, get better performance, use more secure Java, and optimize cloud costs.
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A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS standard was released people noticed something strange - several of the added characters had no…
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Fear of Macros
Practical Racket macros
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Is Cobol holding you hostage with Math?
Face it: nobody likes fractions, not even computers.
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A response about dep and vgo
Peter Bourgon has a web site, and this is that web site.
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How to implement a basic ActivityPub server
Today we’ll be looking at how to connect the protocols powering Mastodon in the simplest way possible to enter the federated network. We will use static files, standard command-line tools, and some simple Ruby scripting, although the functionality should be easily adaptable to other programming languages. First…
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Why Discord Is Sticking with React Native
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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GCC 8.2 Released
This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 8. You may also want to check out our Porting to GCC 8 page and the full GCC documentation .
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Elixir v1.7 released
Elixir v1.7 includes many quality of life improvements, focusing on documentation, Logger and ExUnit, as well as a new Elixir Core team member.
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Introduction to compute shaders
Anteru's blog is a blog about development, software architecture and 3D graphics.
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Modern C++ for C Programmers: part 5
Welcome back! In part 4 we went over the nitty-gritty of lambdas and how to store them, we explored the relation between the various C++ algorithms and containers, plus we took a stroll through some non-standard containers with exceptional capabilities. Note: part 1 is here. In this probably final part 5, we’ll be…
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Freezing Python’s Dependency Hell
A simpler solution for a complicated problem
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Pointers Are Complicated, or What’s in a Byte?
This summer, I am again working on Rust full-time, and again I will work (amongst other things) on a “memory model” for Rust/MIR. However, before I can talk about the ideas I have for this ...
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Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud
Announcing Go Cloud, for portable cloud programming with Go.
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Our Use of Haskell and Elm
Over the last year, our team has built a beautiful and advanced Smart Cities system using functional languages. I wrote this document to explain our technology choices to stakeholders and partners.
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Efficiently Generating a Number in a Range
The vast majority of my posts about random number generation have focused on looking at the properties of different generation schemes. But, perhaps surprisingly, the performance of your randomized a
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