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Python 2.7.4 Released
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Assembly Routine for Realtime Decoding of Floppy Data
The little routine presented here is, with all due humbleness, hands down the best code I ever wrote. It is esoteric and might not appeal to the masses, and it certainly has no commercial value. But in terms of personal satisfaction at a job well done, this is about as good as it gets. Here's why:
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Performance of Rust and Dart in Sudoku Solving
Introduction About two years ago I evaluated the performance of ~20 compilers and interpreters on sudoku solving, matrix multiplication, pattern matching and dictionary operations. Two years later,…
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My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie
SecurityTube.net Hack of the Day2013258 points138 commentscited by 3Life, Learning & Writing details
One of the first things I do every morning is check the Twitter chatter about my website ( @SecurityTube ) . I was pleasantly surprised to ...
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Firefox Nightly Gets New Baseline JIT Compiler
This wednesday we landed the baseline compiler on Firefox nightly. After six months of work from start to finish, we are finally able to merge ...
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Introduction to x64 Assembly
Access technologies that use data for modern code, machine learning, big data, analytics, networking, storage, servers, cloud, and more.
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List out of Lambda
If you ignore the practical issues of computers like size, weight, cost, heat, and so on, what do you really need in a programming language? Let's play around with this question.
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Asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target
Like many developers I’ve been excited by the promise of Asm.js . Reading the recent news that Asm.js is now in Firefox nightly is what got my interest going. There’s also been a massive surge in interest after Mozilla and Epic announced ( mirror ) that they had ported Unreal Engine 3 to Asm.js – and that it ran…
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Principles of Software Engineering, Part 1
This is the first in a series of posts on the principles of software engineering. There's far more...
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Explicit vs. Clever
“Proud to say I work with a team of developers who value explicit code over clever code”– Michael R. Bernstein
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Analyzing mbostock's queue.js
Bryan Summersett's home page.
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Building Photoshop 1.0
On February 13, 2013, the Computer History Museum reported that they had received the source code for version 1.1 of Photoshop from Adobe, and had permission to release it for non-commercial use. This is the second time recently that something like this has happened, the first being the release of the Quickdraw and…
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Callbacks are imperative, promises are functional
You will often hear it said that JavaScript is a ‘functional’ programming language. It is described as such simply because functions are first-class values: many other features that define functional programming – immutable data, preference for recursion over looping, algebraic type systems, avoidance of side effects…
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Zsh-lovers – tips, tricks and examples for the Z shell
Whenever we look at the zsh manual we wonder why there are no examples or those simply things in (shell) life. The zsh contains many features, but there was no manpage with some examples (like procmailex(5)). That’s why we wrote this manpage.
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Django 1.5.1 released
Posted by Jacob Kaplan-Moss on March 28, 2013
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Web Framework Benchmarks
Round 1 of the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks Project!
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Everything about Java 8
A comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8.
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