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Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 488 posts.
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Tim Bray on Dennis Ritchie
Writing operating systems in a compiled machine-independent programming language.
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Git is as revolutionary as Unix pipes (2008)
I am now officially part of the "previous" generation of programmers. I know this because the new generation no longer has "vi vs. emacs" e...
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ORM is an anti-pattern
ORM looks great early in a project but breaks down as complexity grows, forcing you to learn SQL anyway. Relations aren't objects. Either use NoSQL for object-like data or write a model layer with real SQL. ORM's abstraction is leaky, its efficiency poor, and the alternatives are better.
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How to improve your programming skills
Learning new programming languages will expose you to new ways of thinking; especially if the new language uses a paradigm which you aren’t yet familiar with. Many of the ways of thinking that you will learn can be applied to languages that you already know, and you might even want to start using the new language for…
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Knuth and the Unix Way
Another great post
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Now that people are considering NOSQL will more people consider no-DB
A memory image replaces database interactions with in-memory data using event sourcing to record persistent changes
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Kill Math
The power to understand and predict the quantities of the world should not be restricted to those with a freakish knack for manipulating abstract symbols.
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Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel ...
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The Mature Programmer
1. The Mature Programmer The mature programmer manages their own time and productivity well. The MP knows that maintenance is as much wo...
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Joel Spolsky: Can your programming language do this?
One day, you’re browsing through your code, and you notice two big blocks that look almost exactly the same. In fact, they’re exactly the same, except that one block refers to “Sp…
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WTH is happening to Rails? I'll tell you.
I just read the blog post that got some traction on HN last night, entitled “ What the hell is happening to rails? ” It goes on to list a litany of complaints against changes in Rails 3.x, ranging from the default commenting of the catch-all route to, yes, of course, CoffeeScript. They all end up sounding a lot like…
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Aha Moments When Learning Git
Git is a fast, flexible but challenging distributed version control system. Before jumping in: Along with a book, tutorial and cheatsheet, here are the…
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Miguel de Icaza: Learning Unix
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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A little game to demonstrate timing attacks.
Lauren Ipsum is trying to get past Jane Hecate, a little old lady who holds the Book of Passwords. Jane is older and can't see well, so she has to spell out Lauren's guess letter by letter to check whether it's the right password. How can Lauren use this to her advantage? A story about computer science and other…
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Back in the Django saddle
As a co-creator and one of the two Benevolent Dictators for Life of Django , my responsibility is to guide the open-source project forward. I did a great job of this for several years: from our open-sourcing in July 2005 (and for about two years prior to that), I was rather obsessed with it, contributing thousands of…
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The LMAX Architecture - 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency
LMAX is a retail financial trading system that can handle that can 6 million orders per second on a single JVM thread. The business logic runs in-memory surrounded by disruptors using event sourcing.
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Best algorithms book I ever read
Best algorithms book I ever read I took a fair amount of time looking at data structures and algorithms while I was st...
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The switch: Python to Node.js
In my previous post , I glossed over our team switching from Python to Node.js. I kept it brief because the switch wasn’t the focus of the post, but since I believe I am being misunderstood, I will explain it in depth:
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Python and the Principle of Least Astonishment
Why Python follows the Principle of Least Astonishment even when some people are surprised.
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