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Awk is a very nice language with a very strange name. In this first article of a three-part series, Daniel Robbins will quickly get your awk programming skills up to speed. As the series progresses, more advanced topics will be covered, culminating with an advanced real-world awk application demo.
( Note : This is a copy of the original that used to live at http://www.bluetail.com/~joe/vol1/v1_oo.html )
We recently showed that, based on Stack Overflow question visits, Python has a claim to being the fastest-growing major programming language, and that it has become the most visited tag on Stack Overflow within high-income countries .
Lately I’ve been seeing lots of anecdotes from people trying to get into Rust who get really hung up on strings (&str, String, and their relationship). Beyond Rust’s usual challenges around ownership, there can be an added layer of frustration because strings are so easy in the great majority of languages. You just…
We talk about programming like it is about writing code, but the code ends up being less important than the architecture, and the architecture ends up being less important than social issues.
The last few days I spent some time digging into the recently announced KIP-1150 ("Diskless Kafka"), as well AutoMQ’s Kafka fork, tightly integrating Apache Kafka and object storage, such as S3. …
Learn programming languages like TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, SQL, and regular expressions. Interactive with real code examples.
Started by rafalp on Dec. 12, 2023 in the Roadmap category. 6 replies, last one from July 25, 2024.
I was playing with the nono agent sandboxing tool and it greeted me with a warning: PATH entries the sandbox can write to: ~/.local/bin/ which looked suspicious.
My thoughts on Rye and uv.
Ethical Hacking, Malware Analysis, Disinfection Techniques, Information Security, Pentesting Techniques and all related with Computer Security.
Reproducible builds configured in Lua
The Go module mirror and checksum database provide faster, verified downloads of your Go dependencies.
At Nile, we’re making it easier for companies to build world-class control planes for their infra SaaS products
The GIF (/ɡɪf/ GHIF) file is unfortunately the most popular and widespread form of exchanging animated content across the internet. Oh crap here’s one now A Pokémon I 3D modeled and animated called Shuppet, in 50fps When I am making animations, with the intent of ultimately becoming a GIF file on the internet, I…
So, there's this function. It's called a lot. More importantly, all those calls are on the critical path of a key user interaction. Let's talk about making it fast.
People always talk about "P vs NP" like P problems are easy and NP problems are hard. This is a useful day-to-day model but also an oversimplification....
Update (2017/06/12): Added BenchmarkDotNet blog post link. There are many exciting aspects to .NET Core (open source, cross platform, x-copy deployable, etc.) that have been covered in posts on this blog before. To me, though, one of the most exciting aspects of .NET Core is performance. There’s been a lot of…
Emacs Tales - A collection of unexpected stories involving emacs
LiveView's new Streams feature is set to be a game changer and yet easy to use at the same time. Chris McCord writes this dev blog post shining a light onto this new feature.
Introduction Companies ask for a GitHub profile. Recruiters ask for a GitHub profile. The question “Do you contribute to open-source?” is now one of the most common questions asked in p…
Today we're launching Capture the Flag: Web Edition, a security contest where you can try your hand at discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities in mock web applications.
oppiliappan's μsings
Prime Agent is our open-source, self-improving coding harness built around two abstractions: the Recursive Language Model (RLM) and the Continual Harness. With Opus 5, it achieves 95.5% on ARC-AGI-3, surpassing the reported human expert baseline.
