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An introduction to deterministic builds with C/C++
What are deterministic builds?
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 483 posts.
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PyPy for low-latency systems
PyPy for low-latency systems Recently I have merged the gc-disable branch, introducing a couple of features which are useful when you need...
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Software architects should be involved in earliest system engineering activities
Today's major defense systems rely heavily on software-enabled capabilities. However, many defense programs acquiring new systems first determine the physical items to develop....
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Racket v7.2
_posted by Vincent St-Amour_ Racket version 7.2 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Racket-on-Chez is done in a useful sense, but we'll wait until it gets better before making it the default Racket implementation. For more information, see htt...
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Open-sourcing F14 for memory-efficient hash tables
Hash tables provide a fast way to maintain a set of keys or map keys to values, even if the keys are objects, like strings. They are such a ubiquitous tool in computer science that even incremental…
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Reducing the Performance Gap of Intel's MKL on AMD Threadripper
In this post I'm going to show you a simple way to significantly speedup Python numpy compute performance on AMD CPU's when using Anaconda Python.
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Yaegi – Yet Another Go Interpreter
Yaegi, Yet Another Go Interpreter, is an open source project to bring executableGo scripts, embedded plugins on top of the Go runtime...
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GCC 9.1 Released
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Why Generics?
Why should we add generics to Go, and what might they look like?
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Urql: a GraphQL client library
Analysis for enterprise leaders from Nearform on AI-native delivery, spec-driven development, AI ROI, governance and modernisation.
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The little legacy code that could: a fable of software ownership
Learn about ownership of legacy software code.
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Should that be a microservice? Factors to keep in mind
There are many good reasons to use a microservices architecture. In this post, we examine 6 factors to help you decide when to use—and when not to use—microservices.
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A New Bytecode Format for JavaScriptCore
In revision r237547 we introduced a new bytecode format for JavaScriptCore (JSC).
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Zig 0.5.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language designed for robustness , optimality , and maintainability . Zig is aggressively pursuing its goal of overthrowing C as the de facto language for system programming. Zig intends to be so practical that people find themselves using it, because it "just works".
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How We Built a Vectorized SQL Engine
Using vectorized processing in an execution engine makes more efficient use of modern CPUs by changing the data orientation (from rows to columns) to get more out of the CPU cache and deep instruction pipelines by operating on batches of data at a time.
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Inside Erlang – Joe Armstrong tells his story (2014)
Erlang is a programming language designed by Ericsson and used by a number of companies such as WhatsApp, Amazon and Facebook. Watch its creator Joe Armstrong speak about its development and enduring popularity.
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Our journey to type checking 4M lines of Python
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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AMD GCN Radeon Support in GCC 9
This is the mail archive of the gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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DiffEqFlux.jl – A Julia Library for Neural Differential Equations
DiffEqFlux.jl – A Julia Library for Neural Differential Equations...
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Smarter Training of Neural Networks
These days, nearly all the artificial intelligence-based products in our lives rely on “deep neural networks” that automatically learn to process labeled data.
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The state of gRPC in the browser
gRPC 1.0 was released in August 2016 and has since grown to become one of the premier technical solutions for application communications. It has been adopted by startups, enterprise companies, and open source projects worldwide. Its support for polyglot environments, focus on performance, type safety, and developer…
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Why Is the Migration to Python 3 Taking So Long?
For some companies who have already made the change years ago, it won’t be an issue. However, there’s a whole range of companies who won’t be making the change anytime soon, for a number of reasons. What does this change mean for companies heavily utilizing the language, particularly those who may not be ready to…
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Airbnb Is Moving Faster at Scale with GraphQL and Apollo
Demystifying my GraphQL Summit talk