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Go Performance Tales
This entry is cross-posted on the datadog blog . If you want to learn more about Datadog or how we deal with the mountain of data we receive, check it out!
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Improve developer habits by showing time cost of DB queries
This is the first in a series of posts where I share a quick, easy to implement tip that I’ve found useful in my development career
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bliki: Frequency Reduces Difficulty
"If it hurts - do it more often". Good advice if the amount of pain raises exponentially with the time between actions, such as for integrating software.
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Creating a Bare Bones Bootloader
Upon hearing the word 'bootloader', many people cower in fear. It seems like a scary low-level thing that's very easy to mess up. To dispel some of this fear, I'm going to walk through making a super simple bootloader/OS, assuming only a basic level of familiarity with assembly language and how computers work.
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Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help
Donate a Few Hours to Help Us Create a Free Software Backend for Contacting Congress, Make the World a Better Place for Digital Rights UPDATE (4/16/14): We're lowering the threshold for getting prizes, take a look below. For years, EFF has been helping concerned technology users contact Congress....
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Better bash in 15 minutes
The tips and tricks below originally appeared as one of Google's "T esting on the Toilet" (TOTT) episodes. This is a revised and augmen...
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A Haskell Programmer Tries to Learn Racket
https://web.archive.org/web/20201121162132/https://artyom.me/learning-racket-1
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Scalable Program Architectures
How to design resilient architectural patterns that last the test of time
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A performance comparison between Java and C on the Nexus 5
Android phones have been growing ever more powerful with time, with the Nexus 5 sporting a quad-core 2.3 GHz Krait 400; this is a very powerful CPU for a mobile …
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Software eats software development
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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GCC 4.9 Release Series – Changes, New Features, and Fixes
The mudflap run time checker has been removed. The mudflap options remain, but do nothing.
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A New Development for Coverity and Heartbleed
Byte swapping does not necessarily imply the data comes from an external source. For example, when writing graphics code, you sometimes need to do byte swapping if you’re converting between 24-bit RGB and BGR image formats (Windows’ GDI famously uses BGR so this is one place where you need to do such conversions)…
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Transcribing Piano Rolls, the Pythonic Way
In this post I use Fourier transforms to revive a forgotten Gershwin piano piece. Piano rolls are these rolls of perforated paper that you feed to …
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Heartbleed and Static Analysis
The issue with things like Frama-C is that they are by far the easiest to use if you start out a project using them, and you often don’t know which projects you retroactively wished you had done so until they are big and crufty.
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Preventing heartbleed bugs with safe programming languages
The Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL has resulted in a fair amount of damage across the internet. The bug itself was quite simple and is a textbook case for why programming in unsafe languages like C can be problematic. As an experiment to see if a safer systems programming language could have prevented the bug I tried…
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Write Code Every Day
Last fall, work on my coding side projects came to a head: I wasn’t making adequate progress and I couldn’t find a way to get more done without sacrificing my ability to do effective work at Khan Academy .
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Mixins, Forwarding, and Delegation in JavaScript
This essay discusses how to separate JavaScript domain properties from object behaviour, without prototypes . This is deliberate. By examining four basic ways to have one object define the behaviour of other objects, we gain insight into what we’re trying to accomplish at a very basic level.
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Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013?
Yesterday afternoon, Ars Technica published a story reporting two possible logs of Heartbleed attacks occurring in the wild, months before Monday's public disclosure of the vulnerability. It would be very bad news if these stories were true, indicating that blackhats and/or intelligence agencies...
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Programming paradigms that change how you think about coding
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Why Go is elegant and makes my code elegant
This is a enthusiast blog post. I’m not even gonna speak about how concurrency comes easy with Go. Honestly, I’m not good enough to speak about it. I’ll just speak about how using Go in my everyday programming makes me happy.
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Mono and Roslyn
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