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Rewrite Everything in Rust
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 780 posts.
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Why does software development take so long?
Nageru 1.4.0 is out (and on its way through the Debian upload process right now), so now you can do live video mixing with multichannel audio to your heart's content. I've already blogged about most of the interesting new features, so instead, I'm trying to answer a question: What took so long?
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The Path to Rust
About six months ago, I started my first large-scale Rust-based project. I’d dabbled with the language in its early days, but back then it was a different beast, and not particularly approachable. I decided to try again, and I’m glad I did. Rust is quickly becoming my favorite language for all systems work (which is…
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Regular Expression That Checks If A Number Is Prime
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A beginners guide to thinking in SQL
In this tutorial we will learn about the concepts behind the SQL syntax. We will go through the basics of how to use the FROM and WHERE clauses, and move on to more advanced topics like joins, aggregations and subqueries.
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Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently
Answer to the famous question ‘Do good programmers use Google?’
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Git Undo
Tell me if you recognize this scenario: you’re in the middle of rewriting your local commits when you suddenly realize that you have gone too far and, after one too many rebases, you are left with a history that looks nothing like the way you wanted. No? Well, I certainly do. It was in one of those moments of despair…
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Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Programming blogs
This is one of those “N technical things every programmer must read” lists, except that “programmer” is way too broad a term and the styles of writing people find helpful for them are too different for any such list to contain a non-zero number of items (if you want the entire list to be helpful to everyone). So…
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Dropbox as a Git Server
git-remote-dropbox is now on PyPI!
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The Deletion of gcj
I originally posted this on G+ but I thought maybe I should expand it a little and archive it here.
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Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices” (2014)
I've just read " The Low Quality of Scientific Code ", which claims that code written by scientists comes out worse than it would if "software engineers" were involved.
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Modern Functional Programming: The Onion Architecture
The onion architecture may be the future of large-scale FP
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Curl Security Audit
"the overall impression of the state of security and robustness of the cURL library was positive." I asked for, and we were granted a security audit of curl from the Mozilla Secure Open Source program a while ago. This was done by Mozilla getting a 3rd party company involved to do the job and footing … Continue…
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Breaking homegrown crypto
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I Love Go; I Hate Go
I liked Go right away. It was close enough to C and Java to be instantly familiar, the examples and tutorials were straightforward, and I was quickly writing…
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Does a compiler use all x86 instructions? (2010)
On the Z80 CPU there are so few registers and instructions that you can easily know and use them all and wish there were more of them. However, half of the time it feels like the only on you really use is ld. I imagine that if ld took half the number of clock cycles, average code would run twice as fast.
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How to do distributed locking
As part of the research for my book , I came across an algorithm called Redlock on the Redis website. The algorithm claims to implement fault-tolerant distributed locks (or rather, leases [1]) on top of Redis, and the page asks for feedback from people who are into distributed systems. The algorithm instinctively set…
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A Git catastrophe cleaned up
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Coding without Google
Back in 2016, an intriguing article appeared on Reddit: “Do Experienced Programmers Use Google Frequently?”. The author discussed if expert programmers use google more often than novice coders. He mentioned that using google is a good thing. It helps to find the best solutions, validate ideas, speed the development…