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I’m joining the Go team at Google
I am honored to share that I have joined Google as a member of the Go team and will be primarily based in NYC.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 780 posts.
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Don Libes' Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool
In this article, I will attempt to convince you that Expect is an extremely underappreciated tool for automating terminal applications in Unix.
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Learn Raw React – No JSX, No Flux, No ES6, No Webpack
Learn React from the ground up, without worrying about JSX, Flux, ES6, Webpack, etc.
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Why I'm Making Python 2.8
For the past two months I've been spending half my time on Tauthon . Tauthon is a backwards-compatible Python interpreter that runs Python 2 code and C-extensions exactly as-is, while also allowing Python 2 programmers to use the most exciting new language features from Python 3. These new backported language features…
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Amazon software engineer interview
Sobit Akhmedov is a staff software engineer with 14 years experience building e-commerce, financial and cloud storage solutions for startup and Big Five companies.
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Show HN: QBE – a new compiler back end
QBE is a compiler backend that aims to provide 70% of the performance of industrial optimizing compilers in 10% of the code. QBE fosters language innovation by offering a compact user-friendly and performant backend. The size limit constrains QBE to focus on the essential and prevents embarking on a never-ending path…
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When to Rewrite from Scratch – Autopsy of Failed Software
A case study of rewriting software system from scratch and why it failed.
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Automatically grading multiple choice exams from photos using Python and OpenCV
Discover how to build a bubble sheet multiple choice scanner and test grader using Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) along with Python, OpenCV, computer vision
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A Tour of Python’s Data Visualization Landscape, Including Ggplot and Altair
Why Even Try, Man? I recently came upon Brian Granger and Jake VanderPlas’s Altair, a promising young visualization library. Altair seems well-suited to addressing Python’s ggplot …
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Alert: NPM modules hijacked
<p><strong>EDIT : User @nj48 appears to <a href="https://twitter.com/seldo/status/712673227630313472">have no malicious intentions</a>.</strong></p>
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Looking at your program’s structure in Go 1.7
Go 1.7—out today!—features an new SSA-based compiler backend. SSA is a method of describing low-level operations like loads and stores that roughly map to machine instructions, with the special difference that SSA acts as though it has infinite number...
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Number plate recognition with Tensorflow
Over the past few weeks I’ve been dabbling with deep learning, in particular convolutional neural networks . One standout paper from recent times is Google’s Multi-digit Number Recognition from Street View . This paper describes a system for extracting house numbers from street view imagery using a single end-to-end…
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Unix as IDE
This series has been independently translated into Chinese , Russian , Turkish , and Korean , and formatted as an ebook .
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How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions
Updated Oct 27, 2016: Fixed sample code comments in coroutine example as per suggestion , edited text to note D's similar behaviour .
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Letters between Backus and Dijkstra (1979)
Letters between John W Backus and Edsger W Dijkstra, 1979
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How many lines of code is Candy Japan?
Guess how many lines of code you end up with when writing a subscription box site from scratch.
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The Human Cost of Tech Debt
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the Infragistics blog. Head over to their site and check out the original. While you’re there, have a look at the other blog authors and their product offering. If you’re not already familiar with the concept of technical debt, it’s worth becoming familiar with it. I…
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A Visual and Interactive Guide to the Basics of Neural Networks
Discussions: Hacker News (63 points, 8 comments), Reddit r/programming (312 points, 37 comments) Translations: Arabic, French, Spanish Update: Part 2 is now live: A Visual And Interactive Look at Basic Neural Network Math Motivation I’m not a machine learning expert. I’m a software engineer by training and I’ve had…
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My experience rewriting Enjarify in Rust
I have moved off Medium to a personal blog. Click here for the updated post.
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An Introduction to Geometric Algebra
Linear Algebra Geometric Algebra Applications Multiplying Vectors Rotors Double Angle Formula Complex Numbers Characterizing B Ratios Conjugates Geometric Algebra is fascinating, and I believe solves a large number of problems that arise from a more traditional approach to vectors, but I've been very disappointed with…
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Moving Away from Python 2
About a month ago I tweeted this: Thought: get the maintainers of a bunch of big Python libraries to sign something saying that they WILL drop Python 2.7 support in 2020.— Aaron Meurer (@asmeurer) Mar
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Outlook 2016’s New POP3 Bug Deletes Your Emails
Yikes, looks like the new version of Outlook 20016 has broken the POP3 implementation. If you are currently using the “leave on server and delete after x days” function, the you should check your account because it seems like that the new Outlook is actually deleting your emails almost immediately after retrieving…