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Ready for changes with Hexagonal Architecture
A story on how we leveraged Hexagonal Architecture principles to be prepared for changes in the Netflix Studio ecosystem.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 514 posts.
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Clojure: `every-pred` and `some-fn`
This post is part of Advent of Parens 2019 , my attempt to publish one blog post a day during the 24 days of the advent. Ah clojure.core , it’s like an all you can eat hot-pot....
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REBOL Oneliners
One-liners are like Haiku poetry. Not always practical, not always readable, they are fun to write. As with any art, some are better than others, but from time-to-time, a true gem pops up.
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Programming R at native speed using Haskell (2015)
Software Innovation Lab
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An interview code submission that wasn’t even submitted changed our process
In a previous role, I was an engineering manager for a well-known company for a particular tech stack. One way we sorted through all the applications was requiring coding tests for potential candidates. One truly stood out, and it taught me to think about what I am really looking for in these sorts of submissions.
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A single character code change
Or four one liners every Java programmer should know
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PC DOS Reimagined
PCjs offers a variety of online machine emulators written in JavaScript. Run DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications in a web browser on your desktop computer, iPhone, or iPad. An assortment of microcomputers, minicomputers, terminals, programmable calculators, and arcade machines are also available…
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Static Analysis
Nim is in an excellent position to “get married” with static analysis, and it doesn’t have to be based on some intermediate representation but can achieve a solution more similar to Spark.
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Mendoza: Use stack machines to compute efficient JSON diffs
Mendoza is a new, super efficient format for expressing differences between JSON documents.
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Don't Panic! Better, Fewer, Syntax Errors for LR Parsers
Abstract Syntax errors are generally easy to fix for humans, but not for parsers in general nor LR parsers in particular. Traditional ‘panic mode’ error recovery, though easy to implement and applicable to any grammar, often leads to a cascading chain of errors that drown out the original. More advanced error recovery…
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Can developer productivity be measured?
Defining and measuring programmer productivity is one of the most difficult parts of an engineering manager or CTO’s job description. When everything you do is intangible, how should you measure it? Can it be measured at all?
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How to trigger races reliably in the Linux kernel
What's a race anyways? Most of the readers, for sure, do know what a race condition is. Let me however include short description just fo...
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Implementing single-file web components
Probably everyone who knows the Vue.js also heard about its single-file components. This simple idea allows developers to define the entire code of a component in one file.
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Bevy 0.4: data oriented game engine built in Rust
A little over a month after releasing Bevy 0.3, and thanks to 66 contributors, 178 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the…
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Github: Token authentication requirements for Git operations
Beginning August 13th, 2021, we will no longer accept account passwords when authenticating Git operations on GitHub.com.
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Bulk loading into PostgreSQL: Options and comparison
You have a file, possibly a huge CSV, and you want to import its content into your database. There are lots of options to do this but how would you decide which one to use. More often than not the question is how much time would the bulk load would take. I found my self doing the same
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PyMC: Theano Is Dead, Long Live Theano
© 2020, The PyMC Development Team
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Is Go Duck-Typed?
In programming languages, duck typing can be approximated as the application of the duck test to objects. Here we explore if go is duck typed.
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Customers do not ask for software complexity
Asking for software complexity is insane. Nobody wants software solutions that are complex. It is comparable with smart cities, intelligent lockdowns and safe banks. Nobody wants stupid cities, governmental panic measurements to fight covid-19 or a bank that can not be trusted with handling money.
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Metal for IntelliJ Platform
As you may already know, Apple deprecated the OpenGL rendering library in macOS Mojave and provided the Metal framework as a replacement. Metal better reflects the shift in CPU/GPU performance that ha
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PEP 638 – Syntactic Macros
This PEP adds support for syntactic macros to Python. A macro is a compile-time function that transforms a part of the program to allow functionality that cannot be expressed cleanly in normal library code.
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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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The Slippery Slope of Docker Dev Environments
Explore the pros and cons of Docker for local development and learn how to set up a developer-friendly, container-based workflow. Perfect for DevOps enthusiasts and developers!
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Forcing Functions in Software Development
Here’s an unavoidable fact: the software project you’re working on has some flaws that no one knows about. Not you, your users, nor anyone in your team. These could be anything from fau…
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GitHub CLI allows you to close, reopen, and add metadata to issues and PR
GitHub CLI now allows you to close, reopen, and add metadata to issues and pull requests.
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Baremetal programming on the tinyAVR 0 micro-controllers
All you need is a text editor, a makefile and a USB-serial cable.
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Defensive Programming
A community and blog for embedded software makers