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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,304 posts.
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Ruby 2.4.0-preview1 released
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.4.0-preview1.
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An interactive way of blogging about JavaScript
blogging klipse javascript repl live examples code snippets
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The limited value of a computer science education
I started programming at the age of 10 on my TI-82 graphing calculator. I loved video games as ...
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Visualising the .NET Garbage Collector
As part of an ongoing attempt to learn more about how a real-life Garbage Collector (GC) works (see part 1) and after being inspired by Julia Evans’ excellent post gzip + poetry = awesome I spent a some time writing a tool to enable a live visualisation of the .NET GC in action.
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Go Debian: Writing Debian tooling in Go
As some of the world knows full well by now, I’ve been noodling with Go for a few years, working through its pros, its cons, and thinking a lot about how humans use code to express thoughts and ideas. Go’s got a lot of neat use cases, suited to particular problems, and used in the right place, you can see some clear…
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Advanced programming languages (2009)
Students often ask for a recommendation on what language they should learn next. If you're looking for a job in industry, my reply is to learn whatever is hot right now: C++, Java and C#--and probably Python, Ruby, PHP and Perl too.
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Building the Gyroscope App with React Native
Losing twenty pounds while building our HealthKit app
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Long Names are Long
One smart thing Google does is rigorous code reviews. Every change, before you can land it, gets reviewed in at least two ways. First, someone on the team does a normal review to make sure the code does what it’s supposed to.
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Synthesizing a Plucked String Sound with the Karplus-Strong Algorithm
If you are looking to synthesize the sound of a plucked string, there is an amazingly simple algorithm for doing so called the Karplus-Strong Algorithm. Give it a listen: KarplusStrong.wav Here it …
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Generative Models
This post describes four projects that share a common theme of enhancing or using generative models, a branch of unsupervised learning techniques in machine learning. In addition to describing our work, this post will tell you a bit more about generative models: what they are, why they are important, and where they…
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Faithful Elm and the Amazing Router
Building an Elm demo app to show how Elm can be used in a project.
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Latest update to my friend's 19 year side project
I've made a lot of progress recently focusing on refining my procedural planets and atmospheres. Added into the mix are multi-core particle...
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K-Nearest Neighbors from Scratch
Using JavaScript, we implement the k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm from the bottom up.
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The Story of Haskell at IMVU
An interesting blog post and its corresponding comment thread on Hacker News made me realize that, while I'd told the story of Haskell at IMVU to many people, I'd never written it down. :)
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Four months with Haskell
At the end of January of this year, I switched to a new job, almost exclusively because I was enticed by the idea of being able to write Haskell. The concept of using such an interesting programming language every day instead of what I’d been doing before (mostly Rails and JavaScript) was very exciting, and I’m…
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“Safe C++ Subset” Is Vapourware
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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A SoundCloud client in React and Redux
Build a React + Redux SoundCloud Client. It is a huge tutorial where you build an example real world application. Learn React JS and Redux along the way. Consume the SoundCloud API, login and interact...
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