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Recently I was trying some statistics on the qtbase-module (where QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets and so on lives) and was wondering who made them. Not based on their current paid affilation, like Thiago’s graphs , but if each commit was made by a person coming from KDE.
A recipe for a functional app, part 2
If, like me, you've been frustrated with the status quo in systems languages, this article will give you a taste of why Rust is so exciting....
This is a enthusiast blog post. I’m not even gonna speak about how concurrency comes easy with Go. Honestly, I’m not good enough to speak about it. I’ll just speak about how using Go in my everyday programming makes me happy.
[If you prefer, you may watch the video of my talk on this topic (here are the slides).] If you thought you were safe from functional programming in your cozy C++ niche, think again! First the lamb…
At Hacker School , I've been building an alternate universe Python by overwriting builtin functions and statements with Harry Potter spells. This is a thing you can do at Hacker School!
My essay “In Search of Types” attempts to be a dispassionate review of some of the different concepts, purposes and attitudes surrounding the word “type” in programming. I imagine that my passions are still rather thinly veiled in places. But in this post I'm going to come out with a more unabashedly ranty take…
There were numerous posts on reddit, SO and the like which were asking for how to architect real world Haskell applications. Well, this is my go at it for an in-house testing tool which is used extensively. I would not claim myself an advanced Haskeller, some of the code is probably not idiomatic Haskell (and also…
Supervisor trees are one of the core ingredients in Erlang's reliability and let it crash philosophy . A well-structured Erlang program is broken into multiple independent pieces that communicate via messages, and when a piece crashes, the supervisor of that piece automatically restarts it.
mvc-updates 1.0 announcement post
Warning: another technical post.I wrote this cover letter many years ago, when I wanted to get accepted to the Matzov unit of the Israeli Defense Force (in Israeli, every male is conscripted…
gcvis is a simple way of visualising the operation of the garbage collector within a Go process. Here is a screenshot of it in operation. The rest of this article explores how gcvis works and how to interpret its results.
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Alex Payne wrote an excellent essay called Thoughts on Five Years of Emerging Languages. It called to mind something I wrote a while ago for a …
An elegant open source and mobile first theme for hugo made by @mdo . Originally made for Jekyll.
I wrote a lambda-calculus interpreter and an implementation of Hindley-Milner to type check it.
I believe the notion that Haskell uses “monads” to enforce purity is rather misleading. It has certainly caused quite a bit of confusion! It’s very much like saying we use “rings to do arithmetic”. We don’t! We use numbers, which just happen to form a ring with arithmetic operations. The important idea is the number …
What has caused you to slack off on the bug reporting? The cost of computer time or the human effort side? (I’m guessing the second.)
OK OK, I couldn't resist that title but it probably goes a bit far. Let me try for a little more nuance:
Programming languages new (Java) and old (Fortran), and their compilers, still lack competent support for features of IEEE 754 so painstakingly provided by practically all hardware nowadays. […] Programmers seem unaware that IEEE 754 is a standard for their programming environment, not just for hardware. William Kahan
Alright, guys. Today I want to talk about programming. It is interesting to note that I have solved it. Yes, I solved it. Here are my…
CoffeeScript is an open source project that provides a new syntax for JavaScript. I have to say that I have a lot of respect for CoffeeScript and it got a lot of things right. The “golden rule” of CoffeeScript is “It’s just JavaScript” . That means there is a straightforward equivalent to every line of CoffeeScript…
Anthony Starks has remixed my original Google Present based slides using his fantastic Deck presentation tool. You can check out his remix over on his blog, mindchunk.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/remixing-with-deck .
The web site has since been through various iterations and changes, therefore I include some screenshots below for posterity (because my design is much more beautiful than what is now online ;-).
"Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul." -John Carmack When the complexity of modern computing gets fatiguing, I look back to the simpler machines of my childhood. I grew up surrounded by various 8-bit and 16-bit machines (most of them already a few years outdated at the time),…
