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Easy Scalable Text Rendering on the GPU
This post describes the text rendering algorithm I used on thetamath.com, a GPU-powered 2D equation renderer I wrote for fun last December…
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,304 posts.
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Atom 1.11
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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LL and LR in Context: Why Parsing Tools Are Hard (2013)
In my last blog entry LLand LR Parsing Demystified, we explored LL and LR parsers from ablack-box perspective. We arrived at a model for these parsers whereb...
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New Features in Ruby 2.4
Learn more about what’s new at Cognito, and what’s new in the world of identity verification, risk management, and compliance regulations.
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PyPy3 5.5.0 released
We're pleased to announce the release of PyPy3 v5.5.0. Coming four months after PyPy3.3 v5.2, it improves compatibility with Python 3.3 (3.3...
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JEP 295: Ahead-of-Time Compilation
Improve the start-up time of both small and large Java applications, with at most a limited impact on peak performance.
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Robin Hood Hashing should be the default hash table implementation (2013)
There’s a neat variation on open-addressing based hash tables called Robin Hood hashing . This technique isn’t very well-known, but it makes a huge practical difference because it both improves performance and space utilization compared to other “standard” hash tables (e.g. chaining ). It also eliminates the major…
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Advanced programming languages (2009)
Students often ask for a recommendation on what language they should learn next. If you're looking for a job in industry, my reply is to learn whatever is hot right now: C++, Java and C#--and probably Python, Ruby, PHP and Perl too.
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$15 Production Kubernetes Cluster on DigitalOcean
As you might already know, I’m into containers , static configuration and self-service infrastructures . Naturally, I love Kubernetes , which I consider the most promising cluster scheduler around.
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Verifying ARM processors against the official ARM specification
Researcher at Intel
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Lumo – A fast, standalone ClojureScript REPL that runs on Node.js and V8
One common complaint of Clojure REPLs is their [startup time](http://puredanger.github.io/tech.puredanger.com/2013/12/01/clj-problems/). Although that complaint is often somewhat unfounded (and related to tooling), it still takes the bare Clojure JAR about 1 second to start on new hardware…
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AWS Java documentation is fucked
Update: Eron Hennessey from Amazon has responded below with a new updated Java SDK that’s much easier to grok. The title of this article has since been changed accordingly. The problem…
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Memory management in C programs (2014)
One large difference between C and most other programming languages is that in C, you have to handle memory yourself rather than having a garbage collector do it for you. Ensuring that memory is allocated at the correct moment is not very difficult (and something that needs to be done manually in pretty much every…
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Why do we keep building rotten foundations?
APIs are like bones: sometimes you have to break them to mend them, and it fucking hurts. It’s not a perfect analogy, but it reflects an observation of (superficially) pragmatic behavioural t…
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Tips for Self-Learning Programming
Jorge Silva's personal blog on programming and software engineering