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V8: a tale of two compilers
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 679 posts.
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How the Winning Tron Bot Works
[ Update 8/2/2011 : you can play against a dumbed-down Javascript version of the bot here .]
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Working with git? These aliases will save you hours
I was just watching a friend of mine work with git, and he'd always type all the git commands in full, like git status and git push. I realized that he must not be the only one to do so, so I decided to write this quick blog post and encourage everyone to create Huffman coded aliases for the most commonly used...
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Windows 8 Developer Preview is Live
Set up a development environment that works for you, build native Windows apps, and create AI-powered and agentic experiences with Windows.
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Skip Lists are Fascinating
Skip lists are a fascinating data structure: very simple, and yet have the same asymptotic efficiency as much more complicated AVL trees and red-black trees.
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Python, the Web and Little Things on my Mind
A bunch of things currently on my mind regarding web development with Python and future directions.
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Android Developer Income Report #10
Last month has been looking like some slow down in my income and traffic. Fortunately it was only temporary as it is getting better with each day now. Anyway I still made quite nice income and as u…
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MySQL Text vs. Varchar Performance
Starting with MySQL 5.0.3, the maximum field length for VARCHAR fields was increased from 255 characters to 65,535 characters. This is good news, as VARCHAR fields, as opposed to TEXT fields, are stored in-row for the MyISAM storage engine (InnoDB has different characteristics). TEXT and BLOB fields are not stored…
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Web development is just broken
No, really, there’s something deeply flawed with web development. And I’m not (just) talking browser incompatibilities, or Ruby vs. Java vs. PHP vs. anything else or about Flash or HTML…
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Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Lambdas in C
Today, I learned that gcc C has supported lambda functions since at least version 3.0.4. I wish I had known sooner.
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Low-Competition Niches In Retail Software
This is a guest post by Joannes Vermorel, founder of the Lokad Forecasting Service. Software developers seem to be herd animals. They like to stay very close to each other. As a result, the marketp…
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Sprite3D.js: a javascript library for 3D positionning
This page is slowly getting outdated. In my spare time, I've been working on a major syntax revision, Firefox compatibility issues and a new version of this page.
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A Healthy Diet For The Mind
I've been enjoying teaching Intelligent Systems again this semester. A big part of the fun is re-reading old papers. I had a lot of fun re-reading and thinking about the ideas in William Clancey 's classic paper, Heuristic Classification . Long-time readers may recall me mentioning this paper in a long-ago post about…
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Django and Python 3
About 18 months ago I blogged about Django and Python 3, I gave the official roadmap. Not a lot has changed since then unfortunately, we’ve dropped 2.3 entirely, 2.4 is on it’s way out, but there’s no 3.X support in core. One fun thing has changed though: I get to help set the roadmap, which is a) cool, b) means the…
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Racket 5.1 Released
_posted by Eli Barzilay_ Racket version 5.1 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/The most significant change in version 5.1 is a rewrite of the GUI library. Unix/X users will see the biggest difference with this change, because DrRacket and all R...
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Ewww, You Use PHP?
Browse how-to articles on starting, running, and marketing your business, plus thought-provoking podcasts and films to inspire your inner entrepreneur.
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Build a CMS, no forms allowed
You may have noticed that quite a lot is happening in the Midgard land. Nowadays Midgard2 itself is a generic content repository that can be used for both desktop and web applications. Midgard MVC is a generic web framework for PHP5 that can be used with Midgard2 or without it. And then there is Midgard Create, the…
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What’s New In Emacs 24
Part one of my annotated NEWS file for Emacs 24
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MapReduce for the Masses: Zero to Hadoop in 5 minutes with Common Crawl
Common Crawl aims to change the big data game with our repository of over 40 terabytes of high-quality web crawl information into the Amazon cloud, the net total of 5 billion crawled pages.
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The Go Programming Language turns two
Happy 2nd birthday, Go!
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