A certain article has been enjoying great publicity and appreciation lately. I found some claims it makes to be unfitting to my existing knowledge of garbage collection (not claiming it to be much) so I tried to find out who was in the wrong and looked into the topic at some depth.
JetBrains maakt Python-ontwikkelomgeving PyCharm opensourceDe firma JetBrains heeft de Python-ide PyCharm 3.0 in een opensource-editie vrijgegeven. JetBrains zal ook een commerciële versie van PyCharm aanbieden. Deze biedt met name gevorderde programmeurs een aantal geavanceerde features. JetBrains hoopt met de gratis community edition van PyCharm 3.
What I Learned as a Junior Developer Writing Tests for Legacy CodeI go to the gym and lift weights because I like the feeling of getting stronger and better. Two months ago, I started to feel a throbbing pain in my knees, yet I continued to go to the gym.
What the heck is going on with NIST’s cryptographic standard, SHA-3?UPDATE [2013-10-09]: The Keccak team provided me with a response to issues I raise in this post, arguing that some of what I say here is incorrect and misleading. In the interest of transparency, I'm reproducing their comments -- with their permission -- below this post.
HubSpot/vex · GitHubVex is a modern dialog library which is highly configurable, easily stylable, and gets out of the way. You'll love vex because it's tiny (6kb minified, 2kb minifed + gzipped), has a clear and simple API, works on mobile devices, and can be customized to match your style in seconds.
Lock-Free Writes in SQL Server 2014In 2012 it became possible to find commercial two-socket servers with 2 Terabytes of DRAM. With that kind of memory available, Microsoft felt that it was time to start seriously thinking about databases that held their working sets entirely in memory.
Inviting Spam with Open ArmsI have no fear of sharing my cell phone number and email address broadly and widely. I’ve been doing it for years. It invites spam; lot’s of spam. So what? Gmail filters it all for me, like magic. And I don’t answer calls from people I don’t know. It’s a solved problem.
Countdown.js Super simple countdowns.Normally, delete actions trigger a confirmation dialog. Like so: We're not huge fans of this. It assumes that the user is wrong, and it means an extra click for the user. We prefer to think the user is right (but still has the option to cancel). We thought up this fun new interaction:
How many tuple types are there in C#?In a recent StackOverflow question the poster asked about the difference between tupled and curried form of a function in F#. In F#, you can use pattern matching to easily define a function that takes a tuple as an argument.
Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched. Then, a miracle occurred.Stack Overflow officially launched on September 15, 2008. In five short years, you’ve answered over 5 million questions on more than 100 sites, and helped hundreds of millions of people find the answers they needed.
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.