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How to compile with continuations
In terms of unreasonable effectiveness, the transformation to continuation-passing style (CPS) ranks with the Y combinator .
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The Man Who Invented Scotch Tape
How a scrappy "misfit" engineer with no college education revolutionized the world of tape.
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The Generalist – On Alexander Grothendieck
I never met Alexander Grothendieck. I was never in the same room with him. I never even saw him from a distance. But whenever I think about math — which is to say, pretty much every day ̵…
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The Entrepreneur Who Captivated Me
On January 12th, 2012 I went to Airbnb to give a talk about Storm at their tech talk series. It wa...
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Making of “Introduction to A*”
(Warning: these notes are rough – the main page is here and these are some notes I wrote for a few colleagues and then I kept adding to it until it became a longer page)
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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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Why is Netflix Buffering? Dispelling the Congestion Myth
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Textbooks Prices: Out of Control
This blog provides updated forecasts and comments on current weather or other topics
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Goodbye-Barnes-and-Noble
I've read books on electronic devices for many years now; the convenience of having a huge library with me while traveling makes up for the lower quality of the presentation. I've read books on a selection of Palm devices, an old OpenInkpot compatible ereader, my phone and, most recently, on my Kobo Aura .
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Ghost 0.4 Released
Today we are releasing Ghost 0.4 - the next minor release of the Ghost blogging platform. With a great deal of shiny new things. This release represents a total of 374 commits across 178 issues from 88 incredible contributors all over the world. It's a cleaner, faster, more sophisticated
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What is type safety?
Type safety is the property of a programming language, ensuring its programs are well defined and creating a foundation for reasoning.
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I Love Julia
For the past half year I’ve been exploring Julia in piecemeal fashion. It’s a language that does not conform to the traditional notions of programming. Julia...
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A free, complete guide to Technical Analysis
Learn technical analysis - candlestick patterns, support & resistance, moving averages, RSI, MACD, Fibonacci retracements, Dow theory, and chart analysis.
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Editing binaries: easier than it sounds
Editing binaries is a trick that comes in handy a few times a year. You don't often need to, but when you do, there's no alternative. When I mention patching binaries, I get one of two reactions: complete shock or no reaction at all. As far as I can tell, this is because most people have one of these two models of the…
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Introducing Transport Layer Security in pure OCaml
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Go back in time with Street View
Travel to the past to see how a place has changed over the years by exploring Street View imagery.
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How I Got the First Paying Customers for My Startup
I launched on a Tuesday and had 3 paying customers by the following Friday. That’s a small win for a young startup — here’s how it happened.
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Porting 600k Map Views to OpenStreetMap/MapBox
This past week, we here at DoubleMap made a big change that users probably won’t notice. Instead of Google Maps, all of our public maps are …
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Live Google transit directions change the value of transit
On my recent wanderings in Europe, I became quite enamoured by Google's latest revision of transit directions. Google has had transit directions for some time, but they have recently improved them, and linked them in more cities to live data about where transit vehicles actually are. The result not a mere incremental…
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How I rebuilt "Flying Toasters" using only CSS animations
One of my favorite classic screensavers from back in the day was “Flying Toasters,” a part of the After Dark bundle.
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How Stacks Are Handled in Go
At CloudFlare, We use Go for a variety of services and applications. In this blog post, We're going to take a deep dive into some of the technical intricacies of Go.