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Much ado about iOS app architecture
· architecture · viper · mvvm · redux · mvc · pattern · Nov 5, 2017 by Aleksandar Vacić 6 minute read
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A DoS Attack Against the C# Compiler
Generics in C# are certainly very useful and I find it amazing that we almost didn’t get them:
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Redis Streams and the Unified Log
Building a log-based architecture that’s fast, efficient, and resilient on the new stream data structure in Redis.
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Learning Go by porting a medium-sized web back end from Python
How I learnt the basics of Go (its good parts as well as a few quirks) by porting a medium-sized web backend from Python.
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Firefox Quantum
Next week, Mozilla will release Firefox 57. Also referred to as Firefox Quantum, from the project name we've used for all the work that has been put into making this the most awesome Firefox release ever. This is underscored by the fact that I've gotten mailed release-swag for the first time during my four years ……
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TensorFlow r1.4
TensorFlow release 1.4 is now public - and this is a big one! So we're happy to announce a number of new and exciting features we hope everyone will enjoy.
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Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-orientation (2014)
This has been a long time coming. I had meant to write this post around the New Year, before the wave of death of Ruby stuff and before DHH’s “ TDD is dead ” ruckus:
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Lessons from migrating a large codebase to React 16
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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What it means to be a Postgres extension
Because Citus is an extension to PostgreSQL and not a fork, the effort required to remain compatible with the latest versions of the open source PostgreSQL database has been dramatically reduced. After a new PostgreSQL version is released, Citus packages are often updated and in sync within days.
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Self-Replicating Functions
These are notes I’m creating for myself as I explore functions \(f\) that can be written as a sum \(f = g_1 + g_2\) where \(g_1\) and \(g_2\) are shifted and possibly reflected versions of each other, both strongly resembling the original function \(f\) . When a function \(f\) has these properties, I informally call…
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How to Build Your Own Blockchain Part 3 – Writing Nodes That Mine and Talk
Jack Schultz's blog.
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Render Multimedia in Pure C
In a previous article I demonstrated video filtering with C and a unix pipeline . Thanks to the ubiquitous support for the ridiculously simple Netpbm formats — specifically the “Portable PixMap” ( .ppm , P6 ) binary format — it’s trivial to parse and produce image data in any language without image libraries. Video…
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Profiling Go
Techniques and tools for profiling Go applications including pprof, benchmarks, and memory management analysis.
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Command line interfaces are reified UIs
Many of the advantages of Command Line Interfaces can be attributed to the fact that they reify the user interaction: the interaction itself is made into som...
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Connecting to Google Sheets with Python
I wrote up my experience using Python to process data from a shared Google Sheets spreadsheet
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MySQL vs. MariaDB: Reality Check
Choosing between MariaDB and MySQL? In this blog, we provide an overview of the key differences between MariaDB vs. MySQL and explore their unique use cases.
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Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)
I've used Linux containers directly and indirectly for years, but I wanted to become more familiar with them. So I wrote some code. This used to be 500 lines of code, I swear, but I've revised it some since publishing; I've ended up with about 70 lines more.
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A Minimalist Guide to SQLite
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...