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SQLite: Infinite loop due to the ‘order by limit’ optimization
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,274 posts.
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Rust Traits Deep Dive, Part 2
Traits Deep Dive, Part 2
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How JPEG actually works (2006)
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Rust and QML: a timely example
A brief recap. The new project Rust Qt Binding Generator can create bindings between Rust code and Qt code. You can use Rust code to power your Qt application. Or in other words, you can use Qt as a cross-platform user interface for your Rust application.
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Our Use of Haskell and Elm
Over the last year, our team has built a beautiful and advanced Smart Cities system using functional languages. I wrote this document to explain our technology choices to stakeholders and partners.
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Bringing Vulkan everywhere
gfx-rs is a project bringing efficient cross-platform graphics to rust. This blog supposedly hosts the major milestones, concepts, and recaps of the project.
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Age of Empires 2 Scenario Editor Is Turing Complete
A blog about computing and other fun.
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Guide to Speech Recognition with Python
An in-depth tutorial on speech recognition with Python. Learn which speech recognition library gives the best results and build a full-featured "Guess The Word" game with it.
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GCC 8 Link Time and Interprocedural Optimization
GCC 8.1 was released and Linux distros are starting to pick it up. This week hit the openSUSE Thumbleweed update with full rebuild (thanks t...
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GCC 8.2 Released
This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 8. You may also want to check out our Porting to GCC 8 page and the full GCC documentation .
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JavaScript Getter-Setter Pyramid
Open Source Freelancer
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LLVM’s garbage collection facilities and SBCL’s generational GC
Intro, overview
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Interactive GPU Programming, Part 2: Hello OpenCL
This is really the same article as Part 1 - Hello CUDA, but with the focus on OpenCL, so I'll skip most of the narration and just show you the code.
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How to deal with dirty side effects in your pure functional JavaScript
If you start learning about functional programming, it won’t be long before you come across the idea of pure functions. And as you go on, you will discover functional programmers appear to be obsessed with them. “Pure functions let you reason about your code,” they say. “Pure functions are less likely to start a…
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“Stateless” sync using version vectors
Isolating cloud sync and persistent storage in an app architecture.
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Recurrent Neural Network Tutorial for Artists (2017)
Recurrent Neural Network Tutorial for Artists
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Software sucks
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gRPC-Go Engineering Practices
It’s the start of the new year, and almost the end of my first full year on the gRPC-Go project, so I’d like to take this opportunity to provide an update on the state of gRPC-Go development and give some visibility into how we manage the project. For me, personally, this is the first open source project to which I’ve…
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Writing a recursive ascent parser by hand
I’ve been exploring various ways to write parsers. For a long time, I’ve used hand-written recursive descent for its straightforwardness, flexibility, and performance. There is another way—parser generators like Menhir , LALRPOP , or the venerable Bison use the bottom-up LR algorithm .
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Jim Tcl version 0.78
Tap, Click, Launch
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Ruby’s Rack Push: Decoupling the real-time web application from the web
(UPDATED: updated to the PR are now reflected in the post) Something exciting is coming. Everyone is talking about WebSockets and their older cousin EventSource / Server Sent Events (SSE). Faye and…
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Typesafe Neural Networks in Haskell with Dependent Types
It seems these days like programming with dependent types in Haskell (and its advantages) is moving slowly but steadily to the mainstream of Haskell programming. In the current state of Haskell education, dependent types are often considered topics for “advanced” Haskell users. However, I can foresee a day where the…
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Building a Distributed Log from Scratch: Sketching a New System
In part four of this series we looked at some key trade-offs involved with a distributed log implementation and discussed a few lessons learned while building NATS Streaming. In this fifth and final installment, we’ll conclude by outlining the design for a new log-based system that draws from the previous entries in…
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Why Rust closures are somewhat hard
My Rustic Ramblings