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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,031 posts.
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Why I Love Haskell: An Example
In this post I'm going to talk about a small Haskell implementation I wrote which would have been much more difficult to write in other lang...
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GC and Rust Part 1: Specifying the Problem
This is the first in a series of posts will discuss why garbage collection is hard, especially for Rust, and brainstorm about solutions to the …
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Errors are values
Idioms and patterns for handling errors in Go.
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Programmer proverbs
To be a programmer is to learn relentlessly. A short and deep collection of advices.
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Python List Comprehensions Explained Visually
Sometimes a programming design pattern becomes common enough to warrant its own special syntax. Python’s list comprehensions are a prime example...
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Introducing DataFrames in Spark for Large Scale Data Science
Introducing Apache Spark's DataFrame API for easier, efficient big data processing and data science applications.
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Good Practices for Writing Rust Libraries
For a bit more than a year now, I've been interested in Rust , a programming language by Mozilla research that “runs blazingly fast, prevents nearly all segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.” It is as low-level as C or C++, has a nice type system (with generics and traits), a helpful compiler, and a…
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New ELF Linker from the LLVM Project
We have been working hard for a few months now to rewrite the ELF support in lld, the LLVM linker. We are happy to announce that it has reached a significant milestone: it is now able to bootstrap LLVM, Clang, and itself and pass all tests on x86-64 Linux and FreeBSD with the speed expected of an LLVM project.
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Playing Fasttracker2 .XM files in JavaScript
Hit the play button above and it will play music; specifically, music composed with (or at least, compatible with) a program released in 1994 called FastTracker 2; this is a Javascript homage I wrote in a fit of nostalgia. The source code is on GitHub if you'd like to check it out.
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Introduction to Microservices
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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Quasi-Polynomial Algorithm for Graph Isomorphism
Update (Dec. 14): The long wait is over! Here’s Laci’s paper on the arXiv. So far, I’ve read it only deeply enough to note that it contains the following sentence: A group G ≤ S…
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Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Go
My colleague Loren Segal shared the blog post below. As you can see, he’s really excited about the new AWS SDK for Go! — Jeff; Today we are announcing the first Developer Preview Release of the AWS SDK for Go (v0.6.0). If you have not been following along with development, the AWS SDK for Go […]
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32-bit x86 Position Independent Code – It's That Bad
Let's start by looking at a simple C function to be compiled as position-independent code (i.e. -fPIC , for use in a shared library):
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Implement a programming language from scratch
Implementing a programming language is an experience no programmer should go without; the process fosters a deep understanding of computation, and it's fun!
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AWS CodeCommit
We announced AWS CodeCommit last November (see New AWS Tools for Code Management and Deployment) at AWS re:Invent. I am happy to announce that it is now generally available and that you can start using it today. Let’s do a quick refresh on the CodeCommit feature set before taking the service for a spin. CodeCommit […]
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A brief introduction to OCaml
A couple of weeks ago I did an introductory presentation on OCaml at our local meetup groups @GotLambda . The material is in the form of one long interactive session, in a style similar to learnxinyminutes.com .
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Conspire: A Programming Environment for NOWHERE
It's time for another NOWHERE tech write-up. I've been tweeting about my work on Twitter up to the point where I was nudged to write a long...
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Low-level web programming in Racket and a wiki in 500 lines
Racket provides a simple yet flexible web framework for serving dynamic web content.
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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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