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Xplain edit / delete

An explanation of how X works -- using an X server written in Javascript for the examples!

by ats ... to cute-code graphics javascript x ... on 14 October 2016

Data-Oriented Design (Or Why You Might Be Shooting Yourself in The Foot With OOP) – Games from Within edit / delete

A student pointed me at this a couple of years ago -- cache-friendly programming from a games perspective.

by ats ... to ag0803 architecture cache games performance programming ... on 14 October 2016

C and C++ Style Guides edit / delete

"This is an archive of style guides for C and C++ code. Also archived here are some documents that discuss the value and utility of style guides."

by ats ... to c c++ programming style teaching ... on 14 October 2016

The Cryptopals Crypto Challenges edit / delete

"We give you problems to solve. They're derived from weaknesses in real-world systems and modern cryptographic constructions. We give you enough info to learn about the underlying crypto concepts yourself." These are really good.

by ats ... to crypto security teaching ... on 14 October 2016

How and Why Swiftype Moved from EC2 to Real Hardware - High Scalability - edit / delete

As it says...

by ats ... to cloud hosting performance ... on 14 October 2016

LCC1802 edit / delete

"The Rhinestone Compiler is the current version of LCC1802 - an Ansi C compiler for the RCA/Intersil 1802 microprocessor. It is a feature-complete compiler supporting 16 and 32 bit integers and 32 bit floating point." (LCC has a dodgy license, though, as I recall...)

by ats ... to 1802 c compiler retrocomputing ... on 14 October 2016

Wouter's Wiki : Lobster edit / delete

This is a really interesting language design -- in particular, it has precisely the syntax I was looking for. It's a pity that the type system is kind of half-arsed, and the standard implementation is pretty limited... I wonder if it'd be possible to throw this syntax on top of OCaml?

by ats ... to language-design lobster ... on 14 October 2016

Haskell's Type Classes: We Can Do Better – John A De Goes edit / delete

Reasons for wanting first-class typeclasses. Personally I'd just settle for having Haskell-style typeclasses in a language I could actually use for real work...

by ats ... to haskell language-design typeclass ... on 14 October 2016

CRIU edit / delete

"Using this tool, you can freeze a running application (or part of it) and checkpoint it as a collection of files on disk. You can then use the files to restore the application and run it exactly as it was during the time of freeze."

by ats ... to checkpoint linux software ... on 14 October 2016

WhyTheName - Debian Wiki edit / delete

"An IT-etymology/linuxguistics page for people wondering "how come the package yasysmand-cling has such a strange name?""

by ats ... to debian naming open-source software ... on 14 October 2016