A little over a decade ago, there were some popular blogposts aboutwhether Ruby was an acceptableLisp or whether even Lisp was an acceptableLisp .Peter Norvig was also writing at the time introducing
FABIEN SANGLARD'S WEBSITE ABOUT EMAIL RSS DONATE May 2, 2020 A history of NVidia Stream Multiprocessor I spent last week-end getting accustomed to CUDA and SIMT programming. It was a prolific time end
Q&A How to Write Software With Mathematical Perfection May 17, 2022 Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines. Read Later
If you’ve ever wondered whether a life without work would be blissful, well, Lorie Kloda can confirm that it pretty much is. Kloda really likes her job as a university librarian in Montreal, but she s
Introduction I wrote and maintain zig-sqlite , a Zig package that wraps the SQLite C API. Its goals are to use Zig’s features to augment SQLite’s capabilities and provide a idiomatic Zig API. Why buil
” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life . S ilicon Valley has
” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life . The dirty secret of
The Steve Jobs Bias That’s Killing SaaS Startups. Published in Experience Stack · 4 min read · Feb 11, 2022 -- If you’re an ambitious founder, there’s a huge chance you might be a fan of Steve Jobs. M
In 2006, I moved to New York and started working for David Karp doing web development for various media companies . That fall, in a brief gap before starting a new client , David said that we were goi
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Listen to an audio version of this story For more audio from The Walrus, subscribe to AMI-audio podcasts on iTunes. A lthough my memory of the details is vague, I think the following happened when I w
With each major Python release, all the attention goes to the new language features: the walrus operator, dictionary merging, pattern matching. There is also a lot of writing about asyncio and typing
I've been using zig for ~4 months worth of side projects, including a toy text editor and an interpreter for a relational language . I've written ~10kloc. That's not nearly enough time to form a coher
Who’d have guessed it? Carles, the shadowy creator of Hipster Runoff, the most ‘relevant’ alt of 2007 and the Internet’s foremost exponent of scare quotes, was an idealist all along. Our antihero has
Before he was voted Hipster of the Decade , before he was coining musical subgenres and helping the New York Times understand "alt" culture , Carles was another mid-00s music blogger who just wanted t
Melee Island. Image Credit: Lucasfilm Games Ron Gilbert and Dave Grossman are returning to Monkey Island with (the appropriately named) Return to Monkey Island . The two worked together to make the or
A little more than a year after announcing the first version of its ultra-repairable, upgradeable notebook, Framework is launching the second-generation Framework Laptop. It’s meant to be substantiall
Created 17 May 2022, last updated 10 August 2023 This is a summary of what features appeared in which versions of Python.Items with a star were introduced with a __future__ import. The Python release
I don’t really know who Dustin Curtis is, but he blogs a lot, and those blog entries often end up onHacker News. Not too long ago, he wrote a blog post titled “The Best,” in which he explains that he
Conventionally we communicate programming ideas with talks, papers, and blog posts. But we can also communicate ideas with entire codebases. If someone finds a security exploit, she'll sometimes publi
// Tutorial // How To Set Up a Private Git Server on a VPS Published on August 2, 2013 By Brian Rogers Introduction This tutorial will show you how to set up a fully fledged Git server using SSH keys
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In the late nineteen-forties, Delmar Harder, a vice-president at Ford, popularized the term “automation”—a “nickname,” he said, for the increased mechanization at the company’s Detroit factory. Harder
Illustration: Derek Zheng Businessweek The Last of Lehman Brothers The bank whose collapse marked the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis is only mostly dead. These are the people attending to its
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