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Picking Apart the Crashing iOS String
So there’s yet another iOS text crash, where just looking at a particular string crashes iOS. Basically, if you put this string in any system text …
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 1,274 posts.
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The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
It's with sad hearts that we are announcing that search.cpan.org will be retired on the 25th of June 2018. Graham Barr originally wrote t...
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Dijkstra's in Disguise
You can find a PDF version of this blog post here . A weighted graph is a data structure consisting of some vertices and edges, and each...
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A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go
Proposing official support for package versioning in Go, using Go modules.
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My Favorite PostgreSQL Queries and Why They Matter
In today's data-driven world, data is valuable. Extracting insight, answering questions, and meaningful metrics from data by way of querying and data manipulation is an integral component of SQL in general. This blog presents a combination of 8 interesting, differing PostgreSQL queries or types of queries to explore…
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Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud
Announcing Go Cloud, for portable cloud programming with Go.
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Distributed architecture concepts I learned when building a large payment system
When building a large scale, highly available and distributed system, what architecture concepts do you need to use, in practice? In this post, I am summarizing ones I have found essential to learn and apply when building the payments system that powers Uber. This is a system with a load
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Falling in love with Rust
Let me preface this with an apology: this is a technology love story, and as such, it’s long, rambling, sentimental and personal. Also befitting a love story, it has a When Harry Met Sally feel to it, in that its origins are inauspicious…
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SQL Keys in Depth
The internet is full of dogmatic commandments for choosing and using keys in relational databases. At times it verges on a holy war: should you use natural or artificial keys? Auto-incrementing integers, UUIDs?
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How Google Code Search Worked: Regex Matching with a Trigram Index (2012)
In the summer of 2006, I was lucky enough to be an intern at Google. At the time, Google had an internal tool called gsearch that acted as if it ran grep over all the files in the Google source tree and printed the results. Of course, that implementation would be fairly slow, so what gsearch actually did was talk to a…
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Moving efficiently in the CLI
A cheatsheet for moving efficiently in the CLI!
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Designing very large JavaScript applications
Originally published on my blog Industrial Empathy.
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The Making of Underrun – A WebGL Shooter in 13kb of JavaScript
I participated in this year's js13kGames , a JavaScript game development competition with a file size limit of 13kb, including code, assets and everything else. My entry was Underrun , a twin stick shooter using WebGL.
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Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack
Ending Support for PHP
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Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor
A guide to how we built the CKEditor 5 architecture for collaborative editing from the ground up, by extending Operational Transformation concepts.
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Brushing up on operating systems and C programming
If you were like me in college, you first learned about the C programming language in an introductory computer science course. Then, perhaps you took a really hard course in operating systems. Then, y
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Inheritance Often Doesn't Make Sense
There are three different types of inheritance going on. Ontological inheritance is about specialisation: this thing is a specific variety of that thing (a football is a sphere and it has this radius) Abstract data type inheritance is about substitution: this thing behaves in all the ways that thing does and has this…
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How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes
This issue was publicly disclosed on the Homebrew blog at https://brew.sh/2018/08/05/security-incident-disclosure/
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Asciinema 2.0
News about asciinema development and new releases
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Why Create a New Unix Shell?
Please read this update instead: Why Create a New Unix Shell? (2021) . This page is obsolete!