There are a whole lot of strong opinions about ORM floating around the internet and elsewhere. When you see so many passionate, conflicting opinions in so many different threads, it’s a pretty clear sign you’re looking at a religious argument rather than a rational debate.
Where the top of the stack is on x86I’ve noticed more than once that some programmers are confused about the direction in which the stack grows on x86, and what "top of the stack" and "bottom of the stack" mean.
Stuff Michael Meeks is doingToday we released 3.6.0, checkout the new feature summary and release notes. As always a lot more has happened under the hood than can easily be addressed in the features page; so here are some of the behind-the-scenes bits and some of the unsung heros doing the vital, but more hard-to-see work.
Sorting and searching at the libraryEveryone knows how to sort an array, right? There’s a method for that. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work on real-world books.
Degrees and FreedomTo atone for last week’s violent outburst, I’m writing down my idea of a good math lesson here. I want to explain Euler’s formula, the cornerstone of multidimensional mathematics, and one of the truly beautiful ideas from history.
Why Software Engineering Is Not PoliticsA recent post by Steve Yegge has made quite a splash. The main thesis of his post is: Software engineering has its own political axis, ranging from conservative to liberal. Software engineering, like any other social enterprise, does have a political aspect, but I do not think this thesis is apt.
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Project Re: Brief Case Study1. Original Ad - A Classic Jingle In Coke’s example, their timeless “Hilltop” commercial spot provided fertile ground for re-imagination in a modern way, simply by focusing on the core message, “I’d like to buy the world a Coke.” 2.
All Your Base Are Belong To UsTL;DR – Parallel programming is hard enough with locks and interlocked memory access instructions. Don’t make it even harder by introducing subtle data races unprotected by locks into your programs.
The Gang of Four is wrong and you don't understand delegationThe Gang of Four got it wrong. Ruby’s standard library has it wrong. Rails has it wrong. Is it still wrong if everyone is doing it?
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.