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What happens when you challenge hundreds of elite programmers to put on their robes and wizard hats, enchant their minions to solve a constantly shifting multi-agent traveling salesman problem, use the loot to build mighty armies, and vie for eternal glory and tournament prizes? You get a lot of
Light Table 0.7.0 just went out, and in addition to being a fairly major update, we’ve got some fairly major news to accompany it. Some people expressed concern after Chris’s blog post about Eve that Light Table was being abandoned or forgotten, but hopefully some of the announcements today can assuage those concerns…
Hi all, PyPy-STM is now reaching a point where we can say it's good enough to be a GIL-less Python. (We don't guarantee there are no more...
If you record every heap allocation and re-allocation done by Firefox you find some interesting things. In particular, you find some sub-optimal buffer growth strategies that cause a lot of heap churn.
HgLab is a powerful self-hosted Mercurial Server and Repository Management for Windows with Push and Pull server, Active Directory and LDAP integration, built-in Pushlog and other goodies
Portal is a game that consists of a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player’s character and simple objects from one place to another.
Erlang releases are a bit like magnets. Everyone who thinks about them shares the same thought: f**king releases, how do they work?
Today, Feb. 24th, is the 21st anniversary of Ruby,so we happily announce a new patch release of Ruby 2.1, Ruby 2.1.1.
SIMD stands for Single Instruction Multiple Data, and is the name for performing operations on multiple data elements together. For example, a SIMD add instruction can add multiple values, in ...
Big news: late last week, generational garbage collection landed. It was backed out at first due to some test failures, but then re-landed and appears to have stuck.
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I’m going to talk today about what goes on in inside developers’ heads when they make estimates, why that’s so hard to fix, and how I personally figured out how to live and write software (for very happy business owners) even though my estimates are just as brutally unreliable as ever.
