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Rust at OneSignal
Read all about our blazing fast Push Notification delivery system, OnePush, which is written in The Rust Programming Language.
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Lock-Free Bugs
[ I wrote this post in mid-2014 for debuggers.co, which seems to have gone at least partly defunct, so I am reproducing it here. That site collected answers from programmers to the prompt “What’s the most interesting bug you’ve encountered?” ]
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Why isn't memset() async-signal-safe?
Really, POSIX? Really? memset() isn't async-signal-safe? How is it not safe? … oh … that's why
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Getting Past C
One of the medium-term possibilities we’re seriously considering forNTPsec is moving the entire codebase out of C into a language with nobuffer overrun...
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Writing a Faster Sorting Algorithm
These days it’s a pretty bold claim if you say that you invented a sorting algorithm that’s 30% faster than state of the art. Unfortunately I have to make a far bolder claim: I wrote a …
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Why recursive data structures?
In this essay, we are going to look at recursive algorithms, and how sometimes, we can organize an algorithm so that it resembles the data structure it manipulates, and organize a data structure so that it resembles the algorithms that manipulate it.
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Dolphin Progress Report: December 2016
We have celebrated the 15th anniversary of the GameCube and the 10th anniversary of the Wii in the last few months. As the Wii's successor, and the brand lineage, has been discontinued in the run-up to the release of the Switch, it is a time for reflection. But, this doesn't mean an end for the GameCube and Wii; if…
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Welcome to Gitea
Gitea is a community fork of the popular self hosted Git service Gogs. We're a growing group of former Gogs users and contributors who found the single maintainer management model of Gogs frustrating and thus decided to make an effort to build a more open and faster development m
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How I Write Tests
The longer I spend as a software engineer, the more obsessive I get about testing. I fully subscribe to the definition of legacy code as “code without an automated test suite.” I’m convinced that the best thing you can do to encourage fast progress in a test suite is to design for testing and have a fast, reliable…
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How (Not?) to Use Python’s List Comprehensions
Lesser known is that you can have nested list comprehensions, that handle nested for loops:
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The Memory Models That Underlie Programming Languages
There are about six major conceptualizations of memory, which I’m calling “memory models”, that dominate today’s programming.
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Be Careful with Python's New-Style String Format
Some general warnings about the use of str.format in Python.
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Why Clojure? (2010)
I have recently become quite an enthusiast for the language Clojure . But why? Why would someone who has spent the last 30 years programmi...
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A new year resolution to have Crystal reach the 1.0 milestone in 2017
Crystal has gone a long way since we started it over five years ago. What was once an experiment to see if it was possible to have a compiled yet Ruby-like language, is now a trending language with over 7,000 GitHub stargazers and almost 1,400 shards. Its popularity has risen considerably in the last few years, and we…
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Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews
See what we learned running technical interviewing for over 3,000 software engineers.
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Microsoft Word for Windows Version 1.1a Source Code (2014)
The dominant word processing program for personal computers in the 1980s was DOS-based WordPerfect. Microsoft Word for DOS, which had been released in 1983, was an also-ran.
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Quoting command line arguments the wrong way (2011)
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