Best of 2017

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2017. 1,420 posts.

Software Engineering
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Research papers in the .NET source

This post is completely inspired by (or ‘copied from’ depending on your point of view) a recent post titled JAVA PAPERS (also see the HackerNews discussion). However, instead of looking at Java and the JVM, I’ll be looking at references to research papers in the .NET language, runtime and compiler source code.

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Functor-Oriented Programming

My style of Haskell programming has been evolving over the 15 years that I have been working with it. It is turning into something that I would like to call “functor oriented programming”. The traditional use of typed functional programming focuses on data types. One defines data types to model the data structures…

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.NET Core Image Processing

Image processing, and in particular image resizing, is a common requirement for web applications. As such, I wanted to paint a panorama of the options that exist for .NET Core to process images. For each option, I’ll give a code sample for image resizing, and I’ll outline interesting features. I’ll conclude with a…