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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,923 posts.
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Erlang, Yaws, and the deadly Tornado
Good things sometimes happen to the open source community. Since Facebook acquisition of FriendFeed, a bunch of technologies were released to the wild, including, most notably, a Tornado web server written in Python. The Tornado is touted as a a scalable, non-blocking web server and web…
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Climbing the wrong hill
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Writing Your Own Toy Compiler Using Flex, Bison and LLVM
Update (March 19 2010): this article was updated for LLVM 2.6 thanks to a great patch by John Harrison. He rocks! I’ve always been interested in compilers and languages, but interest only gets you so far. A lot of the concepts of compiler design can easily go way over most programmers’ heads, even the intelligent…
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The Next Generation Bends Over
Mint’s sale to Intuit really pissed me off. Why should I care? Because I think it’s indicative of a VC-induced cancer that’s infecting our industry and killing off the next generation. I don’t know the full backstory, but I’d bet this sale was encouraged by a Mint i…
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Google acquires reCAPTCHA
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Steve Yegge: Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp. (2006)
Another enjoyable read. Thanks! One thing, though -- it's about time to update your understandings of Python's object system. Python's culture doesn't insist that traditional (Smalltalkish) OO is the One True Way to re-use code, but that doesn't mean that everything in Python is not an object (because they are, since…
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Properly Molding the Gamer Child
I grew up a serious gamer in a family of people who really, really weren't. I was, while loved, regarded as an oddity. A peculiar mutation. ...
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Adobe to buy Omniture for $1.8 billion
Drive growth and engage customers across channels with personalized experiences from Adobe's powerful digital marketing, analytics, commerce, AI, and automation tools.
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The Best Deal In Startup Land
Sarah Lacy has a post up on Techcrunch about Paul Graham and Y Combinator. In the post, she says: I’ve been a bit hard on Paul Graham and Y Combinator in the past. It’s not that I think he hasn’t been a great mentor to young entrepreneurs– he has. But that’s a lot of equity […]
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Sammy.js, CouchDB, and the new web architecture
UPDATE: My slides and a protected instance (will open up for play soon) or swinger, available "here":http://c.ixxr.net/swinger/_design/swinger/index.html#/preso/jqcon_09/display/1I'll be honest.
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A Square Is Not A Rectangle
The following example, taken from an introductory text in object oriented programming, demonstrates a common flaw in object oriented design. Can you spot it?
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Scheme: The Swine before Perl
In November 2001 I gave an invited talk at the inaugural Lightweight Languages conference that has since become somewhat notorious (in netspace, it is said to be “ kickassing genial ”).