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Two Hard Things (2009)
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things -- Phil Karlton (bonus variations on the page)
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JQuery is a monad
It’s said that every Haskell programmer writes their own monad tutorial, and with good reason: once you finally understand the definition and capabilities of a monad, you’ll be eager to…
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Finite State Entropy - A new breed of entropy coder
In compression theory, the entropy encoding stage is typically the last stage of a compression algorithm, the one where the gains from t...
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The C Programming Language: 4.10 (HP Lovecraft version)
C functions may be used recursively; that is, a function may call itself either directly or indirectly. Uninquiring souls may take this as just another peculiarity of those C folk, of whose ways their neighbours speak little to outsiders but much among themselves.
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A micro-manual for Lisp implemented in C
Recently I had to go through some code that uses the uIP TCP/IP stack, which reminded me, it has been a long time since I did something in C so I ended up spending the weekend implementing the 10 rules John McCarthy described in his paper A Micro-Manual for Lisp - not the whole Truth .
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I pushed 30 of my programming related projects to github
Hey everyone, I just pushed 30 of my projects to GitHub. I realized that all the projects were scattered across my blog and there was no central repository. So I took time to organize them, write documentation, and uploaded them to GitHub. I did all of these projects for fun and to learn better programming. You…
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Life in Text Mode
I primarily use Unix-based computers, mostly Linux. On those computers, I live in text mode. This entry is an attempt to document the software I find most useful to my text-mode guerrilla lifestyle. Included are links to the programs I rely on, links to alternative programs, and links to my config files. screen…
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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)
This post explains why Rust made sense for Discord to reimplement: how it was done, and the resulting performance improvements.
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Armin Ronacher: Collections in C
Using the C preprocessor to achive basic generic collection types.
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Presentation on the new Python GIL
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Git your act together
Explaining some things that I think would make using Git a bit more enjoyable when working in a team.
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Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part I: surround.vim
Hi all. I am starting a new article series called Vim Plugins You Should Know About. As the title suggests, this series is going to be about Vim plugins that you should know about and be using. The first article in this series will be about one of my favorite plugins called surround.vim. So what is surround.vim plugin?
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Distributed systems for fun and profit (free ebook)
git , Single page HTML , Kindle .mobi , PDF , .epub , HTML for printing , book cover .
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Anyone Interested in Articles on Using PyPy to Create New Languages?
I'm Tav, a 28-year old from London. I enjoy working on large-scale social, economic and technological systems.
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Building an HTML5 Drag & Drop File Uploader Using Sinatra and jQuery: Part 1
Upon setting out to build a Drag & Drop uploader, I first trawled the web for prior art. Blog posts, examples, any information that would lead me down
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