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It's been 418 days since my first Github commit of Go code. In that time I've written a Syslog-to-Kafka producer, a Raft-based distributed SQLite database, a near real-time log search system, and become a core developer of InfluxDB. So if there is one word to summarize Go, it's productive. I haven't had the same burst…
Lately, as I’ve had more experience with it, I’ve started to warm up to the language Go (aka “golang”).
This document is slightly out of date. None of the fundamental concepts has changed but the requires public directive has been renamed to requires transitive , and several additional capabilities have been added. An update is in preparation and will be posted here when ready.
I'm a fan of Lisp programming languages, but there's an incredible conceptual elegance that struggles to materialise as readable elegance for many unfamiliar programmers. The underlying concepts are incredibly simple, but the learning curve can represent a disproportionate challenge.
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
Natural Language Processing moves fast, so maintaining a good library means constantly throwing things away. Most libraries are failing badly at this, as academics hate to editorialize. This post explains the problem, why it's so damaging, and why I wrote spaCy to do things differently.
An example of a monadic programming in Scheme that juxtaposes Haskell code for a state monad with the corresponding Scheme code.
I was recently reading the C99 rationale (because why the fuck not) and I was intrigued by some comments that certain features were retired in C89, so I started wondering what other weird features …
This year I had the privilege to organize GopherConIndia 2015 and also interview a number of Gophers.
Go 1.5 is the first step toward a new low-latency future for the Go garbage collector.
For a while I’ve been working on a garbage collector for Rust with Nika Layzell. I thought this would be a good time to talk of our design and …
Given a string, get a truncated string of length up to 12. The task is ambiguous, as it doesn't say anything about whether or not 12 shou...
Owen Rees-Hayward - Data Engineer, Software Developer, Certified Spark Developer
Personal website of Fernando Borretti.
This piece is about how to build a modern web application with Common Lisp in the backend, from scratch.
This post is for all of the miscellaneous features that arent large enough to get their own individual posts. If you havent read all of them, here are the links to the previous posts on recompilation, inspection, class redefinition, and restarts. One somewhat obscure tool for debugging is SBCLs trace. SBCLs trace goes…
Go 1.5 adds a new, much faster garbage collector, more parallelism by default, go tool trace, and more.
Today marks a huge milestone for us - the first public release of Eve . After a ton of research , dozens of prototypes, and a slew of tests we’ve finally come to something that we think is the beginning of Eve. It’s still in its infancy with lots missing and assuredly more than a few bugs, but it’s reached a point…
From: Chris Muller, In the 17 months since Squeak 4.5 was released, a huge development effort took place to create the next generation virtual-machine for the Squeak / Pharo / Newspeak family of pr…
