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Java 9: The State of the Module System

This document is slightly out of date. None of the fundamental concepts has changed but the requires public directive has been renamed to requires transitive , and several additional capabilities have been added. An update is in preparation and will be posted here when ready.

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Let’s Build a Web Server, Part 3

“We learn most when we have to invent” —Piaget In Part 2 you created a minimalistic WSGI server that could handle basic HTTP GET requests. And I asked you a question, “How can you make your server handle more than one request at a time?” In this article you will …

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Optimized Go gzip/zip packages, 30-50% faster

I have worked on optimizing the standard library deflate function, and I am happy to announce revised gzip/zip packages, that on x64 is about 30-50% faster with slightly improved compression. Project: https://github.com/klauspost/compress All packages are drop-in replacements for the standard libraries, so you can use…

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VW

Do you know the name Michael Horn ? He’s the CEO of Volkswagen of America . You know what’s going on with Volkswagen, right? Dieselgate? The fact that the software that controls the Diesel engine in some of their cars was specifically written to defeat emissions tests? Yeah, apparently that software could detect when…

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The Reasoned Lisper

Bridging Discrete and Continuous Logic in Automated Reasoning Systems In this article we will explore the connection between Functional Programming and reasoning. Functional Programming is often ad…

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Everyone has JavaScript, right?

These are by no means all the reasons why your JavaScript might fail to run even when you expected it to. Andy Bell has a great list over at piccalil.li of a handful of very realistic reasons JavaScript won’t be available . Check ’em out, and be prepared.