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Quasi-Polynomial Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism
Update (Dec. 14): The long wait is over! Here’s Laci’s paper on the arXiv. So far, I’ve read it only deeply enough to note that it contains the following sentence: A group G ≤ S…
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Browser Engines 2015: Commit Rates and Active Developer Counts
I used to work as a developer in the “core” group at Opera that developed thePresto web engine. During this period, I often wondered just how many developers...
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The Kotlin Language: 1.0 Beta Is Here
We are extremely pleased to present Kotlin 1.0 Beta for JVM and Android! To recap: Kotlin is a modern programming language that JetBrains has been working on for quite some time now. This post gives
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IntelliJ IDEA 15 Released, Adds Kotlin to the Family of Supported JVM Languages
Great news from the JetBrains team: today we're announcing the release of IntelliJ IDEA 15!As always, the new IntelliJ IDEA release brings a rich set of new features, better user interface, more bui
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The git repo as art.
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Fuzzing FFmpeg for fun and profit
One of the great things about having rack-space in our new office is that we can now support open source projects using our equipment such as FFmpeg and Libav. They are critical parts of our software as well as underpin much of multimedia processing in the world today.
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Atom 1.1 is out
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Random Acts of Optimization
Game developers working on a continuously evolving product like League of Legends are constantly battling against the forces of entropy as they add more and more content into unfortunately finite machines. New content carries implicit cost…
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PyPy 4.0.0 Released – A Jit with SIMD Vectorization and More
PyPy 4.0.0 We’re pleased and proud to unleash PyPy 4.0.0, a major update of the PyPy python 2.7.10 compatible interpreter with a Just In ...
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Rreverrse Debugging
rr is the debugger for Rust (et al.) that is is almost too good to be true.
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Why you might want to choose Ceylon
The Eclipse Ceylon™ project encompasses development of the language itself (the language specification), the compiler frontend (typechecker), the compiler backends for Java and JavaScript
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Introducing Shadow DOM API
We’re pleased to announce that basic support for the new slot-based shadow DOM API is now available in the nightly builds.
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HAproxy in the era of Microservices
Tales of a Software Craftsman
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Java 8’s new Optional type doesn't solve anything
When Java 8 was released, I was excited to see the new Optional type. The null reference is a common source of errors in most languages…
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Five Things Old Programmers Should Remember
(even if you’re not that old)
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Good Practices for Writing Rust Libraries
For a bit more than a year now, I've been interested in Rust , a programming language by Mozilla research that “runs blazingly fast, prevents nearly all segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.” It is as low-level as C or C++, has a nice type system (with generics and traits), a helpful compiler, and a…
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The Plum-O-Meter: Weighing Plums Using 3D Touch in Swift
Here at FlexMonkey Towers, the ever beautiful Mrs FlexMonkey and I love to spend our Sunday mornings luxuriating in bed drinking Mimosa...
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LLVM Code Generation in HHVM
One of the most common questions we get about HHVM is why we don’t use LLVM for code generation. The primary reason has always been that while LLVM is great ...
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Rr 4.0 Debugger Released with Reverse Execution
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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A story about <input>
Monica Dinculescu's blog
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Deploying a Django App with No Downtime
When healthchecks.io started to receive more than 1 request per second, it became clear I could not just go on carelessly restarting web…
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Adventures in financial and software engineering
This post describes how to implement a DSL for pricing financial contracts in Scala