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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 320 posts.
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CircuitLab + Electronics.StackExchange.com Integration
We are excited to announce that CircuitLab is now integrated with the Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange site! Users can now insert a CircuitLab schematic directly into their question or answer.
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Beyond the default Rails environments
Rails ships with a default configuration for the three most common environments that all applications need: test, development, and production. That’s a great start, and for smaller apps, probably enough too. But for Basecamp, we have another three: Beta: For testing feature branches on rea…
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RethinkDB 1.9: Indexing and query runtime performance
This release includes massive enhancements that improve performance of many queries by orders of magnitude. See the full list of enhancements , or watch Joe Doliner ( @jdoliner ), an engineer at RethinkDB, talk about the 1.9 release in this two-minute video:
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Cap'n Proto v0.3: Python support, better tools, other improvements
Moved to: https://capnproto.org/news/2013-09-04-capnproto-0.3-python-tools-features.html (GitHub Pages doesn't support 301 redirects :(.)
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PyPy 2.0 beta 2 released
We're pleased to announce the 2.0 beta 2 release of PyPy. This is a major release of PyPy and we're getting very close to 2.0 final, howeve...
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Million Lines of Code - Infographic
Is a million lines of code a lot? How many lines of code are there in Windows? Facebook? iPhone apps? Let our data-visualization program your brain.
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Strings, bytes, runes and characters in Go
How strings work in Go, and how to use them.
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Profiling Go Programs
How to use Go's built-in profiler to understand and optimize your programs.
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Defer, Panic, and Recover
An introduction to the Go's defer, panic, and recover control flow mechanisms.
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PEP 373 – Python 2.7 Release Schedule
This document describes the development and release schedule for Python 2.7.
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Panic Blog » The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise
We’ve been doing significant testing lately with video out using various iOS devices for an upcoming project. In doing so, we waded right in the middle of a strange video out mystery. It’s time to unravel that mystery. (Chung-chung!)