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Scala at scale at Databricks
Explore how Databricks leverages Scala for large-scale data processing, enhancing performance and developer productivity.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,517 posts.
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Stack Graphs
Precise code navigation is powered by stack graphs, a new open source framework that lets you define the name binding rules for a programming language.
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Modus Themes
The Modus themes for Emacs meet the highest accessibility standard for colour contrast. This is their official manual.
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Lessons learned after working one year as a Common Lisp Developer (2018)
I intented this to be a small post with some lessons learned after working one year as a CL dev, however it turned out quite long (two parts!). As always: All opinions are my own. This post is not endorsed by anybody.
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Writing a register based VM in less than 125 lines of C code
This tutorial is intended for intermediate C developers who want to get some coding practice and, in the process, gain valuable insights into low-level programming and how (some) Virtual Machines operate under the hood. The reader should already be comfortable with bitwise operations, hexadecimal notation, pointers…
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Hacking the Go compiler to add a new keyword
I forked and modified Go compiler to add a new keyword called let, as alias for var
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Improving GitHub Code Search
Today, we are rolling out a technology preview for GitHub code search, the next iteration for search, discovery, and navigation on GitHub.
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Bjarne Stroustrup: “I Did It for You All” (2007)
On the 1st of January, 1998, Bjarne Stroustrup gave an interview to the IEEE’s ‘Computer’ magazine..
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Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer
My exploration into making a 90s style fantasy console inspired by the PS1
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PowerShell Inventor Jeffrey Snover Interview
We had a great talk with Jeffrey Snover, Microsoft Technical Fellow and CTO for Modern Workforce Transformation. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell. Enjoy full interview on our website.
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MicroStudio now supports microScript, Python, JavaScript and Lua
This is quite the big update: you can now choose from 4 programming languages for your microStudio project: **microScript**, **Python**, **JavaScript** or **Lua**! All this still from your web browser. With any of these 4 languages, you have access to all the microStudio goodness: live edit your code, live help and…
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You Can't Buy Integration
The usual build-versus-buy rules for applications don't apply to integration
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Django 4.0
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on Dec. 7, 2021
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No Easter Eggs in Curl
Easter egg; noun: An unexpected or undocumented feature in a piece of computer software, included as a joke or a bonus. There are no Easter eggs in curl. For the good. I've been asked about this many times. Among the enthusiast community, people seem to generally like the concept of Easter eggs and hidden treasures, ……
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WebAssembly and Back Again: Fine-Grained Sandboxing in Firefox 95
In Firefox 95, we're shipping a sandboxing technology called RLBox — developed with researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Texas
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How the GNU coreutils are tested
Tools and techniques used to test coreutils
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How to make any immutable data structure distributed
Spark-style distributed datasets can be modeled with a few lines of code, using Unison's distributed computing library. This article teaches you how.
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NoiseCraft: Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound and Music
NoiseCraft: a Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound & Music
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Re-thinking electronic mail
There are many problems with the existing Internet email system, such as spam, scam, surveillance, insecurity, centralization, and complexity. The problems are starting to outweigh the benefits of the system. Fixing the problems by evolving the current system seems overwhelmingly difficult. This essay examines some…
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Programming War Stories: macOS Freeware/Shareware (2019)
Aaron Giles is a Seattle-area programmer, musician, web developer, and graphic designer.
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One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again
I became a big fan of Minecraft when I first started playing it in early-2011. I have stopped in recent years since I find it dangerously addictive, though I sometimes keep up with the new changes. Today I want to look back at a development mistake that was made in Beta 1.8, one that took a decade to recover from.
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All Horses Are the Same Color
Problem: Show that all horses are of the same color. “Solution”: We will show, by induction, that for any set of $ n$ horses, every horse in that set has the same color. Suppose $ n=1$, this is obviously true. Now suppose for all sets of $ n$ horses, every horse in the set has the same color. Consider any set $ H$ of…
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Writing and publishing a Python module in Rust
This post is a quick walkthrough of how I wrote a Python library, procmaps , in nothing but Rust. It uses PyO3 for the bindings and maturin to manage the build (as well as produce manylinux1 -compatible wheels).
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Three Ways to Debug Code in Elixir
Explore three common methods of debugging code in Elixir, as well as how to debug Elixir processes using trace and observer.
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LLVM internals, part 4: attributes and attribute groups
This is the last post I plan to do on parsing LLVM’s bitcode, at least for a while. I’ll keep working on the various libraries that I’ve started under the mollusc umbrella, but they won’t be accompanied by regular posts anymore — I’d like to refocus on writing smaller, less dense (read: lower-pressure) posts for a…
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Fast CSV Processing with SIMD
I recently learned of csvquote , a tool that encodes troublesome CSV characters such that unix tools can correctly process them. It reverses the encoding at the end of the pipeline, recovering the original input. The original implementation handles CSV quotes using the straightforward, naive method. However, there’s a…