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by dmit 7y ago
Since we're sharing anecdotes... I also have a gmail address with a fairly common name. 1) I've received a bunch of Fw: emails from an Australian person over the years that I ignored as spam. Until he sent a very personal one, inv
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by dmit 7y ago
In a perfect world "maintaining discipline" is indeed the correct solution, but my experience tells me that humans cannot be relied upon to do that. Some individual humans can, but not the collective whole. The discipline has to c
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Reader/Reader blocking in reader/writer locks(blog.nelhage.com)
43 points by dmit 7y ago|7 comments
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True Surprise(docbastard.net)
193 points by dmit 7y ago|27 comments
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by dmit 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Compares_2_U
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by dmit 8y ago
I'm pretty sure Jeremy Ashkenas has commented before on how he's satisfied with the role CoffeeScript ended up playing. Don't know if there are full-fledged articles on the topic, and I can't tag him here, but if you&#x2
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by dmit 8y ago
To be fair to CoffeeScript, it introduced and popularized features that eventually made it to the EcmaScript standard. You could make a case for it being the kick that started the wave of improvements to JS that we've seen in the past
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by dmit 8y ago
Same, except I favor the Atom protocol because from previous research (performed a long time ago, to be fair) it was strictly an improvement over RSS in every regard. There is a highly-rated extension to automate this, but I've grown t
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by dmit 8y ago
Casey did mention that Fabian and cbloom know the math behind this and might elaborate on the topic on their own blogs later.
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Stable Filtering – Part 2(caseymuratori.com)
28 points by dmit 8y ago|2 comments
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by dmit 8y ago
Please note that this guide mostly deals with optimizing for network transfer size. As is almost always the case with optimization, there are multiple axes you should be aware of. In this case, a lot of the techniques presented negatively i
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by dmit 8y ago
The source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/generative-music/generative.fm
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Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music(generative.fm)
735 points by dmit 8y ago|102 comments
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by dmit 8y ago
For pure typing latency, here's a fairly rigorous one from three years ago: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/ It doesn't include VS Code, but it does describe the benchmarking process and the provi
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What We Got Wrong: Lessons from the Birth of Microservices(youtube.com)
10 points by dmit 8y ago|0 comments
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The Unscalable, Deadlock-Prone, Thread Pool(pvk.ca)
122 points by dmit 8y ago|45 comments
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An Encoded Tree Traversal(research.swtch.com)
65 points by dmit 8y ago|7 comments
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Explaining Code Using ASCII Art(blog.regehr.org)
209 points by dmit 8y ago|47 comments
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Fast Perfect Hashing(jandrewrogers.com)
138 points by dmit 8y ago|41 comments
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by dmit 8y ago
For exactly this reason browsers don’t send a Referer header when an HTTP request is made from an HTTPS page. (Nor for any kind of request made from a local file.)
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ColorTool – change Windows console color scheme (iTerm2 themes supported)(github.com)
2 points by dmit 8y ago|0 comments
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by dmit 8y ago
What do you mean? I'm a tech-savvy person, so I checked that the lock was green before I submitted my financial credentials.
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Griping about Go(https.www.google.com.tedunangst.com)
63 points by dmit 8y ago|86 comments
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Significant visualisation developments: July to December 2018(visualisingdata.com)
1 points by dmit 8y ago|0 comments
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by dmit 8y ago
1) That's not his name. 2) "Things were better before so let's revert to where we were five years ago" is a terrible strategy.
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Our Software Dependency Problem(research.swtch.com)
405 points by dmit 8y ago|171 comments
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A relatively simple Datalog engine(github.com)
207 points by dmit 8y ago|28 comments
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by dmit 9y ago
Something like what was discussed in this thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14119024
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Brilliant Jerks in Engineering(brendangregg.com)
267 points by dmit 9y ago|231 comments
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by dmit 9y ago
Normal maps are a technique used in 3D graphics to emulate surface details on a mesh (3D model). Think of a brick house - if you want to render a detailed close-up view of the wall, the naive approach would be to include the seams between i

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