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PyPy 1.9 Released
We're pleased to announce the 1.9 release of PyPy. This release brings mostly bugfixes, performance improvements, other small improvements ...
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 744 posts.
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Ruby on Rails Tutorial screencasts, 2nd edition
News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)
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E17 (Enlightenment) enters alpha after 12 years
Enlightenment is a Window Manager, Compositor and Minimal Desktop for Linux (the primary platform), BSD and any other compatible UNIX system. Source code releases are on our download page. Visit our contribute page for our latest source code repositories.
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The FFmpeg/Libav situation
One year and a half ago, an important part of FFmpeg developers decided to change the way the project was managed. This led to some kind of takeover , mainly to get rid of the old maintainer dictatorship, but also to change development methods, redefine objectives, etc. Then, for various reasons I will quickly…
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My Git Habits
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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A Tour of Go - Real examples of interfaces and concurrency
Last week, I gave a talk about Go at the Boston Google Developers Group meeting. There were some problems with the recording, so I have rerecorded the talk as a screencast and posted it on YouTube.
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PUT or POST: The REST of the Story
Web service designers have tried for some time now to correlate CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete) semantics with the Representational State Transfer (REST) verbs defined by the HTTP specif…
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Research in programming languages
Is there still research to be done in Programming Languages? This essay touches both on the topic of programming languages and on the nature of research work. I am mostly concerned in analyzing this question in the context of Academia, i.e. within the expectations of academic programs and research funding agencies…
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Nearly all binary search and merge sort implementations are broken (2006)
Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley's first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. ...
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What “Worse is Better vs The Right Thing” is really about
I thought about this one for a couple of years, then wrote it up, and left it untouched for another couple of years.
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PostgreSQL vs MySQL: an apples to oranges comparison
Every time we see people look at PostgreSQL and MySQL on the internet it falls into a flame war fast. I think that a large part of the pr...
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Git Tips And Workflows
Personal homepage and blog of Nicola Paolucci aka @durdn
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Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In
These are a few of the reasons why I have difficulty in participating in the StackOverflow community. I was once a very active user, but due to these reasons, and a few unstated, I am unable to participate in the community anymore. The Eternal September Issue. Many new users of StackOverflow...
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The Background Noise Was Louder than I Realized
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Corrupt App Store binaries crashing on launch
Update, July 6: This is now resolved . Go to the App Store and redownload any affected apps — they should show up in the Updates tab. Do not delete and reinstall: it’s no longer necessary and you may lose data in those apps.
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Backbone vs Ember
Ember and Backbone are both promising JavaScript frameworks but have completely different philosophies. In this post, I'll compare the two, both from a practical and philosophical perspective. I'll defer to real world experience with Backbone and SproutCore (Ember's predecessor), as well as basic experiments with…