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Have you ever wanted to call into your Lisp library from C? Have you ever written your nice scientific application in Lisp, only to be requ...
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Two years ago, I starting learning PureScript. I had been intrigued by purely functional programming for some time but had failed to learn Haskell once or twice. PureScript seemed to be a kinder, gentler introduction to this world while retaining the fundamental properties of pureness that made Haskell intriguing to…
It’s one of the most repeated phrases in software, but is also quite easy to forget - you spend more time reading code than you do writing it. According to the…
A graphics study of Doom Eternal
Probability theory might be the most useful area for programmers, but it is also a blurry field, difficult to learn right. You might check this book for details, and there is also an free, online draft version available. The Logic of Science
Disclaimer: I’m no sysadmin extraordinaire, please please please correct me if there’s something blatantly wrong here:
This is going to be a bit long, so tl;dr asm.js is a formalization of a pattern of JavaScript that has been developing in a natural way o...
I'm the president of VideoLAN, one of the lead developers of VLC and a maintainer of open source multimedia projects. I created several startups, was the CTO of scale-ups, and advised startups and VCs.
Earlier today Rich Hickey let the cat out of the bag that I’m joining the Clojure Core development team.
(the pictured dish is apparently materials for “Buddha Jumps Over The Wall”, named for its ability to seduce away vegetarians – sadly it uses shark fin so has some ethical issues&…
On April 27, 2019, I gave a talk on how to use OpenBSD to write better software at CarolinaCon 15 in Charlotte.
I’ve been a software developer at EBANX since 2016. There we have a mechanism called Release Candidate. Every time we deploy something new to our monolith PHP system we end up deploying it first to the release candidate server. Then we elect a few random requests and proxy it from our live normal servers to the…
For many types of applications, at times it is necessary to pause the running of the program until some external condition occurs. You may need to wait until another thread finishes, or maybe until a…
Software engineer specializing in query engines and distributed systems
This is part 11 of Categories for Programmers. Previously: Natural Transformations. See the Table of Contents. Introduction to Part II In the first part of the book I argued that both category theo…
Hi, welcome to my website! This is where I share my thoughts on things that interest me, mostly tech, philosophy, history, and math.
Researcher at Intel
Lists are rather hardware-unfriendly data structure. However, having a closer look at why is that and what can be done to improve this can provide an interesting insight into how high-level algorithms performance is affected by the processor microarchitecture.
A friend once said to me: You know, to some people, C is just a bunch of macros that expand to assembly . It’s been years ago (smartasses: it was also before llvm , ok?), but the sentence stuck with me. Do Kernighan and Ritchie really look at a C program and see assembly code? Does Tim Berners-Lee surf the Web any…
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Update: I updated the links again. pdf.js has moved to a new location on github. Why? While traveling to the Firefox 4 launch parties in Seoul and Taipei all the way from California, we killed a lo…
Techniques and tools for profiling Go applications including pprof, benchmarks, and memory management analysis.
