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Embrace technical debt
Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Yet, especially in times like these, it’s easy t...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 14,547 posts.
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Follow Hacker News from the Console
Here is something neat that I hacked together – a `top' like Python program called Hacker Top that allows you to follow Hacker News from a UNIX terminal! Hacker News has become the 2nd source for news after programming.reddit for me. I have a couple of ideas for a startup myself and the tips I get from Hacker News...
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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…
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The story of ispc: origins (part 1) (2018)
This one time, at Intel, I wrote a compiler...
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A Square Is Not A Rectangle
The following example, taken from an introductory text in object oriented programming, demonstrates a common flaw in object oriented design. Can you spot it?
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The Configuration Complexity Clock
When I was a young coder, just starting out in the big scary world of enterprise software, an older, far more experienced chap gave me a ste...
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Writing a compiler in Python using Lex, Yacc and LLVM
I found a good post on how to build your own toy compiler using Flex, Bison and LLVM. I saw one disadvantage right in the beginning: you had to use C++. If I w…
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Rails versus Django
Stress free and easy shopping experience. Simple and speedy service.
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100,000 tasklets: Stackless and Go
I made a mistake when first publishing this and used the wrong date. Now that I've fixed it you'll have to go to the correct page to see it.
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Patch to fix RSS feed for News.YC
I’m an avid reader of news.yc , but it’s annoyed me for some time that the RSS feed is rather broken. So, I decided to dust off my Lisp skills and give it a go. The biggest chunk was adding code to do conversion from UNIX timestamps to UTC in Arc. Significant stuff that works now:
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Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone engine code review
For once, developers were able to read the source code of an id software product just a few days after its release. I spent a week in my spare time reading the internal of the Wolfenstein 3D for iPhone engine. It is by far the cleanest and easiest id source code release to date. This review is far from being…
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Making Rails 12X Faster
They told you it can't be done, they told you it has no scale. They told you lies! What if you suddenly had the ability to serve mutliple co...
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Feynman, Challenger Disaster, and Software Engineering
On January 28th, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger was launched at 11:38am on the 6-day STS-51-L mission. During the first 3 seconds of liftoff the o-rings (o-shaped loops used to connect two cylinders
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Why Learning Haskell/Python Makes You a Worse Programmer
A rant about how annoying programming in C# is, really.
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Feature Toggles
Feature Flags can be categorized into several buckets; manage each appropriately. Smart implementation can help constrain complexity.
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In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome (2001)
Time for a pop quiz. 1. Code Reuse is: a) Goodb) Bad 2. Reinventing the Wheel is: a) Goodb) Bad 3. The Not-Invented-Here Syndrome is: a) Goodb) Bad Of course, everybody knows that you should always…
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Clojure: Genetic Mona Lisa problem in 250 beautiful lines
Clojure is surrounded by hype these days. The word on the streets is that Clojure is the Next Big Thing. It has access to the largest libra...
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John Resig on TraceMonkey
I’ve been waiting to blog about this for a long time now. A fantastic new improvement to Mozilla’s JavaScript engine (SpiderMonkey) has landed. Code-named TraceMonkey this engine utilizes a techniques, called trace trees (PDF), which adds just-in-time native code compilation to SpiderMonkey.