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The right way to turn off your old APIs
All things come to an end, even HTTP APIs. However great your API may be today, one day you'll want to release a completely new version, an improved but...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 7,294 posts.
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No Copyrights on APIs: Help Us Make The Case
Earlier this year, we applauded District Court Judge Alsup for getting it right and holding that, as a matter of law, one could not copyright APIs. The case, Oracle v. Google, is now on appeal to the Federal Circuit, where a three-judge panel is going to revisit Judge Alsup’s ruling.We’ve explained...
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A look at LLVM: comparing clamp implementations
Please note that this is not an endorsement or criticism of either of these languages. It’s simply something I found interesting with how LLVM handles code generation between the two. This is an implementation quirk, not a language issue. Update (April 9, 2021): A bug report was filed and a fix was pushed! The LLVM…
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The Making of Gyroscope Running, a React Native App
The making of our first React Native iPhone app
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Writing, technically
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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Notes on Programming in C – Rob Pike (1989)
What follows is a set of short essays that collectively encourage a philosophy of clarity in programming rather than giving hard rules. I don't expect you to agree with all of them, because they are opinion and opinions change with the times. But they've been accumulating in my head, if not on paper until now, for a…
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My five-year experiment with UTC
Transform Your Time Management Forever! Discover how switching to UTC eliminated time zone confusion, boosted productivity, and simplified global scheduling for remote work.
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We put half a million files in one Git repository (2022)
Using a monorepo causes a lot of performance challenges for git. Here's how we solve them at Canva.
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WASI 0.2.0 and Why It Matters
With the release of WASI Preview 2, we take a step back and look at why it matters for wasmCloud and the WebAssembly ecosystem.
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Revisiting the design approach to Zig
Zig is a general-purpose programming language that can act as a drop-in replacement for C / C++, letting you incrementally improve your code base.
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Landing a new syscall, part 1: What is futex?
A deep dive into the futex system call and how it is used to process synchronization functions.
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Hey Siri: An On-Device DNN-Powered Voice Trigger for Apple’s Personal Assistant
The “Hey Siri” feature allows users to invoke Siri hands-free. A very small speech recognizer runs all the time and listens for just those…
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The future of .NET Standard
Since .NET 5 was announced, many of you have asked what this means for .NET Standard and whether it will still be relevant. In this post, I'm going to explain how .NET 5 improves code sharing and replaces .NET Standard. I'll also cover the cases where you still need .NET Standard.
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Postgres sequences can skip 32 unexpectedly
The other day, we started getting strange reports from some customers of incident.io. Their incident identifiers — unique numbers to identify each incident — appeared to have jumped unexpectedly.
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Why OCaml? [video]
Here’s a post from a talk I gave this last summer during our internship program about why we use OCaml. It spends a lot of time on how OCaml fits into the space of programming language designs, and why we think OCaml is in a real sweet spot in that design space, especially for the kind of work we do at Jane Street.
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Deno 1.13 Release
Deno 1.13 stabilizes the native HTTP server, and introduces FFI, a streaming WebSocket API, the new self.structuredClone() function and more.
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Xmonad 0.10 was released
This page is for keeping a record of significant changes in darcs xmonad and xmonad-contrib since the 0.9 releases. See darcs changes in the source repositories for the patches and more details covering documentation and bug fixes not noted here. Xmonad 0.9 was released on 26 October 2009, and Xmonad 0.10 on 18…
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Qualcomm Linux 2.0
Unified code base. Upstream first. No fork. SoC agnostic. Learn how you can build with Qualcomm Linux 2.0
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A Practical Introduction to Container Terminology
It is deceptively simple to get started with Linux Containers, but how well do you really understand the underlying technology? Could you explain the architectural trade offs of container hosts
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Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines
LocalAI is the open source AI engine. Run any model, LLMs, vision, voice, image and video, on any hardware. No GPU required.
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Fyrox Game Engine 0.29
Fyrox 0.29 added new animation editor, reworked animation system and lots of smaller improvements.