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Coding Problems from Programming Job Interviews
Java Programming tutorials and Interview Questions, book and course recommendations from Udemy, Pluralsight, Coursera, edX etc
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,834 posts.
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C++ on Embedded Systems
Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.
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WxWidgets 3.2
After almost 9 years since the beginning of the last wxWidgets stable release series, the first release in the new stable 3.2 series is finally available on GitHub . You will find there archives with the library sources and documentation as well as binaries for the selected Windows compilers such as Microsoft Visual…
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Do large language models need all those layers?
Finding that 70% of attention heads and 20% of feed-forward networks can be excised with minimal effect on in-context learning suggests that large language models are undertrained.
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Individualized Spaced Repetition in Hierarchical Knowledge Structures
Spaced repetition is complicated in hierarchical bodies of knowledge, like mathematics, because repetitions on advanced topics should trickle down to update the repetition schedules of simpler topics that are implicitly practiced (while being discounted appropriately since these repetitions are often too early to…
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How to write X in both Python 3 and JavaScript
Python and JavaScript are two of the most popular programming languages . If you're a Python programmer learning JavaScript, or a JavaScript programmer learning Python, this handy cheat sheet might help you.
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27000 errors in the Tizen operating system
This article will demonstrate that during the development of large projects static analysis is not just a useful, but a completely necessary part of the development process. This article is the first...
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Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel (2004)
Nano How-To explaining how to setup a root file system with only emacs.
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Stop Piping Cats
AIX provides the highest level of performance, security, and reliability of any UNIX operating system.
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When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python
Some internet standards only support ASCII characters, but the world uses much more than the Latin alphabet. Thus, a mapping from Unicode to ASCII for use in domain names is required. NamePrep was...
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ClojureScript 1.10.844
We’re happy to announce a new release of ClojureScript. If you’re an existing user of ClojureScript please read over the following release notes carefully.
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Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)
First foray into the Zig programming language
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Adopting Microservices at Netflix
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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Julia is awesome, but..
Here's a language that gives near-C performance that feels like Python or Ruby with optional type annotations (that you can feed to one of two static analysis tools ) that has good support for macros plus decent-ish support for FP, plus a lot more. What's not to like? I'm mostly not going to talk about how great Julia…
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Two years of production Go at CloudFlare
Almost two years ago CloudFlare started working with Go. What started as an experiment on one network and concurrency heavy project has turned into full, production use of Go for multiple services.
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Advice for Operating a Public-Facing API
I've been operating Pushover 's public-facing API for over a decade now and I thought I'd pass on some advice for those creating a new API.
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Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line
We can use the `createWebArchiveData` method on `WKWebView` to write a Swift script that creates Safari webarchive files.
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The poor, misunderstood innerText
Few things are as misunderstood and misused on the web as innerText property. That quirky, non-standard way of element's text retrieval, [introduced by Inter...
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The Art of Unix Programming
My fourth book.
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OT and CRDT trade-offs for Real-Time collaboration
What do OT (Operational Transformation) and CRDT (Conflict-free Replicated Data Type) really mean? And which one should you use in your real-time collaboration solution?
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RethinkDB 1.3 is out, now available on OS X
We’ve released RethinkDB 1.3 ( Metropolis ) which has a large number of enhancements, and adds support for OS X and several other platforms. As of the 1.3 release, the server can now be installed on the following platforms:
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Python C API, PyPy and the road into the future
tl;dr; We are willing to commercially support CPython C API in PyPy, so if you want pypy to support library X, get in touch with me at fij...
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Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite
Lately, there has been a lot of excitement around Durable Execution (DE) engines. The basic idea of DE is to take (potentially long-running) multi-step workflows, such as processing a purchase order …
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React Native: A year in review
Visit the post for more.
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Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas
Repository drawgent by yanndegat.tngl.sh on Tangled.
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Go Testing by Example [video]
I opened GopherCon Australia in early November with the talk “Go Testing By Example”. Being the first talk, there were some A/V issues, so I re-recorded it at home and have posted it here: