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C and C++ Aren't Future Proof
My hope would be option 1 for application code (as opposed to the “systems code” that you have there): fewer and fewer people use these languages to write application code. Moreover, I think that’s probably happening to some extent.
Some Notes About Time
This is a trade-off: you can't represent a leap second, and your time is guaranteed to go backwards. On the other hand, every day has exactly 86,400 seconds, and you don't need a table of all previous and future leap seconds in order to format Unix time as human-preferred hours-minutes-seconds.
Announcing the jQuery Plugin Registry
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
JQuery 1.9 has been released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
How Erlang does scheduling
In this, I describe why Erlang is different from most other language runtimes. I also describe why it often forgoes throughput for lower la...
The State of jQuery 2013
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
We switched to Node.js: the good and the not so good
Node.js Powered
Yes, learn basic programming
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
The web.py Philosophy
The web.py slogan is: “Think about the ideal way to write a web app. Write the code to make it happen.”
How to implement an algorithm from a scientific paper
This article is a short guide to implementing an algorithm from a scientific paper. I have implemented many complex algorithms from books and scientific publications, and this article sums up what I have learned while searching, reading, coding and debugging. This is obviously limited to publications in domains…
Improved wikis with more markup options
Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…
Codecademy introduces API lessons with YouTube, SoundCloud, Parse, and more
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Two Star Programming
A Word Aligned article posted 2013-01-08, tagged C, Torvalds, Algorithms.
Advanced Vim Registers
Registers in Vim are best thought of as scratch spaces for text, some of which are automatically filled by the editor in response to certain actions. Learning how to use registers fluently has a lot of subtle benefits, although it takes some getting used to because the syntax for using them is a little awkward.