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Flare: Clojure Dynamic Neural Net Library
I wrote Flare, a Dynamic Neural Net library in Clojure.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 894 posts.
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Demystifying Floating Point Precision
Floating point numbers have limited precision. If you are a game programmer, you have likely encountered bugs where things start breaking after too much time has elapsed, or after something has mov…
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Add a const here, delete a const there
Update, February 2019: Two years later the VC++ bug I reported here still exists, even in VS 2019 preview. However Chromium no longer builds with VC++ so I’m reverting the changes where I del…
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How Command Line Parameters Are Parsed (2016)
It's difficult to get the Windows Console to display Unicode characters, so here's a C++ WinForms program that will display the arguments in a TextBox.
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The Design and Use of QuickCheck
QuickCheck is the grandfather of property-based testing libraries. Despite being imitated in over thirty languages, the original implementation remains pre-eminent due to the type system and consistent logic of the Haskell language in which it is written.
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Origins and History of Unix, 1969-1995 (2003)
A notorious ‘second-system effect‘ often afflicts the successors of small experimental prototypes. The urge to add everything that was left out the first time around all too frequently leads to huge and overcomplicated design. Less well known, because less common, is the ‘third-system effect’; sometimes, after the…
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Not Explicit
Oftentimes when I am conversing about the design of Rust with other users - as on RFCs or the internals forum - I witness a peculiar remark about “explicitness.” It usually goes something like this: I do not like Feature Design X because it is too implicit. Magic is okay in Other Language Y, but Rust is supposed to be…
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DotNetAnywhere: An Alternative .NET Runtime
Recently I was listening to the excellent DotNetRocks podcast and they had Steven Sanderson (of Knockout.js fame) talking about ‘WebAssembly and Blazor’.
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A primer on Elixir Stream
ReactJS Elixir Erlang Golang D3 scalable web services developers
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Modern C++ and Lisp Programming Style
Modern C++, as defined in the C++11 standard has evolved to become an algorithmic language. This represents as much an idiomatic departure from Object Orientation as C++ was a departure from …
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Getting Started with Functional Programming in F#
Video presentation by Reid Evans on Getting Started with Functional Programming in F#. Here are my takeaways and thoughts on this great talk.
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The future of latency profiling in Go
The roadmap for latency profiling in Go
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Generating all permutations, combinations, and power set of a string (2012)
Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics that deal with counting of discrete structures. Two concepts that often come up in the study of c...
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The Many Layers of Packaging: Why PyPI Isn't an App Store
Thoughts on FOSS and fintech, layered by Mahmoud Hashemi
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Things about programming I learned with Go
Go has been gaining a significant popularity over last few months. Language-related articles and blog posts are written every day. New Go projects are started on Github. Go conferences and meetups attract more and more people. This language certainly has its time now. It became a language of the year 2016 according to…
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Java 8: New features in ConcurrentHashMap
DEAD CODE TECH LAW Contact us Our Location Icon label Alaska Icon label Nevada Icon label New Mexico Icon label Arizona Understanding the Role of a Medical Malpractice Lawyer: A Comprehensive Guide Medical malpractice cases are complex legal undertakings that require a specific set of skills and expertise. When faced…
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Undefined Behavior in 2017
Since you talk about the sanitizers and tools like Checked-C, I’ll note there’s also SaferCPlusPlus[1], which is essentially a memory-safe (and data race safe) subset of C++. The idea is that there are a finite number of C++ elements that contribute to memory unsafety, and since the advent of C++11, it is now…
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Why I Don't Prepare for Job Interviews
Cramming may get a candidate a job. But they won’t succeed at the job if they don’t have the skills and experience needed.
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The Three Ways of XOR
We all know the XOR operation. It’s the cousin of NOT, AND and OR. Like AND and OR, it is a binary boolean function. Unlike them, most programming languages ...
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A Foray into Go Assembly Programming
This blog post started last August when I was integrating the Spectator PercentileTimer concept into the metrics library in Rend so we could get better cross-fleet latency percentiles.
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TLA+ in Practice and Theory, Part 4: Order in TLA+
We learn how to encapsulate and compose TLA+ specifications, of the precise mathematical definition of abstraction, and compare TLA+'s notion of abstraction with those of other formalisms. Plus some various cool stuff.
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To type or not to type: quantifying detectable bugs in JavaScript
To type or not to type: quantifying detectable bugs in JavaScript Gao et al., ICSE 2017 This is a terrific piece of work with immediate practical applications for many project teams. Is it worth th…
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