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ChesSMS: Using Unicode to play Chess over SMS
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I am a terrible programmer
I recently got this from the co-founder of Artsicle, a startup I interned for over the summer after my freshman year: From: Scott Carleton Subject: just re
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E17 (Enlightenment) enters alpha after 12 years
Enlightenment is a Window Manager, Compositor and Minimal Desktop for Linux (the primary platform), BSD and any other compatible UNIX system. Source code releases are on our download page. Visit our contribute page for our latest source code repositories.
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The birthday paradox in action: calculating the probability of a hash collision
You may feel like you've seen this before. If you have, skip to the end where I talk about a formula, and discuss the relevance to parameters in computer hashing algorithms. In particular, I'm going to talk about how large hash spaces should be to avoid collisions with a given level of probability. If there are just…
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Meet the new Light Table
We have to start with a picture. Or hey, just go download it and see for yourself.
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A case against syntax highlighting
Do you rely on syntax highlighting when developing software? If so, you may be shooting yourself in the foot. In this post, I will argue that syntax highlighting, while aesthetically seductive, moves focus from content to form, and discourages those who look at the code from trying to understand it.
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I fixed a bug in Python
About a month ago, I found a bad-behavior bug in the tokenize standard library module, and with help from Aron Griffis, submitted a patch to fix it. Yesterday was a Python bug day, and Ezio Melotti merged my change, so I have officially contributed to CPython!
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The Background Noise Was Louder than I Realized
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Google Address Sanitizer ("compile-time valgrind") to be part of GCC 4.8
This is the mail archive of the gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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No Copyrights on APIs: Help Us Make The Case
Earlier this year, we applauded District Court Judge Alsup for getting it right and holding that, as a matter of law, one could not copyright APIs. The case, Oracle v. Google, is now on appeal to the Federal Circuit, where a three-judge panel is going to revisit Judge Alsup’s ruling.We’ve explained...
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Great Hackers (2004)
July 2004 (This essay is derived from a talk at Oscon 2004.) A few months ago I finished a new book , and in reviews I keep noticing words like "provocative'' and "controversial.'' To say nothing of "idiotic.'' I didn't mean to make the book controversial. I was trying to make it efficient. I didn't want to waste…
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C++11 and Boost - Succinct like Python
C++11 is the new standard of C++ that was released last year. Yes, I know that is now 2012, but compilers are just now starting to catch up and …
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Time Spent Waiting for an Answer in StackOverflow (by language)
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The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't
Preface This is a technical article chronicling one of the most interesting bug hunts I’ve had the pleasure of chasing down. At AdGear Technologies Inc. where I work, ssh is king. We use it for management, monitoring, deployments, log file harvesting, even some event streaming. It’s solid, reliable, has all the…
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Windows 8 Doesn’t Want Your App. Try Again Later
A developer blog about the small things that make good software great.
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Python for Data Analysis
I recommend using Python for data analysis, and I recommend Wes McKinney's book Python for Data Analysis. I prefer Python to R for mathematical computing because mathematical computing doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's always other stuff to do. I find doing mathematical programming in a general-purpose language is…