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Clojure & Python, Side by Side
Function order has been rearranged here and there to appease Clojure's single-pass compiler.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 488 posts.
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What it's like building a real website in Node.js
Tech Nerd. CEO.
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Dealing with Timezones in Python
The problems with timezones and Python’s datetime object and how you would properly use them.
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Fantastic summary of some of the math pertinent to theoretical computer science.
This web page is a revised and extended version of Appendix A from the book Conceptual Structures by John F. Sowa. It presents a brief summary of the following topics for students and general readers of that book and related books such as Knowledge Representation and books on logic, linguistics, and computer science.
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Finding memory leaks
Over lunch last week Mikhail Naganov (creator of the DevTools Heap Profiler ) and I were discussing how invaluable it has been to have the ...
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Git is Inconsistent
Zooko provides a nice example of the problems with most distributed version control systems merge algorithms. He gives an example of a merge situation that most version control systems, including git, get wrong, but that darcs, Codeville, SCCS, and perhaps BitKeeper get correct.
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The Coding Zone
There are a few things you'll need for a productive programming session.
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What can you do in 2k LOC of C?
It started with stb_image.c because it’s just crazy useful and avoids so much hassle in small demo programs. But that was just the gateway…
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Surprises from numerical linear algebra (2010)
Here are ten things about numerical linear algebra that you may find surprising if you're not familiar with the field. Numerical linear algebra applies very advanced mathematics to solve problems that can be stated with high school mathematics. Practical applications often require solving enormous systems of…
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Treatise on Font Rasterisation
Font rasterisation is, in the author’s opinion, one of the most interesting fields of computer science. If music is the subjective application of physics, then font rasterisation is almost certainly the subjective application of computer science. The purpose of this article is threefold: firstly, to provide an…
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John Gruber Has Some Career Advice For Developers
( 33:45-35:53 from John Gruber's keynote speech at The Çingleton Symposium, a conference which took place in Montréal on October 14th and 1...
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Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes
I switch between programming languages quite a bit; I often wondered what happens when having to deal with the different syntaxes, does the syntax allow you to be more expressive or faster at coding in one language or another. I dont really know about that; but what I do know
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Django Advice
For the past year and a half or so I've been working full-time at Dumbwaiter Design doing Django development. I've picked up a bunch of useful tricks along the way that help me work, and I figured I'd share them.
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WinRT demystified
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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Speeding up Rails startup time
In which I provide easy instructions to try a new patch that drastically improves the start up time of Ruby applications, in the hope that with wide support it will be merged into the upcoming 1.9.3 release. Skip to the bottom for instructions, or keep reading for the narrative.
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Understanding the code inside Tornado, the asynchronous web server
If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required.
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