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The Go Programming Language turns two
Happy 2nd birthday, Go!
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,844 posts.
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Types as axioms, or: playing god with static types
A common perspective is that types are restrictions . Static types restrict the set of values a variable may contain, capturing some subset of the space of “all possible values.” Under this worldview, a typechecker is sort of like an oracle, predicting which values will end up where when the program runs and making…
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TruffleRuby on the Substrate VM
Technical articles by Kevin Menard. Topics include Ruby, Java, machine learning, and general computing.
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GeoGuessing with Deep Learning
Applying photo geolocation estimation to the game of GeoGuessr.
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Recent efforts in V8 and DevTools for Node.js
This blog post highlights some of the recent efforts to make Node.js better supported in V8 and Chrome DevTools.
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Writing Your First Kernel Module (2019)
Kernel modules are code components that can be loaded and unloaded by the kernel when required. They are used to extend the functionality…
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Inside Ember.js FastBoot: Faking the DOM in Node
As we announced in the inaugural blog post in our Inside FastBoot series, we have begun working on giving Ember.js developers the ability to run their apps in Node.js. Once complete,...
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Nuts and Bolts of Multithreaded Programming (2011)
Access technologies that use data for modern code, machine learning, big data, analytics, networking, storage, servers, cloud, and more.
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Three Types of Data
In my work I’ve developed a mental framework related to data modeling, which has helped greatly both when coming up with a model and when making decisions down the road about how to use that model. Here I will establish three different categories of data in software: Constants, State, and Cached Values. By “data” I…
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Make your CLI demos a breeze with zero stress and zero mistakes
<p> Running live demos can be stressful. You know what you want to say and show. You prepare the CLI commands you want to run to best showcase what you...
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Algebraic effects, ownership, and borrowing
Algebraic Effects are a useful abstraction for reasoning about effectful programs by letting us leave the interpretation of these effects to callers. However, most existing literature discusses these in the context of a pure functional language with pervasive sharing of values. What restrictions would we need to…
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Implementing a Tor relay from scratch in golang (2015)
Update from the author, over a decade later: Go has improved and so have my own skills. The conclusion of this article was that Go isn't the right language for the task I gave it, and that's no longer true today, but also wasn't true when I wrote the article. This article is user error, not a language issue.
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Meta-analysis of three different notions of software complexity
Discussion on notions of software complexity as defined by Rich Hickey, John Ousterhout and Zach Tellman.
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DWARF as a Shared Reverse Engineering Format
Create DWARF debug information with the LIEF Extended DWARF editor and share reverse-engineered types and functions between Binary Ninja and Ghidra plugins.
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Ruby Fiber Scheduler
Ruby can work asynchronously with just a Fiber Scheduler and a couple built-in methods - no frameworks are required! It's easy to use, scales well, and has amazing performance benefits.
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August 2016 Lisp Game Jam Postmortem
The August 2016 Lisp Game Jam just wrapped up at the end of last week. I had some free time so I decided to take part, but I did something a bit different. Instead of making a new game I ported an existing one ( Silt ) to Common Lisp.
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A Faster Lexer in Go
It's been a while since I've last rewritten my favorite lexical analyzer :-) That post is the last in a series implementing a lexer for the TableGen language in a variety of programming languages, using multiple techniques. The last lexer written, in Go, was very fast indeed - processing 1 MiB of source in about 20…
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A Gentle Introduction to Data Compression
Joe Bertolami's portfolio and blog covering artificial intelligence, game development, computer graphics, data compression, and more.
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