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Multiprocess Firefox
Since this January, David Anderson and I have been working on making Firefox use multiple processes. Tom Schuster (evilpie on IRC) joined us as an intern this summer, and Felipe Gomes, Mark Hammond…
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Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX
Often, when we meet other game developers and say that we use OpenGL for our game Overgrowth, we're met with stares of disbelief -- why…
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After 5 days, my OS doesn't crash when I press a key
Day 37: After 5 days, my OS doesn't crash when I press a key
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On programming without malloc
Day 36: On programming without malloc
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Exploring canvas drawing techniques
Canvas drawing techniques with live demos: pencils and smooth connections, fur and pen brushes, bezier curves, sprays, patterns, and neighbor-point webs.
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IntelliJ IDEA 13 is Released
Today we are thrilled to announce that IntelliJ IDEA 13, the next version of our award-winning Java IDE, is finally available for download.This year the IntelliJ IDEA team worked on building str
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Why Hacker News should use a different Deterministic Algorithm, Not a Random One
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Scala – 1 Star – Would Not Program Again
With Scala you feel smart having just got something to work in a beautiful way but when you look around the room to tell your clojure colleague how clever you are, you notice he left 3 hours ago and there is a post-it saying use a Map. Daniel Worthington-Bodart
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Go 1.2 is released
Go 1.2 adds test coverage results, goroutine preemption, and more.
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Clojure from the ground up: Macros
In Chapter 1 , I asserted that the grammar of Lisp is uniform: every expression is a list, beginning with a verb, and followed by some arguments. Evaluation proceeds from left to right, and every element of the list must be evaluated before evaluating the list itself. Yet we just saw, at the end of Sequences , an…
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String types are fine. How about your code?
Someone on the internet says that strings are broken, and some more people on the internet disagree. The problem is that all kinds of common operations on strings, such as counting the amount of ch…
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The string type is broken
My previous article, “We don’t need a string type“, caused a bit of stir. Though the feedback is mixed, there is a common theme of a string being a useful feature. After doing a bit more research I can determine only one thing: most current string types are broken! Many of us believe our strings […]
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Rails 3.2 Performance: Another Step Slower
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RethinkDB 1.11 is out: query profiler, new streaming algorithm, devops features
Today, we’re happy to announce RethinkDB 1.11 ( Breakfast at Tiffany’s ), which improves the experience of operating live RethinkDB deployments. Download it now!
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Docker 0.7 runs on all Linux distributions
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Boundaries
This talk is about using simple values (as opposed to complex objects) not just for holding data, but also as the boundaries between components and subsystems. It moves through many topics: functional programming; mutability's relationship to OO; isolated unit testing with and without test doubles; and concurrency, to…
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How I Automated “Finding Almost Anyone’s Email Address”
EDIT: The original article author, Rob Ousbey, has popped up on various social media sites to remind everyone to use this tool/knowledge responsibly. I agree. Please be responsible.