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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,834 posts.
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The Developer Coefficient: a $300B opportunity for businesses
Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models, and manage money movement.
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Python in Visual Studio Code
We are pleased to announce that the August 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we have closed a total of 38 issues including the stable release of our ptvsd 4 debugger, improvements to the language server preview, and other fixes.
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When optimising code, never guess, always measure
This page has been Tagged As Software This is a truism that lots of people quote, but it can be hard to remember, especially in the heat of battle (as it were). Rather fortunately it came to mind just when needed, as I found something completely unexpected.
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“Stateless” sync using version vectors
Isolating cloud sync and persistent storage in an app architecture.
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Maybe adding generics to Go is about syntax after all
This is a short response to the recently announced Go 2 generics draft proposals
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Measuring context switching and memory overheads for Linux threads
In this post I want to explore the costs of threads on modern Linux machines, both in terms of time and space. The background context is designing high-load concurrent servers, where using threads is one of the common schemes .
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Learning Python for Social Scientists (2015)
I’ve compiled a list of Python tutorials and annotated analyses. I've tried to list pages that are accessible to social scientists with little background in Python and/or machine learning.
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Notes on “A Philosophy of Software Design”
Jumping on the recent trend, I picked up a copy of A Philosophy of Software Design based on Cindy’s recommendation. It’s a fairly concise read at 160 pages, and I skimmed through it over the last few days, writing up some notes along the way.
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How LLVM Optimizes a Function
This is very nice summary of IR Passes. I found “InstCombine” pass to be easier to start with to understand the code flow in LLVM IR Pass. Maybe the beginners can start with that first.
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Why I never finish my Haskell programs
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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TypeScript at Google
What I've been working on the last few years.
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Notes on the Go2 Generics Draft
These notes are based on the August 27 2018 design draft for generic types in Go2.
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Multi-Armed Bandits, Conjugate Models and Bayesian Reinforcement Learning
This is the first of a two-part series about Bayesian bandit algorithms. Check out the second post here. Let’s talk about Bayesianism. It’s developed a reputation (not entirely justified, but not entirely unjustified either) for being too mathematically sophisticated or too computationally intensive to work at scale…
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Java is still available at zero-cost
The Java ecosystem has always been built on a high quality $free (zero-cost) JDK available from Oracle, and previously Sun. This is as true...
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Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on multi-terabyte heaps
Java 11 features a new Garbage Collector, the Z Garbage Collector (ZGC), which is designed for very low pause times on huge multi-terabyte heaps. In this article we'll cover the motivation for a new GC, a technical overview and some of the really exciting possibilities ZGC opens up.
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CLI: Improved
I'm not sure many web developers can get away without visiting the command line. As for me, I've been using the command line since 1997, first at university wh…
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Postgres data types you should consider using
PostgreSQL has a rich collection of extensions and nearly 100 different data types, each with their own tuned indexing or specialized functions. You probably already use integers and text, and today we're going to explore a few less-used but incredibly powerful PostgreSQL data types.
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Bye bye BetterSlack
I wrote BetterSlack and Slack asked me to take it down. Find the story here.
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Python Pandas: Tricks and Features
Lesser-known but idiomatic pandas features for those already comfortable with Pandas' basic functionality and concepts.