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OCaml on iOS 7 Released
Pansophical reader, with your bafflingly good mobile OCaml project, I’m ready at last to release an OCaml compiler for iOS 7. It works for all my projects, and I hope it works for yours.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,843 posts.
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Google officially announces OAuth support for IMAP/SMTP Gmail
Google has long believed that users should be able to export their data and use it with whichever service they choose. For years, the Gmail ...
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A New Back End for Cranelift: Instruction Selection
This post is the first in a three-part series about my recent work on Cranelift as part of my day job at Mozilla. In this first post, I will set some context and describe the instruction selection problem. In particular, I'll talk about a revamp to the instruction selector and backend framework in general that we've…
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A resizable concurrent map
In an earlier post, I showed how to implement the “world’s simplest lock-free hash table” in C++. It was so simple that you couldn’t even delete entries or …
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Dynamic Programming in Python: Bayesian Blocks (2012)
Of all the programming styles I have learned, dynamic programming is perhaps the most beautiful. It can take problems that, at first glance, look ugly and intractable, and solve the problem with clean, concise code. Where a simplistic algorithm might accomplish something by brute force, dynamic programming steps back…
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Growing a Networked Garden with Spritely Goblins
UPDATE Feb 17, 2023: David Thompson presented a walk-trough about how he implemented the Networked Garden game at DecentSocial 2023
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NumPy on PyPy progress report
Hello. A lot of things happened in March, like pycon . I was also busy doing other things (pictured), so apologies for the late numpy statu...
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The Common Lisp Cookbook – LispWorks Review
A collection of examples of how to use Common Lisp
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Using Broadway in an Elixir application
Discover how Broadway can help you create highly concurrent data processing pipelines in your Elixir app.
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Numbering should start at zero (1982)
To denote the subsequence of natural numbers 2, 3, ..., 12 without the pernicious three dots, four conventions are open to us
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How to Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML (2005)
“There’s just no nice way to say this: Anyone who can’t make a syndication feed that’s well-formed XML is an incompetent fool.——Maybe this is unkind and elitist of me, but I think that anyone who either can’t or won’t implement these measures is, as noted above, a bozo.” – Tim Bray , co-editor of the XML 1.0…
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Do Not Log
Almost every week I accidentally get into this logging argument. Here’s the problem: people tend to log different things and call it a best-practice. And I a...
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Fixing Unix Filenames (2012)
This article will try to convince you that adding some limitations on legal Unix/Linux/POSIX filenames would be an improvement. Many programs already presume these limitations, the POSIX standard already permits such limitations, and many Unix/Linux filesystems already embed such limitations so it'd be better to make…
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On Two Views of Computation in Computer Science
Abstract: Machine and language models of computation differ so greatly in the computational complexity properties of their representation that they form two distinct classes that cannot be directly…
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Garbage Collectors Are Scary
Garbage collectors are expected to be invisible: if programmers (or even users) notice them, something is wrong. Usually, such problems are are performance problems, but there could be correctness issues as well. This makes implementing them a bit scary.
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Ruby adds experimental support for rightward assignments
Previously ruby used to support only Rvalue to be assigned to Lvalue. Now, it adds support for Rightward assignment
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Why don't schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamentals?
If you find this piece worthwhile, consider the Go Fund Me that’s funding ongoing cancer care. A story from Dan Luu, from back when he “TA’ed EE 202, a second year class on signals and systems at P…
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Retiring a favourite C++ joke
I have a favourite joke when teaching new and delete in C++. Alas, I believe that attendees are now less likely to have seen the show it references. Therefore, I present it here for your enjoyment (or not).
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Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)
You might find the title a little bit odd. Hold your thought for a moment and hear me out. I'm a big believer that in technology, and life, something that…
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Cut the Cutesy Errors
If your app has just ruined my day, I need help, not humour.
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The Documentation Triangle, or, why code isn't self documenting
These statements can be hard to argue against, especially if they come from someone who is more experienced than you. A lot of the trouble is that they are not wrong – well, they’re not completely wrong.
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Scaling Rust Builds with Bazel
Why DFINITY builds Rust with Bazel.