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Is RightJS really faster than jQuery?
My journey of mastering procrastination has led me to an interesting article on Hacker News today:
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 21,844 posts.
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A single line assignment filled with epic fail
Today I've been working with a piece of third-party software. I was having big problems getting it working and decided to delve into its ...
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Why Rust for safe systems programming
In this series , we have explored the need for proactive measures to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities and walked through some examples of memory safety issues we’ve found in Microsoft code that could have been avoided with a different language. Now we’ll peek at why we think that Rust represents the best…
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Why Create a New Unix Shell?
This post explains the project's motivation from several perspectives. Unix shell is an old and successful technology, so there are many ways of looking at it.
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Snowflake Server
a bliki entry for Snowflake Server
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The Most Unusual (and Best) Computer Language Book I've Ever Seen.
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, from Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby by _why the lucky stiff. CC BY-SA 2.5.
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The empirical evidence that types affect productivity and correctness
There are some pretty strong statements about types floating around out there. The claims range from the oft-repeated phrase that when you get the types to line up, everything just works, to “not relying on type safety is unethical (if you have an SLA)” 1 , " It boils down to cost vs benefit, actual studies, and…
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Making Nested Parens with My Homeboy, Donald Knuth
Your life is the best story! Just start your blog today!
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Programming
I've actually written code lately, although for some reason it's been all these stupid projects. First I needed to fix the kernel tty refco...
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GNU Emacs Video Editing
Independent xxxxx research organisation examines the software real, life and live coding, autodestructive strategy and crash-falsified revelation
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Critical Django security updates released (0day, exploit in the wild)
Posted by James Bennett on Oct. 9, 2009
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Functional Geometry
Peter Henderson wrote an article about a method to describe pictures with functional programs. I've implemented it in Lisp. An updated version of the article uses curves and different shapes and has some references to other applications for this method, like "An Algebra of Music".
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Python + Hadoop = Dumbo
As a research intern here at Last.fm, dealing with huge datasets has become my daily bread. Having a herd of yellow elephants at my disposal makes this a lot easier, but the conventional way of writing Hadoop programs can be rather cumbersome. It generally involves lots of typing, compiling, building, and moving files…
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Steve Yegge: Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp. (2006)
Another enjoyable read. Thanks! One thing, though -- it's about time to update your understandings of Python's object system. Python's culture doesn't insist that traditional (Smalltalkish) OO is the One True Way to re-use code, but that doesn't mean that everything in Python is not an object (because they are, since…
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GWT 2.0: So good it's ridiculous
GWT 2.0 was released today, and even though I've been using it for months and contributing to it, I didn't realize the significance of this ...
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Did You Know: BeautifulSoup's bits are rotting
The parser in version 3.1.0 of Beautiful Soup did significantly worse on real-world HTML than version 3.0.8 did. The most common problems were the incorrect handling of <script> tags, "malformed start tag" errors, and "bad end tag" errors.
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Threaded Code (1999)
What is threaded code? What is it good for? What are the differences between the various threading techniques? How do I implement threaded code portably? How fast are various threading techniques?
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Scheme Is Love
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The Pragmatic Programmers release an online magazine
Plus: Welcome to PragPub, Up Front, Choice Bits, How Do We…?, Swaine’s World, The Quiz, Shady Illuminations, Calendar. See below for more.
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About HTML semantics and front-end architecture
A critical look the term 'semantic HTML' and the limitations it has created for web engineers
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Don't Learn C the Wrong Way
Update : On Sep. 28, 2015, Zed Shaw wrote a rebuttal to this post. You can find the details here .