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A Year of Functional Programming
It's been a year since I first came across the concept of functional programming. To say it's changed my life, is an unjust understatement...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,842 posts.
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PythonJS now faster than CPython
pystone benchmark PythonJS using the dart backend is 6x faster than CPython. pystone.py nbody benchmark PythonJS using the ...
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Python to OCaml: Retrospective
In 2013, I spent 6 months converting 0install's 29,215 lines of Python to OCaml (learning OCaml along the way). In this post, I'll describe the …
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Performance comparison of Functional C++ 11, Java 8, JavaScript and Wolfram
In a recent post , Andreas declared his love for the programming language FORTRAN. He concluded his post with the question “Can a functional...
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How Protothreads Really Work
What goes on behind the magical macros in the C protothreads library? Why are they macros? How do the macros work? Read on for the explanation.
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The new X-Men movie explained in Git
I went to see X-Men: Days of Future Past last weekend. While having a heated discussion about the logic behind the time travel in the movie with fellow Rocketeer Lucas Galego, we realized that Git provides a great analogy for time travel. So here you have it, the new X-Men movie explained in Git. SPOILER ALERT If you…
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PostgreSQL columnar store benchmarks on SSDs
Citus gives you all the greatness of Postgres plus the superpowers of distributed tables. By distributing your data and queries, your application gets high performance—at any scale. The Citus database is available as open source and as a managed service on Azure.
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Raycasting
deltaDistX = sqrt(1 + (rayDirY * rayDirY) / (rayDirX * rayDirX)) deltaDistY = sqrt(1 + (rayDirX * rayDirX) / (rayDirY * rayDirY))
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Devcards – Taking Interactivity to the Next Level
Devcards is a ClojureScript library that helps developers interactively lift code examples out of their source files into an organized set of cards in the browser.
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Downloading All of Hacker News Posts and Comments
Shital Shah's personal website and blog. Research Engineer at Microsoft Research with interests in deep learning and reinforcement learning. Created AirSim, TensorWatch, archai, most recently worked on training Phi series of LLM models.
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Light Table 0.6.6
Happy to announce a new, and fairly big, release of Light Table today! The highlight of this release comes from moving LT to CodeMirror 4 , which gives us multiple cursors, tons of performance improvements, and a few other little editing niceties. Here’s a list of the new multiple cursors commands:
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Alfred and OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Apple announced OS X Yosemite today. Don't worry, Alfred is here to stay - and continues to grow beautifully.
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Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi
Learning the lesson of vi
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An upgrade to attoparsec, Haskell parsing library: more speed, more power
I’m pleased to introduce the third generation of my attoparsec parsing library. With a major change to its internals, it is both faster and more powerful than previous versions, while remaining backwards compatible. Comparing to C Let’s start with a speed comparison between the hand-written C code that powers…
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OpenGL Is Broken
UPDATE (3/20/2015) If you read this, know that Vulkan has addressed every issue I raise in this article. See my postscript here .
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The Principle of Least Power
Tim Berners-Lee on the Principle of Least Power: Computer Science spent the last forty years making languages which were as powerful as possible. Nowadays we have to appreciate the reasons for picking not the most powerful solution but the least powerful. The less powerful the language, the more you
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Go, REST APIs, and Pointers
One of the more interesting design challenges with go-github (and subsequently the one that results in the most questions) is the use of pointers for most all of the fields in our structs that are marshaled and passed to the GitHub API. After a fair amount of trial and error, I settled on the approach that I’m going…
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An alternative Haskell home page
The web site has since been through various iterations and changes, therefore I include some screenshots below for posterity (because my design is much more beautiful than what is now online ;-).
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