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Grappling with Go
In a previous blog post, I observed that one of the medium-termpossibilities we’re seriously considering for NTPsec is moving theentire codebase out of...
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More on GVFS
After watching a couple of days of GVFS conversation, I want to add a few things. What problems are we solving? GVFS (and the related Git optimizations) really solves 4 distinct problems: A large number of files – Git doesn’t naturally work well with hundreds of thousands or millions of files in your working set…
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What do you mean by “Event-Driven”?
Some notes on the different patterns that may be present when people talk about event-driven architectures.
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68 things the CLR does before executing a single line of your code
Because the CLR is a managed environment there are several components within the runtime that need to be initialised before any of your code can be executed. This post will take a look at the EE (Execution Engine) start-up routine and examine the initialisation process in detail.
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TensorFlow Fold: Deep Learning with Dynamic Computation Graphs
Posted by Moshe Looks, Marcello Herreshoff and DeLesley Hutchins, Software EngineersIn much of machine learning, data used for training and inferen...
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Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack
Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast and performant as possible with Vue and webpack.
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Selenium IDE alternatives for UI regression testing
If you’re searching for good Selenium IDE alternatives, you’re not alone. People discuss record-playback IDEs all the time, on most testing automation forums that I’ve seen. And, in fact, there are several modern cloud-based platforms that seem to record-playback right.
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Why I moved from Angular to React
The article should help people to understand the benefits of React and Angular for making an educated decision to choose between Angular or React. It tells my story why I moved from Angular to React after using both libraries for years. It's not just another click-bait article, but an article with lots of experiences…
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In Defense of C++
I really like C++. It's not the right tool for every job, but it's what I reach for when I need to do any kind of systems programming. Unfortunately, C++ has often been cited as a "bad" language, and I feel like that reputation has worsened over time. Recent languages like Go and Rust have taken over a lot of mind…
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Why Don't We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor? (2014)
We have excellent tools to create and edit text (vim, emacs, sublime, etc.). We have pretty good tools to create and edit tabular data (excel, other spreadsh...
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What Rust Can Do That Other Languages Can't
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Building a Lisp from scratch with Swift
This article describes how you can build a simple LISP, based on the 1978 article <i>'A Micro Manual For LISP - Not The Whole Truth'</i> with Swift, taking advantage where possible of the features the language offers.
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The TTY demystified (2008)
The TTY subsystem is central to the design of Linux, and UNIX in general. Unfortunately, its importance is often overlooked, and it is difficult to find good introductory articles about it. I believe that a basic understanding of TTYs in Linux is essential for the developer and the advanced user.
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Using tmux properly
In the beginning, it was just me and the (plain) terminal. Then I started using Byobu, because it was company-standard at my first job. Later I installed tmux on my personal computer because it seemed more popular. And every time I work on a remote server, I use Screen. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
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An Even Easier Introduction to CUDA
A quick and easy introduction to CUDA programming for GPUs. This post dives into CUDA C++ with a simple, step-by-step parallel programming example.
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Smaller Code, Better Code
I was enjoying some pizza the other day with some buddies that know a bit about my research and understand where I am coming from with regards to my own computing aesthetics. They understand that I have always pushed for the smallest code that I can get, and to simplify
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Smallpt: Global Illumination in 99 lines of C++
smallpt is a global illumination renderer. It is 99 lines of C++, is open source, and renders the above scene using unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing (click for full size) .
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Scaling Git, and some back story
A couple of years ago, Microsoft made the decision to begin a multi-year investment in revitalizing our engineering system across the company. We are a big company with tons of teams – each with their own products, priorities, processes and tools. There are some “common” tools but also a lot of diversity – with VERY…
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Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
Here at Microsoft we have teams of all shapes and sizes, and many of them are already using Git or are moving that way. For the most part, the Git client
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Announcing gopass – A 'pass' compatible password manager for teams
The slightly more awesome standard unix password manager
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Introducing PureScript Erlang back end
I’m not sure why I decided to create an Erlang backend for the PureScript compiler.The platform is somewhat interesting, but I didn’t know it, and I don’t ha...
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‘Abusing’ the C switch statement – beauty is in the eye of the beholder
The C Language Before we start, let’s get something straight; for over 30 years now I have had a love-hate relationship with the C programming language. The ‘engineer’ in me[1] sometimes just cannot believe we are still using C as the dominant embedded programming languages after all these years, and yet, I also see…