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SQLite now allows multiple recursive SELECT statements in a single recursive CTE
Is there any command to see the history of a file beyond renames, similar to git log --follow <file> ?
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 514 posts.
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OTP 23
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Static Analysis in GCC 10
Discover the new -fanalyzer option coming to GCC 10 that provides a static analysis pass to identify problems at compile-time, rather than at runtime.
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YOLOv5: State-of-the-art object detection at 140 FPS
YOLOv5 license and commercial-use guide: AGPL-3.0 terms, specs, resources, and alternatives. Compare YOLOv5 against other vision models free.
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Elixir 1.11
Elixir v1.11 is out with improvements to the compiler and tighter integration with Erlang/OTP.
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SQLite 3.32
A complete list of SQLite releases in a single page and a chronology are both also available. A detailed history of every check-in is available at SQLite version control site .
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Things we learned running Postgres 13
Learn about smaller indexes with B-Tree Deduplication, Extended Statistics Improvements, Parallel VACUUM, improved WAL Usage Stats in Postgres 13, and more.
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iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see light of day (2018)
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Statement Regarding the Zen Programming Language
Original English version available below. We are thankful to 株式会社HYPERIA and all the members of the Zig community that helped us with the Japanese translation.
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Flutter vs. Other Mobile Development Frameworks: A UI and Performance Experiment
In this experiment we created the same app five times, each time with a different framework. The frameworks I used were native Android, native iOS, Flutter, Xamarin Forms and React Native
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To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
MIT neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the “multiple demand network,” which is also recruited for complex cognitive tasks such as solving math problems or crossword puzzles.
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Elixir v1.10
Elixir v1.10 is out with standard library, compiler, and releases improvements.
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Emacs: The most successful malleable system
Emacs is probably the most successful malleable system in the history of computing. What can we learn from it for designing the malleable systems of the future?
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Deploys at Slack
Deploys require a careful balance of speed and reliability. At Slack, we value quick iteration, fast feedback loops, and responsiveness to customer feedback. We also have hundreds of engineers who are trying to be as productive as possible. Keeping to these values while growing as a company means continual refinement…
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Ways to make a web component
Compare coding style, bundle size and performance of 61 different ways to make a Web Component.
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Dark’s new backend will be in F#
Welcome HN! Dark is a programming language, structured editor, and infrastructure—all in one—whose goal is to make it 100x easier to build backend services. Check out the website, our What is Dark post, and How Dark deploys in 50ms for more. Thanks for checking us out! Part of
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Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering
It's now been more than 50 years since the first IFIP Conference on Software Engineering, and in that time there have been many different software engineering methodologies, processes, and models proposed to help software developers achieve that predictable and cost-effective process. But 50 years later, we still seem…
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Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
Until recently, across a half-century perhaps fewer than a dozen people had ever had the opportunity to read Dennis Ritchie’s dissertation—the intellectual and biographical fork-in-the-road separating an academic career in computer science from the one at Bell Labs leading to C and Unix. Why?
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Django 3.1
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on Aug. 4, 2020
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TypeScript 4.1
Today we're proud to release TypeScript 4.1! If you're unfamiliar with TypeScript, it's a language that builds on JavaScript by adding syntax for type
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Defunctionalisation: An underappreciated tool for writing good software
Explore defunctionalisation as a tool for writing efficient software with insights from our own Patrick Stevens. See its benefits in code optimisation.
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Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support
A behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the Picture-in-Picture player for the Firefox Desktop browser. This feature is now available for MacOS, Linux and Windows users. From the beginning, it's ...
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Svelte and TypeScript
Typernetically enhanced web apps
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Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users (2019)
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Haskell Mini-Patterns Handbook
Collection of small Haskell patterns with detailed description, examples and exercises