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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 191 posts.

2011
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SpiderMonkey is on a diet

One thing I’ve learnt while working for Mozilla is that a web browser can be characterized as a JavaScript execution environment that happens to have some multimedia capabilities. In particular, if you look at Firefox’s about:memory page, the JS engine is very often the component responsible for consuming the most…

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Racket 5.1 Released

_posted by Eli Barzilay_ Racket version 5.1 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/The most significant change in version 5.1 is a rewrite of the GUI library. Unix/X users will see the biggest difference with this change, because DrRacket and all R...

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Code snippets on Microsoft website shown in form of images.

Azure Translator is a cloud-based machine translation service you can use to translate text through a simple REST API call. The service uses modern neural machine translation technology and offers statistical machine translation technology. Custom Translator is an extension of Translator, which allows you to build…