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Static vs. dynamic languages: a literature review edit / delete
Metastudy of the effectiveness of static typing. Well worth reading. "The summary of the summary is that most studies find very small effects, if any. However, the studies probably don’t cover contexts you’re actually interested in"
by ats ... to language-design research software-engineering type-systems ... on 28 February 2016
"A space exploration and combat game similar to Escape Velocity". Or, to put it another way, a 2D version of Elite...
Open Rights Group - Responding to "Nothing to hide, Nothing to fear" edit / delete
A fairly short article with a number of excellent examples.
by ats ... to el0805 org privacy security ... on 28 February 2016
"So.... with a little time and a little Teensy microcontroller I can now record and display the assembler code running on the 6502 CPU." I have a student doing this as a project (for a different CPU) at the moment...
by ats ... to 6502 microcontroller retrocomputing ... on 28 February 2016
titus - Totally Isolated TLS Unwrapping Server edit / delete
This has some nice examples of good practice in privilege separation. (Pity it's written in C++!)
by ats ... to networking privilege-separation security software tls ... on 28 February 2016
derat/xsettingsd: Provides settings to X11 applications via the XSETTINGS specification edit / delete
"xsettingsd is a daemon that implements the XSETTINGS specification." I don't actually need this now, but if the GTK developers continue their programme of deliberately breaking other desktops then it might be useful...
The Website Obesity Crisis edit / delete
"This talk [is] about mostly-text sites that, for unfathomable reasons, are growing bigger with every passing year." Quite.
by ats ... to design efficiency web ... on 28 February 2016
Rayon: data parallelism in Rust - Baby Steps edit / delete
Safe fork-join parallelism in Rust through ownership types.
by ats ... to language-design ownership parallel programming rust type-systems ... on 28 February 2016
VisUAL - A highly visual ARM emulator edit / delete
"VisUAL has been developed as a cross-platform tool to make learning ARM Assembly language easier." From Imperial.
by ats ... to arm assembler programming teaching visualisation ... on 28 February 2016
The Pirate Book – The Pirate Book – A compilation of stories about sharing, distributing and experiencing cultural contents outside the boundaries of local economies, politics, or laws edit / delete
"This work offers a broad view on media piracy as well as a variety of comparative perspectives on recent issues and historical facts regarding piracy." Interesting stories.
by ats ... to history media piracy politics ... on 28 February 2016
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tasty by Adam Sampson.