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Python overtakes JavaScript as most questioned language on StackOverflow
Discover some of the most common software bugs that businesses are struggling with and unlock effective strategies to overcome them.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,357 posts.
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Using Go Modules
An introduction to the basic operations needed to get started with Go modules.
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ML From Scratch, Part 1: Linear Regression
To kick off this series, will start with something simple yet foundational: linear regression via ordinary least squares. While not particularly exciting, linear regression finds widespread use both as a standalone learning algorithm and as a building block in more advanced learning algorithms.
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Solid Principles: A Software Developer’s Framework to Robust, Maintainable Code
The SOLID principles are a set of software design principles that teach us how we can structure our functions and classes to be as robust, maintainable and flexible as possible.
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Debuggers Suck
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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How Bash Completion Works
Ever wondered how Bash completion works? In this first article on the topic, we’ll look at how it works under the hood.
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Go Creeping In
I’ve seen the inside of the Google and Amazon tech stacks. There are common threads that run through them and also, I bet, through most BigTechCos. Here and there down the stack is a lot of C++ and vestigial remnants from earlier days, Perl or PHP or whatever. Out in front of humans, of course, JS. But in between…
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TypeScript 3.6
Today we're happy to announce the availability of TypeScript 3.6! For those unfamiliar, TypeScript is a language that builds on JavaScript by adding
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Go 1.12 Released
Go 1.12 adds opt-in TLS 1.3, improved modules, and more.
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Ionic React
Today we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Ionic React, a native React version of Ionic Framework that makes it easy to build apps for iOS, Android, Desktop, and the web as a Progressive Web App. All with one code base, standard React development patterns, and using the standard react-dom library and…
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Why Const Doesn't Make C Code Faster
In a post a few months back I said it’s a popular myth that const is helpful for enabling compiler optimisations in C and C++ . I figured I should explain that one, especially because I used to believe it was obviously true, myself. I’ll start off with some theory and artificial examples, then I’ll do some experiments…
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Announcing Building Git
In 2017, I wrote a series of articles about diff and merge algorithms, and promised that one day they would form part of a book about the Git version control system. In 2018 I didn’t write anything at all on this blog, and that’s because I was writing that book.
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To Message Bus or Not: Distributed Systems Design (2017)
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A personal story about 10× development
During the last few days there has been an ongoing Twitter storm about 10× developers. And like all the ones before it (and all the future o...
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Composable multi-threaded parallelism in Julia
Software performance depends more and more on exploiting multiple processor cores....
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Learning Parser Combinators with Rust
This article teaches the fundamentals of parser combinators to people who are already Rust programmers. It assumes no other knowledge, and will explain everything that isn't directly related to Rust, as well as a few of the more unexpected aspects of using Rust for this purpose. It will not teach you Rust if you don't…
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Python built-ins worth learning
Update: You can find a newer version of this article on Python Morsels. In every Intro to Python class I teach, there’s always at least one “how...
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PHP 7.4
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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RISC-V OS Using Rust: Memory Management Unit
From the operating system's point of view, we have a large pool of memory from some starting address to some ending address. We can use our linker script (the virt.lds file) to provide us symbols representing the address of the starting and ending points.
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What Is Good About Haskell?
Update 5/10/2019: check the bottom of this post for some links to comments and discussion.
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Algorithm No One Knows About (2016)
Here’s a program roughly 0% of programmers know how to write: generate a list of random tweets, without duplication. You may think you know how to do this, but you almost assuredly don’…