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Clojure on Heroku
We're very excited to announce official support for Clojure, going into public beta as of today. Clojure is the third official language supported by Heroku
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 191 posts.
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Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released
Sublime Text 2 is available now as a public alpha, for Windows, OS X, and Linux.
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Sublime Text 2: Beta
Since the first public Alpha at the end of January, there have been 12 new releases, and many more dev builds. On average, that's a new version every two weeks for the past five months. During this time, Sublime Text 2 has made great strides in functionality, and a correspondingly large increase in users. Sublime Text…
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The Dropbox API
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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PyPy is faster than C, again: string formatting
String formatting is probably something you do just about every day in Python, and never think about. It's so easy, just "%d %d" % (i, i) ...
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Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro
Short Ruby on Rails screencasts containing tips, tricks and tutorials. Great for both novice and experienced web developers.
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Bug Prediction at Google
What's the problem? Here at Google, we have thousands of engineers working on our code base every day. In fact, as previously noted , 50%...
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Skype's Crazy Regex Easter Egg
Today I was chatting with a colleague on Skype, and as is often the case, misspelled something in my rush to get something across. A habit I picked up in the IRC days, days I realize have not...
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LLVM 3.0 Released
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 3.0. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the…
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Python For The Web
The Gun.io blog: insights on hiring software developers, AI in engineering, distributed teams and how to build high-performing technical teams.
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MemShrink progress report, week 23
The only significant MemShrink-related change that landed this week was that David Anderson removed TraceMonkey , the tracing JIT compiler. In fact, TraceMonkey was disabled a while ago, so the effects on code size and memory consumption of its removal have been felt since then. But it feels more real now that the…
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Moving from SVN to Git in 1,000 easy steps
This past summer we completed a project that spanned several months of planning and preparation - moving our source control from...
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This is CoffeeScript
I’ve been writing some CoffeeScript lately, and it’s been fantastic. I wish I...
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