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New Lisp-Stat Release
Lisp-Stat Documentation
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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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Randomness extractors: making fair coins out of biased coins
I discuss various models of biased bit sequences, and how to extract uniform random (or close to it) output bit sequences from them, illustrated with Python code.
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English as the new programming language for Apache spark
Discover the English SDK for Apache Spark, making data analytics more accessible with simple English instructions powered by Generative AI.
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Use `nproc` and not grep /proc/cpuinfo
There’s something really quite subtle about how the nproc utility from GNU coreutils works. If you look at the man page, it’s even the very first sentence: Print the number of processin…
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End-User Programming
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
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Magit 2.13 released
Blog of Jonas Bernoulli
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The Hardest Program I've Ever Written (2015)
The hardest program I’ve ever written, once you strip out the whitespace, is 3,835 lines long. That handful of code took me almost a year to write. Granted, that doesn’t take into account the code that didn’t make it. The commit history shows that I deleted 20,704 lines of code over that time. Every surviving line has…
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Python 3 on Google App Engine flexible environment now in beta
Developers running Python on Google App Engine have long asked for support for Python 3 and third-party Python packages. Today we're excited to announce the beta release of the Python runtime on App Engine Flexible Environment with support for Python 3.4 and 2.7. You can now develop applications in the Python version…
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Qt Quick WebGL Streaming
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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Frameworks are for hacks, libraries for seeds
I find that I operate in one of two modes when I’m writing software. I’m either approaching a project as a quick hack or as developing software . As much as anything else, this affects how I approach the project and what kinds of results that I get.
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Church vs. Curry Types
Static vs dynamic typing debates often flounder because the debators see from two different perspectives without knowing it. Learning to identify the two perspectives can calm the discussion. The tension between the two perspectives has led to Gradual Typing and other technologies.
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The Simulated Annealing Algorithm
Simulated annealing is a method for finding a good (not necessarily perfect) solution to an optimization problem. If you're in a situation where you want to maximize or minimize something, your problem can likely be tackled with simulated annealing.
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Microservices - 72 resources
Microservices - everyone talks about them nowadays. There’s no common understanding however what they are. I’ve been researching this topic for a while, gathering and evaluating articles, presentations and conference videos.
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Self hosted C – breakdown
I did it. It wasn't easy, but I did it. My C Compiler can compile itself. Even though it still has holes in functionality and obvious bug...
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Jsc: My New Best Friend
A friend of mine recently pointed me at a well hidden command line tool. In the JavaScript framework used by Safari and other parts of Apple’s products, there is a tool called jsc. It’s a command line interface for JavaScript that uses the same code as the rest of the system. You can find the […]
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Announcing the C++ FAQ
In addition to CppCon announced earlier this week , today the Standard C++ Foundation is pleased to announce a new unified C++ FAQ . The following introduction was written by Herb Sutter.
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Signalfd is useless
UNIX (well, POSIX) signals are probably one of the worst parts of the UNIX API, and that’s a relatively high bar. A signal can be sent to your program at any point when it’s running, and you have to deal with it somehow. Traditionally, there are three ways …
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Building a simple shell in C – Part 3
Implementing the execution functionality of the shell
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On Go, Portability, and System Interfaces
I've been noticing more and more lately that we have a plethora of libraries and programs written for Go, which don't work on one platform o...
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Yet Another Zip Trick
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A circuit-like notation for lambda calculus (2015)
Lately, I’ve been playing around with inventing a visual writing system for lambda calculus.
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Using multi-arch Docker images to support apps on any architecture
How Docker 19.03 makes it simple to build images for most hardware platforms.
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Parsing Protobuf Definitions with Tree-sitter
If you work with Protocol Buffers (protobuf), you can really save time, boredom, and headache by parsing your defin…
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High-Resolution Mandelbrot in Obfuscated Python
Here’s a followup to last month’s post about Penrose Tiling in Obfuscated Python. The Mandelbrot set is a traditional favorite among authors of obfuscated code. You …