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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 679 posts.
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Code snippets on Microsoft website shown in form of images.
Azure Translator is a cloud-based machine translation service you can use to translate text through a simple REST API call. The service uses modern neural machine translation technology and offers statistical machine translation technology. Custom Translator is an extension of Translator, which allows you to build…
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Thoughts on Python 3
My current thoughts on the state of Python 3 and where it’s heading.
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really bad attitude
The first three newsgroups created inside Netscape (then Mosaic Communications ), when our news server went online the first time, were mcom.general, mcom.humour, and mcom.bad-attitude.
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MemShrink progress report, week 23
The only significant MemShrink-related change that landed this week was that David Anderson removed TraceMonkey , the tracing JIT compiler. In fact, TraceMonkey was disabled a while ago, so the effects on code size and memory consumption of its removal have been felt since then. But it feels more real now that the…
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The Mature Programmer
1. The Mature Programmer The mature programmer manages their own time and productivity well. The MP knows that maintenance is as much wo...
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PEP 263 – Defining Python Source Code Encodings
This PEP proposes to introduce a syntax to declare the encoding of a Python source file. The encoding information is then used by the Python parser to interpret the file using the given encoding. Most notably this enhances the interpretation of Unicode ...
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Moving from SVN to Git in 1,000 easy steps
This past summer we completed a project that spanned several months of planning and preparation - moving our source control from...
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VP trees: A data structure for finding stuff fast
<img src="http://stevehanov.ca/wavelet/cup.png"/> Let's say you have millions of pictures of faces tagged with names. Given a new photo, how do you find the name of person that the photo most resembles? <p> In the cases I mentioned, each record has hundreds or thousands of elements: the pixels in a photo, or patterns…
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LLVM 3.0 Released
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.0. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the…
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Only fast languages are interesting
If this isn’t a Zawinski quote, it should be. I have avoided the JVM my entire life. I am presently confronted with problems which fit in the JVM; JVM libraries, concurrency, giant data: all …
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Yammer moving from Scala to Java
Following up on my recent Scala posts , some commented that because I haven't used Scala seriously, my opinion is of little value. I respo...
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Fuzzy string search
Intro Fuzzy search algorithms (also known as similarity search algorithms) are a basis of spell-checkers and full-fledged search engines lik...
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Matrix multiplication in O(n^2.373)
For twenty years, the fastest known algorithm to multiply two n-by-n matrices, due to Coppersmith and Winograd, took a leisurely O(n2.376) steps. Last year, though, in his PhD thesis, Andrew Stot…
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Back in the Django saddle
As a co-creator and one of the two Benevolent Dictators for Life of Django , my responsibility is to guide the open-source project forward. I did a great job of this for several years: from our open-sourcing in July 2005 (and for about two years prior to that), I was rather obsessed with it, contributing thousands of…
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Equations True Computer Science Geeks Should (at Least Pretend to) Know
This idea is a complete rip off an article that appeared in Wired a little while ago and it got me thinking what would my list for Compu...
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Developer Income Report #16
Goal reached! My regular income still seems to grow. My lastly introduced in my “Make Money on Android” eBook method seems to be working very well (not only for me – check lastly …
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Abstract algebra for developers and people who hate math
Hi. I think math is really cool, but, most people (sadly) don't think so. This includes many programmers who in fact enjoy many of the sam...