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How many keywords I can fit into a single C# expression?
As I was playing few days ago with “yield return await“ I got an idea to try fit as much “keywords” as possible into one “expression”. I mean as much blue words (in Visual Studio’s default colors) as possible together (not separated by semicolon, comma, colon, bracket, etc.).
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Sysop Chat
Back in mid-90s before anyone I knew had an Internet connection, a few of us had modems and would use them to call bulletin board systems via the phone line. On these systems what to me seemed the main thing was discussions and chat. For the first time I could talk to other like-minded people, and just being able to…
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Cargo's next few years
The Cargo team have been thinking about and discussing long-term plans for Cargo. In this post I'll talk about what we hope Cargo will look like around the time of the next edition (assuming there is another edition and that it happens in about three years, neither of which is
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MakeCode Arcade: Retro Gaming, Modern Programming
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AdaCore Joins the RISC-V Foundation to Provide C and Ada Compilation Support
GNAT Pro and GNAT Community toolchains available both for professionals and hobbyists NEW YORK and PARIS, January 29, 2019 - AdaCore today announced its…
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Deep Learning from Scratch to GPU: CUDA and OpenCL
We generalize the network code and run it on the GPU. On an Nvidia GPU with CUDA, and on an AMD GPU with OpenCL. Even more - we mix both CUDA and OpenCL, jus...
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Natural Language in Python Using SpaCy: An Introduction
Deep dive into python spacy with code examples, real-world applications, and expert insights for data science practitioners.
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Perl 6's given: switch on steroids
Sometimes the best features of Perl — and even more so of Perl 6 — are found by asking yourself, “I wonder if this’ll work?” and then findin...
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The Fargate Illusion
I’ve been building a Kubernetes based platform at $work now for almost a year, and I’ve become a bit of a Kubernetes apologist. It’s true, I think the technology is
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Lightweight API Design in Swift
This week, let’s take a look at a few core language features that enable us to design really lightweight APIs in Swift, and how we can use them to make a feature or system much more capable through the power of composition.
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Making the obvious code fast (2016)
Jonathan Blow of “The Witness” fame likes to talk about just typing the obvious code first. Usually it will turnout to be fast enough. If it doesn’t, you c...
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Defeating Racket’s separate compilation guarantee
Being a self-described programming-language programming language is an ambitious goal. To preserve predictability while permitting linguistic extension, Racket comes equipped with a module system carefully designed to accommodate composable and compilable macros . One of the module system’s foundational properties is…
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Towards Reproducible Research with PyTorch Hub
Reproducibility is an essential requirement for many fields of research including those based on machine learning techniques. However, many machine learning publications are either not reproducible or are difficult to...
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New CSS Features in Firefox 68
Firefox 68 landed earlier this month with a bunch of CSS additions and changes. In this blog post Rachel Andrew takes a look at some of the things you can ...
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Using Broadway in an Elixir application
Discover how Broadway can help you create highly concurrent data processing pipelines in your Elixir app.
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The Cathedral and the Bizarre
Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles. Douglas Rushkoff
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What Is Idempotence?
Idempotence means duplicates don't matter. It means you can safely retry an operation with no issues. The classic example is the elevator button: you press it twice and it does not call two elevators. We explore why we would want that property in an email server.
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Lessons from Building Node Apps in Docker
Here are some tips and tricks I've learned for developing and deploying web applications written for node.js using Docker (2019 edition).
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