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RubySpec is Reborn
A blog about ruby/spec.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,031 posts.
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Wolfram Language
Transcript of Stephen Wolfram's talk at SXSW 2015 on the present and future of computing: Wolfram Language, image recognition, language-design philosophy, tweetable programs, computational thinking for kids, natural language as input, symbolic programming, deployment, automation of programming, Internet of Things…
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Swift Resistance
I feel like every time I sit down to actually start using Swift, I'm constantly battling with the language. My latest challenge: creating a backing buffer of pixel data that will be rendered t…
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Singleton Pattern in Go
The Go Language growth has been phenomenal in the last few years, and is attracting language converts from all walks of life. There has been a lot articles recently about companies switching from Ruby, and experiencing the new world of Go and it’s parallel and concurrent approach to problems.
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FizzBuzz in Too Much Detail
I know. FizzBuzz has been done to death. But I want to use it as a familiar base upon which we can explore some of the common tradeoffs involved in writing and maintaining software. In this article, I’ll show multiple implementations of FizzBuzz, all designed to achieve different goals, and discuss the implications of…
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Catena: A time series storage engine written in Go
First, I suggest reading Baron’s “Time-Series Database Requirements” blog post to get some more context for this post. I read that and, as I usually do, had my mind set on low-level thoughts. I wrote the following comment:
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On Rust and Nim
I was recently contacted from a person I had never met before, asking for some comments on Nim and Rust. Since I have taken a little time to answer, I figured I might as well publish my thoughts.
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The “Web Application” Myth
The last few weeks were full of lots of great articles about an old topic: should things on the internet be dependent on JavaScript and…
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Indices Point Between Elements
If you’re familiar with nearly any mainstream programming language, and I asked you to draw a diagram of an array, the array indices, and the array elements, odds are good you’d produce a diagram something like this: In this post, I want to persuade you to replace that image, or, at least, to augment it with an…
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Dart 1.9
Asynchronous programming is everywhere – user interaction, network access, file I/O. Dart simplifies and enhances these scenarios with the...
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“Hello World” in assembly language on Linux
One of my side-projects this summer is to become minimally literate in assembly language. So I began by reading up a tutorial on the x86-64 and the Linux ABI .
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Jitterdämmerung
So, Windows 10 has just been released, and with it Ahead Of Time (AOT) compilation feature .NET native . Google also just recently introduc...
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Computer program fixes old code faster than expert engineers
Computer scientists at MIT have developed a program called Helium that can automatically revamp and fine-tune old code, without needing the original source, in a matter of hours or even minutes.
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The I-JSON Message Format
The Olde ASCII is at rfc7493.txt . I’ll put a nicely-formatted HTML version here as soon as I pull a few pieces together. This is really, really simple stuff and should be about as controversy-free as an RFC can be.
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SICP in Clojure
Personal blog of Wojtek Gawroński, a passionate software developer.
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The Plum-O-Meter: Weighing Plums Using 3D Touch in Swift
Here at FlexMonkey Towers, the ever beautiful Mrs FlexMonkey and I love to spend our Sunday mornings luxuriating in bed drinking Mimosa...