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Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)
I plan on writing about why I am interested in the Lisp family of languages. It will probably come out in stages.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,842 posts.
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Programming a space invader in OCaml and OpenGL: lessons learned
After a first experience with ReasonML, I wanted to check if its parent language, OCaml, was also that good. It took me an entire game to form a clear opinion.
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Go Bloviations
This post was written sixteen months ago, when fish briefly explored Go with the intention of writing a new command line shell. ( fish abandoned Go after discovering that terminal programming is what makes shells so horrible, and term programming is least horrible in C.)
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My Favorite Programming Problem to Teach: Digit Length
A function to return the number of digits in an input (natural) number provides many learning opportunities for a new programmer
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Conventions for Command Line Options
This article was discussed on Hacker News and critiqued on Wandering Thoughts ( 2 , 3 ).
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When optimising code, never guess, always measure
This page has been Tagged As Software This is a truism that lots of people quote, but it can be hard to remember, especially in the heat of battle (as it were). Rather fortunately it came to mind just when needed, as I found something completely unexpected.
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A guide to better embedded C++
Disclaimer: this, by no means, is not a definitive description of the whole embedded-specific development. This is just a small good practice about interaction with hardware.
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My views on NeoHaskell
A rundown and critique of the NeoHaskell project
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Copying objects in JavaScript
In this article we will look at the various ways an object can be copied in Javascript. We will take a look at both shallow and deep copying. While shallow copying is rather straightforward, deep copying is more tricky. Currently, there is a HTML5 specification for a deep copy algorithm but it is not publically…
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A tail calling interpreter for Python (already landed in CPython)
It’s been nearly four years since I published Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/s: HowI Learned To Love Tail Calls inC.In that article, I presented a technique I co-d...
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Writing C for Curl
It is a somewhat common question to me: how do we write C in curl to make it safe and secure for billions of installations? Some precautions we take and decisions we make. There is no silver bullet, just guidelines. As I think you can see for yourself below they are also neither strange nor … Continue reading Writing…
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What Java Modules Are About
When the subject of Java modules comes up in online discussions every so often, I get the sense that many people misunderstand what it is that modules are supposed to do. That's understandable, as the name 'modules' does not evoke the precise purpose of the feature. There are many kinds of modules, even in the Java…
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Thoughts on macOS Package Managers
Saagar Jha's website.
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Why I am switching to promises
I'm switching my node code from callbacks to promises. The reasons aren't merely aesthetical, they're rather practical:
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Mea culpa: How developers fix their own simple bugs differently from other devs
This paper from Zhu and Godfrey looks at single-statement bug fixes in Java code: more specifically, at the differences between how bug are fixed by the people who created them and how they are fixed by other people. The authors found that people fix their own bugs more quickly than other people's, which falls under…
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Quirks, Caveats, and Gotchas in SQLite
The SQL language is a "standard". Even so, no two SQL database engines work exactly alike. Every SQL implementation has its own peculiarities and oddities, and SQLite is no exception to this rule.
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Metaprogramming is less fun in D
Despite the speaker’s calm voice and the slides showing almost nothing but code in C++ (which isn’t what you’d normally expect from a keynote), Louis Dionne’...
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Git log is not a changelog
When you maintain a project, publishing new releases can quickly become a chore, so naturally one tries to automate it as much as possible.
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Moving from Native Apps to Progressive Web Apps
From now on, I won’t be building any more native apps. All my apps going forward will be progressive web apps. Progressive web apps are web…
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Android vs iOS: A Developer's Perspective
Since its inception, Whereoscope has been an iPhone-only shop. The genesis of this iPhone-fetishism goes all the way back to the very first iPhone: in a way, it was the potential that device tantal…
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You only get 1,000 lines of code a week
Choose to do only the things that nobody else can do.
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Rare Greek Variables
I scrape Arxiv to find underused Greek variables which can add some diversity to math; the top 10 underused letters are ϰ, ς, υ, ϖ, Υ, Ξ, ι, ϱ, ϑ, & Π. Avoid overused letters like λ, and spice up your next paper with some memorable variables!
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Firewalling your code
When writing code, you can call any function as long as it’s public, and similarly, you can access any object’s public properties or methods. Usually, access to code is all or none – a piece of code can be either public or private. Lately, I’ve been thinking about ways to implement more fine-grained access controls…
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Modern C
This new edition has been the occasion to overhaul the presentation in many places, but its main purpose is the update to the new C standard, C23 . The goal was to publish this new edition of Modern C at the same time as the new C standard goes through the procedure of ISO publication. The closest approximation of the…
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There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random() (2015)
V8’s Math.random implementation now uses an algorithm called xorshift128+, improving the randomness compared to the old MWC1616 implementation.