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The greatest bug I never fixed (2010)
A look behind the scenes at makandra GmbH: our expertise, our insights, and the people who make it happen.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,013 posts.
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As much Stack Overflow as possible in 4096 bytes
Fitting as much Stack Overflow as possible into 4096 bytes
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A Fresh Look at Rust
An updated report on my experience with Rust and where I think it might be going.
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The descent to C
This article attempts to give a sort of ‘orientation tour’ for people whose previous programming background is in high (ish) level languages such as Java or Python, and who now find that they need or want to learn C.
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Saying goodbye to Python
This post is long overdue; this isn’t a declaration of intent (any intent was long ago made real), just my reflection about my own path. I left the Python world a long time ago but I never took a chance to say goodbye.
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A Hacker’s Guide to Git
A Hacker’s Guide to Git is now available as an e-book. You can purchase it on Leanpub. Introduction Git is currently the most widely used version control system in the world, mostly thanks to GitHub. By that measure, I’d argue that it’s a...
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How I Start: Haskell
My name is Chris. I teach Haskell to people that are new to programming and as well as long-time coders. Haskell is a general purpose programming language that is most useful to mere mortals.
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Pain we forgot
Much of the pain in programming is taken for granted. After years of repetition it fades into the background and is forgotten. The first step in making programming easier is to be concious of what makes it hard. So let’s put ourselves in the shoes of a smart but inexperienced end user trying to build, test and…
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Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough
This particular blog post was sitting on my mind for a long time. I don’t want to start a flame war, but at the same time I also don’t wish for Linux community to build and grow upon ad-hoc solutions that we’ve accumulated over the last 30 years to the packaging and deployment problems. History of Linux automation…
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Scaling Mercurial at Facebook
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Announcing Project Zero
Posted by Chris Evans, Researcher Herder Security is a top priority for Google. We've invested a lot in making our products secure, incl...
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Algorithms on Khan Academy – a collaboration with Dartmouth College professors
What is an algorithm ? It’s a sequence of steps that you follow to solve a problem. In everyday life, you might have an algorithm for hangin...
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To close or not to close – Void HTML elements
A blog about web and frontend development, design, 3d and music — by Mat Simon.
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Go 1.3 is released
Go 1.3 adds better performance, static analysis in godoc, and more.
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Farewell Node.js
Leaving node.js land
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Intel's "cripple AMD" function (2009)
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Django 1.7 Released
Posted by James Bennett on Sept. 2, 2014
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Rust and Go
I’ve been spending a bit of my time playing around with new languages — in particular, Rust has captured my imagination. The bulk of the…
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Videogrep: Automatic Supercuts with Python
Videogrep is a python script that searches through dialog in videos and then cuts together a new video based on what it finds. Basically, it’s a command-line “supercut” generator. The code is here on github .
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The Several Million Dollar Bug
In case you landed here without any context and have no idea who I am or what this article is about this article should give you some background.
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Announcing a specification for PHP
The PHP language has been around for over 20 years and is clearly one of the most popular programming languages in the world. PHP is definitely the lingua-franca of the internet for server-side web programming .
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