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Saturday, September 4, 2010
UNIX: stangeness with signals.
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Slava Pestov, an author of the language Factor, calls this blogspot post , "2 Things Every Unix Developer Should Know." I have to...
JavaScript: The Good and the Bad
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Here are some thoughts on JavaScript. I agree. Aside from a few blemishes, JavaScript is a beautiful, powerful language. It's always...
Monday, August 30, 2010
Linux: How strace works
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Here is a highly instructive article on the innards of strace , a Linux utility for tracing system calls in a process and its children. Th...
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Bug in Blogspot: Spaces after periods
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I just noticed a problem with the rendering at Blogspot. It is traditional to add 2 spaces after a period when typing (for the sake of type...
Friday, August 27, 2010
Python: Comprehension loop variables
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Python3 adds the nonlocal keyword, and alters list comprehensions to make their variables behave more like those in generator comprehensio...
"8 things I wish I knew before starting a business"
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Here are lessons for start-ups, from Don Rainey, a general partner at Grotech Ventures. Summary: Things take longer than you imagine. ...
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Giving F# another look
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Here is an interesting comparison among Haskell, Ocaml, and F# hashtable implementations. F# is starting to look very good. It used to b...
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