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The truth about Lisp (2006)
In which the truth about lisp is revealed, and some alternatives are enumerated.
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All Software is Legacy
In what may be judged in years to come as a moment of madness, I have volunteered to be the primary maintainer of the Perl CGI module (CGI.pm). For the non-technical readers of this post: CGI.pm is a few thousand lines of code that in the mid to late nineties, and even some years later, was helping many websites…
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Scala’s Types of Types
This blog post came into being after a few discussions about Types in Scala after some of JavaOne’s parties in 2013. After those discussions I figured that many questions are often repeated by different people, during their learning of Scala. I though that we didn’t have a full list of all tricks what we can to with…
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How to Name Clojure Functions
This is a guide on naming Clojure functions. There are exceptions to every rule. When you’re defining something based on natural language, there are more exceptions than rules. I break these rules more often than I follow them. This guide is just a starting point for thinking about how to name things.
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Emacs Bytecode Internals (2014)
Byte-code compilation is an underdocumented — and in the case of the recent lexical binding updates, undocumented — part of Emacs. Most users know that Elisp is usually compiled into a byte-code saved to .elc files, and that byte-code loads and runs faster than uncompiled Elisp. That’s all users really need to know…
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Inspecting C's qsort Through Animation
The C standard library includes a qsort() function for sorting arbitrary buffers given a comparator function. The name comes from its original Unix implementation, “quicker sort,” a variation of the well-known quicksort algorithm. The C standard doesn’t specify an algorithm, except to say that it may be unstable (C99…
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The Same User Interface Mistakes Over and Over
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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LeftPad and Go: can tooling help?
You’ve probably heard that story about NPM community and LeftPad package, that broke thousands JavaScript projects worldwide. There was a nice follow-up article titled “Have We Forget How To Program” and one guy even created left-pad.io - Left-Pad As A Service web service. People got a lot of fun discussing this story.
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Common definitions in chip design and production
Given how important chips are to modern society EVERYONE should understand and appreciate how they are made. Every field has its own set of terms, jargon, and acronyms (engineers love acronyms!). As you would expect, chip design is no different. If you are new to chip design, it might take you a few days to read…
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A Base Filesystem Project for macOS
OK9 là nền tảng giải trí và cá cược trực tuyến với hệ thống sản phẩm đa dạng, bao gồm thể thao, live casino, slot game, bắn cá, xổ số và game bài.
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Dijkstra's Algorithm
I was at SCNA the other day, and someone approached me about TDD and Dijkstra’s algorithm. He wondered if you could find a sequence of tests that would lead you to the algorithm. This sounded like a fun little exercise, so I decided to give it a try here.
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Uber's Move Away from PostgreSQL
Last week, a blog post by an Uber engineer explained why Uber chose to move from PostgreSQL to MySQL . This article was widely reported and...
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Strategic Scala Style: Principle of Least Power
The Scala language is large and complex, and it provides a variety of tools that a developer can use to do the same thing in a variety of ways. Given the range of possible solutions to every problem, how can a developer choose which one should be used? This is the first in a series of blog posts aiming to provide…
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Data Wrangling at Slack
For a company like Slack that strives to be as data-driven as possible, understanding how our users use our product is essential. The Data Engineering team at Slack works to provide an ecosystem to help people in the company quickly and easily answer questions about usage, so they can make better and data informed…
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State of the Haskell Ecosystem – February 2016
Update post for the State of the Haskell Ecosystem
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Two Years Open Source
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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The new and improved Programming Languages Zoo
It is my pleasure to announce the new and improved Programming languages Zoo , a potpourri of miniature but fully functioning programming language implementations. The new zoo has a decent web site, it is now hosted on GitHub , and the source code was cleaned up. Many thanks to Matija Pretnar for all the work.
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Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9
The Java programming language is one of the most popular languages today. Stay up to date with news, certifications, free learning resources, Java Magazine, events and much more
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Rebol vs. Lisp Macros
Author: HostileFork, Title: Rebol vs. Lisp Macros, Date: 19-Apr-2016, Length: 2220 words
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KDevelop 5.0.0 release
Almost two years after the release of KDevelop 4.7, we are happy to announce the immediate availability of KDevelop 5.0. KDevelop is an integrated development environment focusing on support of the C++, Python, PHP and JavaScript/QML programming languages. Many important changes and refactorings were done for version…
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New Edition of “Programming in Haskell” Now Available
An extensively updated and expanded version of the best-selling first edition. Now covers recent and more advanced features of Haskell.
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