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Steve Jobs just ruined the iPhone for Clojure
Recently Apple released new terms of service with their iPhone OS. By now most of you have seen the following section. I've copied this f...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,844 posts.
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PyPy 1.2 Released
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Amazing feats of Clang Error Recovery
In addition to parsing and generating machine code for your source files when valid, a compiler frontend's job is also to detect invalid code and give you a hint that explains what is wrong so you can fix the problem.
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Google officially announces OAuth support for IMAP/SMTP Gmail
Google has long believed that users should be able to export their data and use it with whichever service they choose. For years, the Gmail ...
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A Summary of "Joel on Software"
This is a summary for the blog by Joel Spolsky, Joel on Software , volume 2000. The summary for the years 2000-2010 can be found on the Joel...
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Ask HN: How do you solve hard problems if you can't make incremental progress?
Ron Jeffries attempts to create a sudoku solver - here , here , here , here and here . (You really ought to read these articles. They are u...
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Tabs versus Spaces
The last time the tabs-versus-spaces argument flared up in my presence, I wrote this. Gasoline for the fire? Maybe.
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Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?
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"HTML5" versus Flash: Animation Benchmarking
The Man in Blue showcases the writing and Web design of Cameron Adams.
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Why writing software is not like engineering
While my talent lies in software, my graduate studies were in computer engineering (designing and building digital computers). One observation always struck me: computer engineering seemed more straightforward than computer science (building software). There are a set of engineering design rules to follow and…
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Why is JSON so popular? Developers want out of the syntax business
There is a reason why JSON is becoming very popular as a data exchange format (more important than it being less verbose than XML): programmers are sick of writing parsers! But “wait”, …
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Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby
A while ago Jeff and I had Eric Sink on the Stack Overflow Podcast, and we were yammering on about version control, especially the trendy new distributed version control systems, like Mercurial and…
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Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
I love working in the shell. Mastery of shell lets you get things done in seconds, rather than minutes or hours, if you chose to write a program instead. In this article I'd like to explain the top one-liners from the commandlinefu.com. It's a user-driven website where people get to choose the best and most useful...
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Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems
There are so many NoSQL systems these days that it's hard to get a quick overview of the major trade-offs involved when evaluating relational and non-relational systems in non-single-server...
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Regular Expression Matching in the Wild
The first two articles in this series, “ Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast ” and “ Regular Expression Matching: the Virtual Machine Approach ,” introduced the foundation of DFA-based and NFA-based regular expression matching. Both were based on toy implementations optimized for teaching the basic…