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Exploratory Haskell (2015)
It doesn’t have to be so thought out.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,304 posts.
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Making Chrome on Windows Faster with PGO
Chrome is always looking for ways to speed up the web. Starting in Chrome 53, Chrome has started using Microsoft’s Profile Guided Optimizat...
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Embed, encode, attend, predict: the new deep learning formula for NLP models
Over the last six months, a powerful new neural network playbook has come together for Natural Language Processing. The new approach can be summarised as a simple four-step formula: embed, encode, attend, predict. This post explains the components of this new approach, and shows how they're put together in two recent…
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Dissecting a spammer's spam script
Let's dissect a PHP spam script and find out how spammers send spam messages and how they have tried to obfuscate the actual code they use.
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Fixing JSON
I’ve edited a couple of the JSON RFCs, and am working on the design of a fairly complex DSL, so I think I can claim to have dug deeper in the JSON mines than most. We can easily agree on what’s wrong with JSON, and I can’t help wondering if it’d be worth fixing it.
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Laws of Performant Software
Learning how to write performant code is hard. Here are a few simple laws that I hope will convey the core of the matter. I’m calling them…
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Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005)
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and occasional entrepreneur.
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Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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How to Crawl the Web Politely with Scrapy
How to crawl the web with Scrapy without harming websites. Here are a few tips for netizens who want to build polite and considerate web crawlers.
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Learning Exploitation with Offensive Computer Security 2.0
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JavaScript web apps considered valuable
Recalling best practices for web applications that make heavy use of client-side JavaScript.
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GitHub lock-in?
There has been a lot of noise recently on how GitHub is bad, and how developers should stop using it.
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From Java code to Java heap (2012)
The Java programming language is a high-level, object-oriented language. It is rapidly evolving across several fronts to simplify and accelerate development of modern applications.
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Faithful Elm and the Amazing Router
Building an Elm demo app to show how Elm can be used in a project.
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The SQL filter clause: selective aggregates
The FILTER clause extends aggregate functions (SUM, AVG, COUNT, etc.) with an additional WHERE clause. Databases not supporting FILTER can use CASE within the aggregate function instead.
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Show and Tell: Image captioning open sourced in TensorFlow
Posted by Chris Shallue, Software Engineer, Google Brain TeamIn 2014, research scientists on the Google Brain team trained a machine learning syste...
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The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer (2001)
Some time later, I came across Iavor’s "jokes" page, including a funny bit called “ The Evolution of a Programmer ” in which the traditional imperative "Hello, world" program is developed through several variations, from simple beginnings to a ridiculously complex extreme. A moment’s thought turned up the factorial…
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The limited value of a computer science education
I started programming at the age of 10 on my TI-82 graphing calculator. I loved video games as ...
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OpenSSL CVE-2016-0799: heap corruption via BIO_printf
There are a couple of issues with OpenSSL’s BIO_*printf() functions, defined in crypto/bio/b_print.c, that are set to be fixed in the forthcoming security release. The function that is primar…
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Package managers should be immutable, distributed and decentralized
I just came across an interesting post via Hacker News , from an author of several hundred NPM packages (some of which quite popular) that just removed all of his packages from NPM.
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Measuring GC latencies in Haskell, OCaml, Racket
James Fisher has a blog post on a case where GHC's runtime system imposed unpleasant latencies on their Haskell program: Low latency, large working set, and GHC's garbage collector: pick two of three The blog post proposes a very simple, synthetic benc...
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Automatic bug-repair system fixes 10 times as many errors as its predecessors
MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning system that can comb through repairs to open-source computer programs and learn their general properties, in order to produce new repairs for a different set of programs.
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An interactive way of blogging about JavaScript
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