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Problems with DSLs for non-programmers
DSLs are suggested to be an aid for the users that want to extend the programs they work with easily, but do they work?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,834 posts.
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Ebtrees: Elastic Binary Trees (2011)
Administrivia This article was initially posted on Wikipedia in 2008, which explains why it's written at the 3rd person and looks familiar...
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Back to Basics (2001)
We spend a lot of time on this site talking about exciting Big Picture Stuff like .NET versus Java, XML strategy, Lock-In, competitive strategy, software design, architecture, and so forth. All thi…
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To Keep Track of Reddit Conversations Around NYT Articles, We Built a Slack Bot
How we’re getting feedback from the Reddit community
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BigInt Shipping in Firefox
wingolog: article: bigint shipping in firefox!
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JavaScript Array.push is 945x faster than Array.concat
It took six whole seconds to merge 15,000 arrays with an average size of 5 elements with .concat. What the hell is the Javascript's .concat method doing under the hood?
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PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from Python's standard library
This PEP proposed a list of standard library modules to be removed from the standard library. The modules are mostly historic data formats (e.g. Commodore and SUN file formats), APIs and operating systems that have been superseded a long time ago (e.g. ...
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The C language is purely functional (2009)
Inspirations & experiments, mainly about denotative/functional programming in Haskell
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QEMU 4.0 adds micro:bit emulation support
micro:bit emulation support is available from QEMU 4.0 onwards and can be used for low-level software testing and development. Unlike existing micro:bit simulators, QEMU performs full-system emulation and actually runs the same ARM code as the real hardware. This blog post explains what full-system emulation means and…
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Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network from Scratch in Python
A simple guide to what CNNs are, how they work, and how to build one from scratch in Python.
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A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F# (2012)
A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F#
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Alan Kay and Missing Messages
Many people struggled with my article about Alan Kay and OO programming, so let's talk about the main objection.
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A new core playlist for VLC 4
The core playlist in VLC was started a long time ago . Since then, it has grown to handle too many different things, to the point it became a kind of god object .
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CQRS and Event Sourcing Intro for Developers
Oprogramowanie dla banków, ubezpieczycieli i firm leasingowych: procesy kredytowe, obsługa polis, bankowość mobilna i dane. 20+ lat, 500+ projektów.
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Technical Debt
Technical Debt is a metaphor for the consequences of cruft. You either have to accept a drag on further features (paying interest) or fix the software (paying the principal)
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Minimum Viable Phoenix
Let’s walk through the process of building a dead simple Phoenix application from the ground up.
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Python built-ins worth learning
Update: You can find a newer version of this article on Python Morsels. In every Intro to Python class I teach, there’s always at least one “how...
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Free Wolfram Engine for Developers
Full engine for the Wolfram Language can be deployed on any system--and called from programs, languages, web servers. Available for anyone to download, for free, to use in their software development projects.
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Alan Kay and OO Programming
Dr. Alan Kay invented the term "OO Programming", but he states that modern OO programming isn't what he meant. What did he mean?
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Containers, microservices, and service meshes
There is a lot of material out there about services meshes, and this is another one. Yay! But why? Because I would like to give you the perspective of someone who wish service meshes did exist 10 years ago, long before the rise of container platforms like Docker and Kubernetes. I’m not claiming that this perspective…
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The State of Apple's Developer Documentation
It appears that most of the old iOS conceptual documents have been moved to the documentation archive and are now unsupported.
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Why I’m rewriting my SaaS
I started HostiFi, a Ubiquiti cloud hosting service, 1 year ago this month. Since then, it has grown from 0 to $5,735 monthly recurring…
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Jumping Back and Forth
The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.
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Solid Principles: A Software Developer’s Framework to Robust, Maintainable Code
The SOLID principles are a set of software design principles that teach us how we can structure our functions and classes to be as robust, maintainable and flexible as possible.
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Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused
In the previous two parts we used a SAT solver as a black box that we feed input into, and it will (usually quickly) spit out an answer. In this part, we will look at how SAT solvers work and what heuristics and other tricks they employ in their quest for performance.
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Shell Completions in Rust
If you've ever hit the tab key while typing commands in the shell, you are familiar with the value of shell completions. Bash has some default completion behavior, which is why you can type hel<TAB> and end up with help . It is also possible to add additional completion scripts which define the completion behavior for…
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Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
Let’s retire the ‘virtual DOM is fast’ myth once and for all