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Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other knowledge workers?
This is quite a popular cartoon. I posted this in a comment on why programmers wear headphones a...
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,274 posts.
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How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018: NLL edition
Niko Matsakis recently blogged about the Rust compiler’s new borrow checker , which implements non-lexical lifetimes (NLL). The new borrow checker is a really nice improvement to Rust, because it accepts many sound programs that the old borrow checker rejected.
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Sketches of Elixir
Sketches of Elixir : Friends, I am now at least in this respect a rare breed: an Elixir programmer who has never written Ruby. I was never a professional Erlang programmer. I cut my teeth on Python
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Haxe: Cross-Platform Development's Best-Kept Secret
While the modern programming language Haxe is well-known in some circles, many developers have never heard of it. Yet since it first appeared in 2005, it's been battle-tested by its loyal---if rather quiet---following. It boasts a pragmatic and mature combination of features for development in business, gaming, and ...
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Questions to ask yourself when writing tests
Talk to yourself to make sure your tests help you achieve your aims
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Why writing a linked list in safe Rust is so damned hard
Before I start this post, let me preface it by saying that I’m not an experienced Rustacean by any means. The excellent foks at /r/rust gave a lot of helpful feedback and cleared up some misconceptions I had. Futher errata and corrections are appreciated. This post is aimed at helping other fledgling rust-learners…
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Promises are not neutral enough
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Recursive Common Table Expressions in Postgres
Common Table Expressions in PostgreSQL are a powerful SQL construct. You can think of CTEs as a view that is materialized only while the query is running. Recursive CTEs allow themselves to be called until some condition is met. This post from the Citus Data team explores how recursive CTEs work in Postgres.
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Ethereum programming for web developers
HappyFunCorp ships AI-enabled products and custom software for web, mobile, TV, and more. Trusted by leading startups and Fortune 500 clients since 2009.
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Learning to write programs that generate images
Through a human’s eyes, the world is much more than just the images reflected in our corneas. For example, when we look at a building and admire the intricacies of its design, we can appreciate the craftsmanship it requires. This ability to interpret objects through the tools that created them gives us a richer…
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SQL as an API language
Datasette (previously) is my open source tool for exploring and publishing structured data. There are a lot of ideas embedded in Datasette. I realized that I haven’t put many of …
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What the Four Color Theorem Can Teach Us About Writing Software
A visual exploration of what The Four Color Theorem can say about software complexity.
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How to dismantle a compiler bomb
You have heard of “zip bombs” (a tiny ZIP file that decompresses to multiple gigabytes) and “XML bombs” (small XML file abusing the entities to consume lots of memory), and …
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Lisp and Haskell (2017)
How I finally decided what is better (for me), Lisp or Haskell?
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Freezing Python’s Dependency Hell
A simpler solution for a complicated problem
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Is Cobol holding you hostage with Math?
Face it: nobody likes fractions, not even computers.
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Why Y? Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript
In this essay, after a brief review of the work we’ve already done on the Mockingbird, we’ll derive the Why Bird, known most famously as the Y Combinator . The why bird provides all the benefits of the mockingbird, but allows us to write more idiomatic JavaScript. We’ll see that one of the benefits of writing…
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Create React App 2.0: Babel 7, Sass, and More
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. Create React App 2.0 has been released today, and it brings a year’s worth of improvements in a single dependency update. While React itself doesn’t require any build dependencies, it can be challenging to write a complex app without a…
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C2rust vs. Corrode
A couple weeks ago, Galois and Immunant launched c2rust. Since I wrote one of the best-known C-to-Rust translation tools (Corrode), and since I worked for Ga...
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