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Emscripten (LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler) 1.0
It's been almost a year since I started Emscripten (which, if you haven't heard of it, is a tool to compile LLVM to JavaScript), during whic...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 679 posts.
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(1) Keep it simple, (2) make it something you'd actually use, (3) iterate.
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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The most stupid C bug ever
I have been programming for a number of years already. I have seen others introduce bugs, and I have also introduced (and solved!) many bugs while coding. Off-by-one, buffer-overflow, treating pointers as pointees, different behaviors or the same function (this is specially true for cross-platform applications), race…
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A Stack Overflow user's reply to Experts Exchange blogpost
This is in response to this blog post made at Experts Exchange. Whilst I agree on a few of the points you have made, as a user and a promot...
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WSGI and the Pluggable Pipe Dream
Why WSGI is not as big of a problem as you would believe and why framework independent pluggable applications don’t work in practice.
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LLVM 3.0 Type System Rewrite
One of the most pervasive IR (and thus compiler API) changes in LLVM 3.0 was a complete reimplementation of the LLVM IR type system. This change was long overdue (the original type system lasted from LLVM 1.
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A Python Optimization Anecdote
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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GNU Compiler Collection 4.6.0 released with Go programming language support
The GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the release of GCC 4.6.4.
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Kay on the Meaning of "Object-Oriented Programming"
Dr. Alan Kay explains when "object-oriented" was first used and what it means. []
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SQLAlchemy and You
The Django ORM feels so much easier than SQLAlchemy? Maybe this article can change your perception.
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Objective-C Blocks vs. C++0x Lambdas: Fight
Blocks are perhaps the most significant new language feature introduced by Apple in years, and I've written a lot about them before. The new C++ standard, C++0x, introduces lambdas, a similar feature. Today, I want to discuss the two features and how they are alike and how they differ, a topic suggested by David…
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JavaScript Trie Performance Analysis
After my last post discussing dictionary lookups in JavaScript the unanimous consensus seemed to be that utilizing Trie would result in additional space savings and yield performance benefits.
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The Python Paradox is now the Scala Paradox
Paul Graham has written a bunch of good essays on entrepreneurship, laying down much of the philosophy behind Y Combinator . If you’ve not read any of them yet, you should go and read them now – they contain lots of wisdom.
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