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The Importance of End-to-End Thinking in System Design
I once attended a talk by Yoky Matsuoka when I was young – so young, in fact, that I don’t remember when or where the talk was. What I do remember is her telling the story of designing…
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Attempts to make Python fast
Posted on Hacker News there was an Implementation Plan for making CPython (the official Python implementation) faster. The author claims a 5x speedup is possible for the low cost of $2 million USD.
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/* You Are Not Expected to Understand This */ (2018)
<a href="https://community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/breakfast-bytes"></a>The title of this post, you are not expected to understand this, is one of the most famous comments ever. It is in the v6 version of Unix, the mother operating system of Linux, Android,and iOS. Unix was developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken…
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Hands-Free Coding: How I develop software using dictation and eye-tracking
Earlier this year, I lost the ability to use a keyboard and mouse for extended periods. Fortunately, this wasn't as catastrophic as it sounds! This article chronicles my experience using adaptive tools like dictation and eye-tracking as my primary mechanisms for writing code.
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Localisation is too hard for Gmail
/ləʊk(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The ability to adjust a user-interface to the user's local language or dialect Because I live in the UK, I speak en_GB (English, Great Britain) rather than en_US (English, Simplified United States). Mostly, all dialects of English are mutually intelligible. Sure, the Brits love the letter U and…
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Forcing Functions in Software Development
Here’s an unavoidable fact: the software project you’re working on has some flaws that no one knows about. Not you, your users, nor anyone in your team. These could be anything from fau…
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What ORMs Have Taught Me: Just Learn SQL (2014)
I’ve come to the conclusion that, for me, ORMs are more detriment than benefit. In short, they can be used to nicely augment working with SQL in a program, but they should not replace it.
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SQLite now allows multiple recursive SELECT statements in a single recursive CTE
Is there any command to see the history of a file beyond renames, similar to git log --follow <file> ?
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Julia GPU
Lambdaclass's blog about distributed systems, machine learning, compilers, operating systems, security and cryptography.
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Fast UTF-8 validation
One of the most common "data type" in programming is the text string. When programmers think of a string, they imagine that they are dealing with a list or an array of characters. It is often a "good enough" approximation, but reality is more complex. The characters must be encoded into bits in some way. Most ……
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Just Write the Parser
Tiark Rompf is an Associate Professor at Purdue University. Notes and blog posts on programming, research, CS, software systems.
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PEP 635 – Structural Pattern Matching: Motivation and Rationale
This PEP provides the motivation and rationale for PEP 634 (“Structural Pattern Matching: Specification”). First-time readers are encouraged to start with PEP 636, which provides a gentler introduction to the concepts, syntax and semantics of patterns.
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A brief introduction to BEAM
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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PEP 634 – Structural Pattern Matching: Specification
This PEP provides the technical specification for the match statement. It replaces PEP 622, which is hereby split in three parts:
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Assorted Thoughts on Zig and Rust
I've been using zig for ~4 months worth of side projects, including a toy text editor and an interpreter for a relational language . I've written ~10kloc.
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Better Git diff output for Ruby, Python, Elixir, Go
A small tweak to your Git config that will make the diff output smarter and more language aware
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Python For Feature Film
A look into how Python is used to bring your favorite movies to the big screen.
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Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes
Describing technical and design issues associated with having creatures that occupy multiple cells in the grid-based world of a roguelike, with solutions.
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Monospace: A JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the demo competition
MONOSPACE: Flip dots with feelings, a JavaScript demo in 1021 bytes, winner of the 1024 bytes demo competition at Assembly 2020.
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Managing Technical Quality in a Codebase
If there’s one thing that engineers, engineering managers, and technology executives are likely to agree on, it’s that there’s a crisis of technical quality. One diagnosis and cure is easy to identify: our engineers aren’t prioritizing quality, and we need to hire better engineers or retrain the ones we have. Of…
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C++ still isn't cutting it
A blog about computer science, systems, technology, and sometimes vegan cooking.
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Object Detection at 1840 FPS with TorchScript, TensorRT and DeepStream
In this article we take performance of the SSD300 model even further, leaving Python behind and moving towards true production deployment technologies: TorchScript, TensorRT and DeepStream. We also identify and understand several limitations in Nvidia’s DeepStream framework, and then remove them by modifying how the…
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How Does a C Debugger Work? (2014)
Debugging, GNU± Linux and WebHosting and ... and ...
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We deleted the production database by accident
This is pure disaster porn. It’s the story of how I drank some wine and then managed to delete the production database. Thankfully there was a backup.
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Does C++ still deserve a bad rap?
Traditionally C++ has been seen by many (and you know who you are) as just plain bad: the code is unreadably verbose, error messages are und...
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Porn, Zen, and .vimrc
Vim is a customizable text editor geared towards writing code. But open-ended configuration possibilities lure users into wasting time while chasing after perceived minute gains in productivity. This article describes my Vim journey, starting from heavy personal customization and ending with a renewed love for…
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Nim 1.4
We are very proud to announce Nim version 1.4 after six months of continuous development! Other than version 1.0, this is probably the biggest Nim release yet and we’re very excited to release it!