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You Don't Need No @!#% Tests If You Are Knuth
Dick Lipton on Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP: Knuth began to explain how he wrote the first version of TeX. My faculty colleagues began to become more and more uncomfortable as Knuth spoke. The high level version of what he said was: I sat down and ... |
Mar 9, 2011 8:51:00 PM |
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JetBrains Is Working On IDE for Objective-C
(Via InfoQ.) Ann Oreshnikova: We have already unveiled some of our plans :-) Yes, an Objective-C IDE is already in the works and on its way to go public. We’re also giving a lot of consideration to C++. Brian was just talking about how XCode is not as ... |
Nov 29, 2010 11:23:00 PM |
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Java, Sun, Oracle, ...
This has been an eventful week in the tech world. Two events stood out: one is an upbeat look into the future—of PC-less computing/entertaini... |
Jan 29, 2010 8:16:34 AM |
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Relentless Reduction Of Complexity
[Note] I started this blog 7 days ago but didn't finish it on time. I'm finishing it up now. The current date will be November 13, 2009 starting from the next sentence. "Relentless reduction of complexity" is a phrase I picked up from Alex Payne's ... |
Nov 20, 2009 10:13:51 PM |
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Wednesday Java Quiz: Think You Understand Concurrency?
There is a war of words going on about simplicity vs. complexity among the pundit circles: Joel Spolsky: The Duct Tape Programmer Robert Martin: The Duct Tape Programmer, Echoes from the Stone Age Tim Bray: On Duct Tape Peter Seibel: Unit testing in ... |
Oct 7, 2009 8:05:02 AM |
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St. Louis λ-Lounge
The inaugural meeting of the St. Louis λ-Lounge was held at Appistry this evening. More than thirty people came. Alex Miller from Terracotta lead the opening discussion. Matthew Taylor from Spring Source showed two meta-programming techniques in ... |
Dec 4, 2008 11:28:27 PM |
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Friday Java Non-Quiz: Sharing An Obscure IDE Trick Day
If you couldn't tell from last weeks questions that I'm running out of legitimate Java quiz questions, I don't know how loudly I have to say it. Let's face it, Java is a pretty low-surprise language. Tedious maybe, but never mysterious. The contrast ... |
Oct 24, 2008 8:00:01 AM |
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The Next Big Thing: An Opinionated Google Search
(Tangential thoughts triggered by techno.blog("Dion").... |
Oct 16, 2008 1:56:29 PM |
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StackOverflow.com Goes Public
Abel Avram reporting on InfoQ: Stack Overflow, a web site for programming questions&answer... |
Sep 16, 2008 8:18:34 AM |
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Patterns Of Learning Through Languages
Code To Joy has ignited a debate on the topic of You Should Learn New Languages. The post is in response to a Gustavo Duarte post titled Language Dabbling Considered Wasteful, which was carried on InfoQ four days ago. As always, I claim that both sides ... |
May 13, 2008 12:32:26 PM |
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Friday Java Quiz: What's Your Favorite Java 7 Feature...
Like in past years, I'm following JavaOne from afar. All I have access to are the general sessions and attendee's blog reactions to specific sessions on JavaLobby, java.net, JavaBlogs, and StuffThatHappens. And on Tuesday's session, I heard Danny Coward ... |
May 9, 2008 8:05:19 AM |
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What Test Driven Won't Get Me
Thanks to Eric and Brian and other champions of test first development, I've been profitably writing unit tests and functional tests in various projects for more than seven years. Nowadays I wouldn't dare delivering anything without having thoroughly ... |
Apr 29, 2008 11:27:54 AM |
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Why Do We Have Hype Cycles
Ted Neward calls out DSL and functional programming as being the hypes du-jour: Interoperability Happens: Domain-specific languages are the new phrase of the moment, and its emotional context is being built as we speak. Functional languages will be ... |
Apr 16, 2008 8:19:04 AM |
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Question: Concurrent Programming On Dual-Core Machines
I just have a simple question for all you dual-core machine owners: Has owning and developing on a dual-core machine helped with your concurrent programming? Let me be specific: What would you miss the most, as a programmer who has to deal with ... |
Apr 10, 2008 8:08:54 AM |
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Friday C Quiz: Know Your Closures
You know what? This closure thing has gotten into my head. I know it's pointless and useless to think and talk about it all the time, but I can't help it. Well, my loss is your gain. And today's Friday quiz will take you all the way back to C. Yes, ... |
Apr 4, 2008 7:11:48 AM |
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Closures Comes To C++0x
Hurb Sutter: For me, easily the biggest news of the meeting was that we voted lambda functions and closures into C++0x. I think this will make STL algorithms an order of magnitude more usable, and it will be a great boon to concurrent code where it's ... |
Mar 30, 2008 8:30:06 AM |
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Fwd: Debugging native code with Hotspot and GDB
This is related to my past posts on Debugging Into JNI Code from 42 days ago. I haven't tried it yet. I'm blogging about it so that I don't lose the link or the tip. Roman Kennke: The last couple of hours I struggled to debug a segfault some JNI code ... |
Feb 29, 2008 6:57:49 AM |
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Dreaming Up Syntax For Function Types For BGGA Closures
Stephen Colebourne: Function types, or method types as FCM refers to them, are one of the most controversial features of closures. Is there an alternative that provides 80% of the power but in the style of Java? Stephen went on to derive an alternative ... |
Feb 21, 2008 9:44:57 AM |
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Mark Volkmann: An Introduction To ANTLR v3
Last Friday, Mark Volkmann presented a tutorial on ANTLR v3 at the OCI internal Java lunch. Since Mark has posted his presentation slides out on the internet, I did not take my usual amount of notes. For me, ANTLR has been something that I'm aware of ... |
Feb 18, 2008 8:43:09 PM |
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Friday Java Quiz: Know Your Closures
The closures are coming! The closures are coming!! The closures are coming!!! And don't let your baby cry out loud. To celebrate Java's entry into the closures era, today's Java quiz is about closures, specifically the BGGA closures. Will the following ... |
Feb 1, 2008 10:20:41 AM |