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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 141 posts.
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Python as an Alternative to Lisp or Java, Peter Norvig revisited
Josiah Carlson talks about Redis, Python, and other technology topics.
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An Open Letter to JavaScript Leaders Regarding Semicolons
Writing and Stuff from Isaac Z. Schlueter
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A crazy Ruby quine: a spinning globe.
RubyConf に参加するためには、やっぱり 山手 quine みたいに東京限定ネタは通じにくいですよね。これからは Quine もグローバルでないといけないと感じました。 でも世界的に有名な環状線とか知らないので、世界的に有名な回るものを書いてみました。 v=0000;eval$s=%q~d=%!^Lcf<LK8, _@7gj*LJ=c5nM)Tp1g0%Xv.,S[<>YoP 4ZojjV)O>qIH1/n[|2yE[>:ieC "%.#% :::##" 97N-A&Kj_K_><wS5rtWk@*a+Y5 yH?b[F^e7C/56j|pmRe+:)B "##% ::#########…
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It's about time to start fighting against the Rails “magic” myth
When I first got into Ruby and Rails development, I was impressed about how everything worked. A few lines of code and so much got done. At that time, if I was reading a book or blog post that said: "just do X and Y will automagically work". I would gladly accept those instructions. However, after a while,
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Yacc is dead: An update
The draft of " Yacc is Dead " that David Darais and I posted on arXiv received some attention, so we'd like to share updates and feedback.
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Peter Seebach: How I learned C
I would like to thank Greg Bacon for saving this article, and converting it to HTML. I didn't have any saved copies of this, and thought I'd lost it.
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Chromium Blog: A New Crankshaft for V8
Today we are introducing Crankshaft, a new compilation infrastructure for V8, Google Chrome’s JavaScript engine. By using aggressive optimi...
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Haskell Researchers Announce Discovery of Industry Programmer Who Gives a Shit
Oh, Steve, you do make me laugh, always. And it's so long between posts these days I hardly believed it when Safari hinted that there was some action over at Steve's. Thank you.
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Ruby 2.0 Refinements in Practice
First Shugo announced them at RubyKaigi. Then Matz showed some improved syntax at RubyConf. But what are refinements [http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4085] all about, and what would they be used for? The first thing you need to understand is that the purpose of refinements in Ruby
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Lisp compiler in 89 lines of Python
Tim Lopez published an elegant and tiny LISP interpreter for Python on his blog. Inspired by Norvig’s Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. I developed an interpreter as well as a…
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Lisp interpreter in 90 lines of C++
I've enjoyed reading Peter Norvig's recent articles on Lisp. He implements a Scheme interpreter in 90 lines of Python in the first , and dev...
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PyPy 1.4: Ouroboros in practice
We're pleased to announce the 1.4 release of PyPy. This is a major breakthrough in our long journey, as PyPy 1.4 is the first PyPy release t...
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Armin Ronacher: Collections in C
Using the C preprocessor to achive basic generic collection types.
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The Python IAQ: Infrequently Answered Questions
A question is infrequently answered either because few people know the answer or because it concerns an obscure, subtle point (but a point that may be crucial to you). I thought I had invented the term for my Java IAQ , but it also shows up at the very informative About.com Urban Legends site. There are lots of Python…
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Modern Perl, the book, is Available.
After countless commits, the generosity of dozens of proofreaders, and far too long proofreading the index, Modern Perl: the book is available! You can buy a lovely print version from any well-stocked online vendor (and you're more than welcome to...
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Why are we limited to JS in browsers - would a bytecode standard help?
robhu has a good point over here . At the moment we write Javascript in web pages, which is then compiled down by the various JIT methods that Firefox/IE/Webkit use to make it super fast. Seeing as what's run clearly isn't the actual JS itself, but bytecode, why not have a standardised bytecode…
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Go (lang): one year ago today
Happy 1st birthday, Go!