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Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than (2011)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Python 3.3.0 released
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Alligator Eggs
In 2007, I met Philip Wadler at a conference, who mentioned to me that he wanted to teach lambda calculus to his eight-year-old children.
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Use Zsh
Zsh is the new hotness. Well newer and hotter than Bash anyway, since the first version of Bash was released in June 1989, while the young and peppy …
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Why I think Rust is the "language of the future" for systems programming
This four-post series on Rust is intended to introduce you to the language, to teach you about Rust's cool language features, and to give a...
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Bret Victor: Learnable Programming
Khan Academy recently launched an online environment for learning to program. It offers a set of tutorials based on the JavaScript and Processing languages, and features a "live coding" environment, where the program's output updates as the programmer types.
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Go Bloviations
This post was written sixteen months ago, when fish briefly explored Go with the intention of writing a new command line shell. ( fish abandoned Go after discovering that terminal programming is what makes shells so horrible, and term programming is least horrible in C.)
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Learning to Learn
I believe the key thing that has helped me to become successful and will continue to do so, is my ability to learn how to learn about a subject and self educate. When you take ownership for the learning process, you start putting knowledge into action.
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Reading Other People's Code
I really enjoy reading other people’s code, it allows you see how others solve common problems, and sometimes even provide parables on what you shouldn’t do with yours. It also teaches the much needed skill of reading other people’s code. Now, ask yourself two questions: 1. how
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Why I’m not leaving Python for Go
First of all, Go seems like a great language. It has an excellent tutorial which I joyfully went through and found: Go is Fast. Concurrent by design. Typed (important for JIT and IDE’s) but n…
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World `countries` – database table for MySQL
So today, I was buzzing around and searching for a `countries` table script that I could use in MySQL database. As you can imagine, it wouldn’t make any sense to add all world countries into …
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Vim Koans
These koans have been independently translated into Chinese (archived) , thanks to Wanzhang Sheng, and into Spanish (archived) , thanks to Daniel Campoverde Carrión.
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Ruby’s magic underscore
I discovered today that Ruby treats underscores a little bit differently when it comes to variable names.
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Parallelogram
Parallelogram is a demo running on the Commodore One extender board, which contains an Altera Cyclone III FPGA and an SDRAM chip. The logic design was made from scratch, including a homebrew CPU, FM synth and blitter with pixel shader support. The demo won the wild compo at Revision 2012 .
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Storm's first birthday
Storm was open-sourced exactly one year ago today. It's been an action-packed year for Storm, to s...
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CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability
I’ve used CoffeeScript for a few months now. Coming from Python, I felt that CoffeeScript was more concise than Javascript, so I decided to use it for a few small projects. Initially, it was a nice experience, but then I gradually realized that, while writing CoffeeScript code was very pleasant, reading it wasn’t so…
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A Tour of the Acme Editor
People I work with recognize my computer easily: it's the one with nothing but yellow windows and blue bars on the screen. That's the text editor acme, written by Rob Pike for Plan 9 in the early 1990s. Acme focuses entirely on the idea of text as user interface. It's difficult to explain acme without seeing it…
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Amazon Maps API
Amazon Developer Portal has the tools and guides for building apps and experiences for Amazon-supported devices and services
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