331
Topics /
Software Engineering
The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 537 posts.
332
List out of Lambda
If you ignore the practical issues of computers like size, weight, cost, heat, and so on, what do you really need in a programming language? Let's play around with this question.
333
334
335
An Ill-Advised Personal Note about "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable"
The talk I released today is called " Media for Thinking the Unthinkable ". It's the most personal talk I've given, in that it was driven by my own motivations as opposed to someone else's.
336
337
338
From zero to cooperative threads in 33 lines of Haskell
A tiny implementation of coroutines
339
The Node.js Community is Quietly Changing the Face of Open Source
The node.js community is developing at an amazing pace. What are the many differences that make that possible?
340
The Chrome Javascript editor can do hot swapping
Hot swapping is the process of replacing code while the application is running. It allows a developer to see changes immediately - no recompiling, no waiting on page reloads, and no clicking to get to the application state where the code was changed. Just save the file and you’ll see the changes. I would say hot…
341
342
A New Book: Building Machine Learning Systems with Python
I wrote a book. Well, only in part. Willi Richert and I wrote a book. It is called Building Machine Learning Systems With Python and is now available from Amazon (or Amazon.co.uk), although it has …
343
344
C.S. on the cheap
The famous book publisher Hayward Cirker, the founder of Dover Publications built a fortune on finding obscure books that had either gone out of print or escaped publication altogether, and printing them himself. Among his many successes you’ll find amazing books on mathematics and physics including The Theory of…
345
346
347
Why Isn’t Programming Futuristic?
If you think someone is asking a rhetorical question, it is usually most interesting to treat it as though it is a legitimate question. Especially if we’re talking about something hard — driving down to underlying assumptions through this questioning process is interesting.
348
100,000 DOM Updates
Click the table of zeroes once. Note that the text input field remains responsive even as we run 100,000 updates on the DOM. The colors of the table show the render batching boundaries. Note, I would not try this on a mobile device ;)
349
350
351
352
353
354
355
The trouble with timestamps
Some folks have asked whether Cassandra or Riak in last-write-wins mode are monotonically consistent, or whether they can guarantee read-your-writes, and so on. This is a fascinating question, and leads to all sorts of interesting properties about clocks and causality.
356
357
Distributed systems for fun and profit
git , Single page HTML , Kindle .mobi , PDF , .epub , HTML for printing , book cover .
358
Build your own summary tool
After Yahoo! acquired Summly and Google acquired Wavii, there is no doubt that auto summarization technologies are a hot topic in the industry. So as a NLP freak, I decided to give a quick overvie…
359
360
