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This is the fifth part of the Bash One-Liners Explained article series. In this part I'll teach you how to quickly navigate around the command line in bash using emacs-style keyboard shortcuts. That's right, emacs-style keyboard shortcuts. It might surprise you but by default bash uses emacs-style keyboard shortcuts...
LLVM is a complex piece of software. There are several paths one may take on the quest of understanding how it works, none of which is simple. I recently had to dig in some areas of LLVM I was not previously familiar with, and this article is one of the outcomes of this quest.
We're pleased to announce the 2.0 beta 1 release of PyPy. This release is not a typical beta, in a sense the stability is the same or bette...
Lazy evaluation is awesome. What if we made a PL where every data type was lazy?
What does the following code do? If you answered
It’s well known that volatile in Java doesn’t mean the same thing as atomic . As Jeremy Manson says :
Mail::RFC822::Address is a Perl module to validate email addresses according to the RFC 822 grammar. It provides the same functionality as RFC::RFC822::Address, but uses Perl regular expressions rather that the Parse::RecDescent parser. This means that the module is much faster to load as it does not need to compile…
Samuel Clay is a grad student in the schools of design and of engineering at Harvard. He founded NewsBlur , a personal RSS news reader, and Turn Touch , beautiful control for the smart home.
Designing around the messages, rather than the objects, brought my whole system into focus. If modules communicate by passing around self-contained textual data, or a simple structured format like JSON, they impose fewer assumptions on each other.
In 2011, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of MIT, the Boston Globe made a list of the most important innovations developed there. They asked me to explain the importance of SICP, and this is what I sent them:
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
Today, Mozilla Research publicly announced the Shumway project . Shumway is JS/HTML library which displays SWF (Flash) content entirely using open web technologies.
I thought I'd share my favorite regex of all time. [ -~] Any idea what this regexp matches? Scroll down for the answer. . . . . . . . . It matches all ASCII characters from the space to tilde. What are these characters? These are all printable characters! Take a look at this ASCII table. Printable characters start…
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One rainy evening I meditated about memory managment in Java and how effectively Java collections utilise memory. I made simple experiment, how much entries can I insert into Java Map with 16 GB of RAM?
Happy 3rd birthday, Go!
Whenever people start talking about NP-Complete problems, or even NP problems, one of the first examples they reach for is the classic Traveling Salesperson Problem. TSP makes sense because it int...
An article about Lisp programming language.
An article describing the experience of writing a Lisp interpreter in Haskell.
Yesterday I received a new serious bug report against Mono in Debian. For those not in the know, “serious” severity is release critical, and can trigger removal of a package from the di…
