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A few words on Doug Engelbart
Doug Engelbart died today. His work has always been very difficult for writers to interpret and explain.
RethinkDB 1.7: hot backup, atomic set/get, 10x insert performance improvement
Etienne Laurin ( @atnnn ), an engineer at RethinkDB, introduces these new features in this one-minute video:
Your test suite is trying to tell you something
A few weeks ago I started wondering about 'the test that occasionally and randomly breaks' in a large test suite at my job. The test, calle...
Erlang at Basho, Five Years Later
Justin Sheehy discusses whether or not Riak would choose Erlang today.
Python Tools for Visual Studio
I've talked some about the sweet support for node and PHP in Azure. You can ...
Harlan, new Lispy language for GPU programming
I am happy to announce that after about two years of work, I have made the code for Harlan available to the public. https://github.com/eholk/harlan Harlan is a …
Anatomy of a Compiler Bug
Some people have a favorite color or a favorite food. It may come as no surprise that I have a favorite compiler bug. Today, I'm going to demonstrate it and pick it apart, a topic suggested by reader Daniel Jalkut.
A surprising JavaScript memory leak found at Meteor
This week, my teammates at Meteor tracked down a surprising JavaScript memory leak . I searched the web for variations on javascript closure memory leak and came up with nothing relevant, so maybe this is a relatively unknown issue. (Most of what you find for that query talks about the bad garbage collection algorithm…
Django 1.6 beta 1 released
Posted by Jacob Kaplan-Moss on June 28, 2013
Sublime Text 3 Public Beta
Build 3047 is now available to both registered users and the general public. Build 3047 is the fastest, most stable, most polished version of Sublime Text yet.
Using Nginx and UWSGI
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Cap'n Proto beta release 0.1 is ready for Real Work
Moved to: https://capnproto.org/news/2013-06-27-capn-proto-beta-release.html (GitHub Pages doesn't support 301 redirects :(.)
Introducing the Go Race Detector
How and why to use the Go race detector to improve your programs.
The Ruby on Rails Tutorial for Rails 4.0 final
News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)
From zero to cooperative threads in 33 lines of Haskell
A tiny implementation of coroutines