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Ways to ship software
An open letter from a former Facebook and VMware engineering executive on how startups can best structure their release processes.
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 21,844 posts.
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Rr 4.0 Debugger Released with Reverse Execution
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust
And lived to tell the tale.
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Transducer: Composition, abstraction, performance (2018)
Transducer: Composition, Abstraction, Performance
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Using Go for Scalable Operating System Analytics
At Kolide, part of what we do is build a client-server system that facilitates the management of large, isolated installations of an open-source tool called osquery. While I’ve written and spoken about osquery in the past, in this post I want to focus on how we use Go to solve many of the challenges we face building…
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Deterministic simulation testing for async Rust
How S2 uses deterministic simulation testing for async Rust to find distributed-systems bugs before they reach production.
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SVG Jigsaw Generation in Clojure
Silly, terrible, no-good very-bad jigsaw puzzles. Featuring Voronoi diagrams, KD-trees, and Clojure.
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Require.js + Backbone.js = Robust Modular Application Development
Learn how Backbone.js applications are organized using modules, namespaces, reusable Views, and scalable frontend architecture patterns.
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I reverse engineered a motherboard
Wherein I looked into controlling the RGB header on my motherboard without any access to public documentation.
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Building a neural network in pure Lisp using only atoms and lists
A neural network written in pure Lisp without built-in numbers using only atoms and lists in SectorLISP, a 512-byte Lisp interpreter written by the authors of the SectorLISP project.
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PyPy IO improvements
Hello everyone! We've wrapped up the Warsaw sprint, so I would like to describe some branches which have been recently merged and which i...
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Exploring .NET Core platform intrinsics: Part 4 – Alignment and pipelining
You’ve implemented some of your performance critical code using the new platform intrinsics API. The code is now running 10x or even 100x faster than before, and you might think that it can’t get any faster. This post will show you some less obvious (but almost universally applicable) techniques for improving the…
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The Power of Lifetimes
The execution of a program unfolds over some interval of time. The lifetime of every temporary resource (e.g., variable or object) is the time span between that resource’s “creation” and “destruction”. This lifetime is wholly contained within the typically-longer lifetime of the program.
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Formal Methods and the Future of Programming
I’ve been telling people for the last 25 years that Jane Street as an organization was just not interested in formal methods.
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React 16: A look inside an API-compatible rewrite of our front end UI library
Visit the post for more.
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Obfuscated Erlang Competition Results
We build transformative solutions for the world’s most ambitious companies. We're experts at building massively scalable, distributed systems.
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Print Debugging Should Go Away
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Hyper 2, Electron based terminal
A terminal built on web technologies
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PowerShell Inventor Jeffrey Snover Interview
We had a great talk with Jeffrey Snover, Microsoft Technical Fellow and CTO for Modern Workforce Transformation. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell. Enjoy full interview on our website.
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