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Problems with DSLs for non-programmers
DSLs are suggested to be an aid for the users that want to extend the programs they work with easily, but do they work?
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 874 posts.
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Why async fn in traits are hard
After reading boat’s excellent post on asynchronous destructors , I thought it might be a good idea to write some about async fn in traits. Support for async fn in traits is probably the single most common feature request that I hear about. It’s also one of the more complex topics. So I thought it’d be nice to do a…
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JVM Anatomy Quarks: Compressed References
"JVM Anatomy Quarks" is the on-going mini-post series, where every post is describing some elementary piece of knowledge about JVM. The name underlines the fact that the single post cannot be taken in isolation, and most pieces described here are going to readily interact with each other.
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How to build a distributed throttling system with Nginx, Lua, and Redis
At the last Globo.com’s hackathon, Lucas Costa and I built a simple Lua library to provide a distributed rate measurement system that depends on Redis and run embedded in Nginx but before we …
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Fun with compute shaders and fluid dynamics
Adrian Kummerländer's blog on software development, linux and open source
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Write Fuzzable Code
“An obvious way to deal with embedded interpreters — which someone must have thought of and tried, but I don’t have any pointers — would be to have an API for teaching the fuzzer how to see coverage of the language being interpreted.”
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Eric's Guide to Hiring Software Developers
First of a two-part series on the best strategies for hiring humans in the 21st century. Fueled by both personal experience and the experience of countless mentors (and recruiters), this gigantic post is bursting at the seams with knowledge. Though specifically written by a CTO-type, the strategies are useful for…
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Procedural content generation: creating a universe (2015)
23114, 584, 46931, these three numbers were used to create the entire universe for Elite .
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Let's Build a Simple Interpreter. Part 14: Nested Scopes (2017)
Only dead fish go with the flow. As I promised in the last article, today we’re finally going to do a deep dive into the topic of scopes. This is what we’re going to learn today: We’re going to learn about scopes, why they are useful, and …
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C# 8: Switch expressions
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Hash tables
In this post you will learn what hash tables are, why you would use them, and how they are used to implement dictionaries in the most popular Python interpreter—CPython.
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Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake
Just hearing the word CMake is typically enough to make a shiver run down my spine. I’ve been deep in the muck of its behavior and tooling the last few weeks as I finish up a CMake library titled IXM. While the various minutiae of how IXM works, why I wrote it, and all the nice little usage details are definitely for…
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Ray Tracing Denoising
An overview of ray tracing denoising, reviewing filtering, spatiotemporal, sampling and AI techniques to improve convergence and temporal coherency in real time ray traced applications.
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Fast Perfect Hashing
A perfect hash function is one that is collision-free. By implication, the hash must be at least as many bytes as the key and the function is theoretically reversible, though not always tractably so. In other words, perfect hashing is a special case of encryption. Because the hash is no smaller than the key, the…
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Shenanigans With Hash Tables
One reason to know how your data structures work is so that when your problem has unusual constraints you can tweak how they work to fit the problem better or work faster. In this article I’ll talk about four different fun tweaks to the concept of a hash table that I made in the process of using hash tables to…
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Clojure and Deps.edn: A basic guide
After a rather long break from programming and Clojure I decided give them another go. When it comes to managing Clojure projects, Leiningen is de-facto standard tool. Recently, Clojure CLI tools are becoming more and more popular, though. Switching to yet-another-build-tool doesn't have any pragmatic value, but it's…
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Using Makefile(s) for Go
Using Makefile(s) for Go — Danish Prakash
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Fibers: An Elegant Windows API
The Windows API — a.k.a. Win32 — is notorious for being clunky, ugly, and lacking good taste. Microsoft has done a pretty commendable job with backwards compatibility, but the trade-off is that the API is filled to the brim with historical cruft. Every hasty, poor design over the decades is carried forward forever…
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Lisp Macros, Delayed Evaluation and the Evolution of Smalltalk
At a recent Clojure Berlin Meetup , Veit Heller gave an interesting talk on Macros in Clojure. The meetup was very enjoyable, and the talk...
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How to use array reduce for more than just numbers
The array reduce method is really powerful. But people often run into trouble as soon as they step beyond the basic examples. Simple things like addition and multiplication are fine. But as soon as you try it with something more complicated, it breaks. Using it with anything other than numbers starts to get really…
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Why to use ‘python -m pip’
Fellow core developer and Canadian, Mariatta, asked on Twitter about python -m pip and who told her about that idiom along with asking for a reference explaining it: I learned sometime ago that we should be doing `python -m pip install ...` instead of simply `pip install ...` but now I can'