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I've recently been exploring the exciting new world of asynchronous I/O libraries in Python 3 – specifically asyncio and curio . These two libraries make some different design choices. This is an essay that I wrote to try to explain to myself what those differences are and why I think they matter, and distill some…
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Definition: The Fibonacci sequence is defined as \(F(0) = 0\), \(F(1) = 1\), and \(F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2)\) for \(n ≥ 2\). So the sequence (starting with \(F(0)\)) is 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ….
Ten rules for writing safety critical code, to facilitate analysis and increase software reliability
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Nano How-To explaining how to setup a root file system with only emacs.
The "design patterns" movement in software claims to have been inspired by the works of architect Christopher Alexander. But an examination of Alexander's books reveals that he was actually talking about something much more interesting.
If you've ever look at the disassembly output for C or C++ code, you'll probably notice that there are a lot of push/pop instructions. And if you pay close enough attention, you'll notice that the compiler prefers to use certain registers over others. In particular, compilers will prefer pushing "old" registers like…
Today we’re very pleased to announce the availability of RStudio Version 1.0! Version 1.0 is our 10th major release since the initial launch in February 2011 (see the full release history below), and our biggest ever! Highlights include:
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
Chrome is always looking for ways to speed up the web. Starting in Chrome 53, Chrome has started using Microsoft’s Profile Guided Optimizat...
WebAssembly or Wasm is a new runtime and compilation target for the web, now available behind a flag in Chrome Canary!
A little confession that I have no idea how asyncio works in Python 3.
Barbara Liskov pointed us in her talk at Heidelberg Laureate Forum to some interesting “must-reads” for computer scientists. The talks will be available here: http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/ . I strongly recommend to watch many talks – including hers.
Updated Oct 27, 2016: Fixed sample code comments in coroutine example as per suggestion , edited text to note D's similar behaviour .
Improve the start-up time of both small and large Java applications, with at most a limited impact on peak performance.
Over the past year, our top priority for Firefox was the Electrolysis project to deliver a multi-process browsing experience to users…
This essay explains how Git works. It assumes you understand Git well enough to use it to version control your projects.
This paper appears in Lisp and Symbolic Computation , Volume 1, No. 1, June 1988, pp81-101.
