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Ruby is beautiful (but I’m moving to Python)
The Ruby language is beautiful. And I think it deserves to break free from the Web. I think the future of Ruby is firmly stuck in Web development, though, so I’m going to invest in a new language for data analysis, at least for now. This is a look at the fantastic language I came to from Java and a look at a possible candidate. (Update: I’ve since written a followup.)Java to RubySix years ago, I added Ruby to my technical arsenal. I learned C++ and Java in high school, and I p...
Ruby,Java,Python,Comparison,Advantage,Ruby vs Python 2011-11-01 07:18:11
Learning Is More Important Than Knowing
Although DuckDuckGo's success is based more on ideology than technology, you'd have to be a pretty arrogant technologist to not appreciate and be impressed with what this small team (for a long time, 1 person) has accomplished. And while DuckDuckGo teaches us a number of valuable lessons (about business, and privacy), to me, the most important, is that good programmers should be measured by what they can learn, not what they already know. Gabriel Weinberg, DuckDuckGo's creator, has been wo...
Learning,Knowing,Google,DuckDuckGo 2012-04-18 07:17:53
+ operation on JavaScript objects
In JavaScript, there are two types of values: primitive and object. Primitives consist undefined, null, boolean, number and string. Other values such as array and function are objects. When applying + operation on different type of values, there would be three kinds of type conversion. Primitive conversion Number conversion String conversion There three type conversions have corresponding abstract operations in JavaScript: ToPrimitive(), ToNumber(), ToString(). For number additi...
JAVASCRIPT,PROGRAMMING 2018-10-12 22:19:12
Why PHP Was a Ghetto
Note: I wrote this over a month ago, but decided not to publish it until now.I was talking with the Co-founder of a pretty cool start-up in DUMBO the other day about why the non-PHP development world generally has such disdain for PHP and the community surrounding it. He brought up an interesting point that stuck with me, largely because I hadn’t heard it before.If you’re unaware of the usual beef most developers have with PHP, it tends to revolve around:Ug...
Good to Great Python reads
A colÂlecÂtion of python “must readsâ€:The Python yield keyÂword explainedPython’s super() conÂsidÂered super!UnderÂstandÂing Python DecoratorsWhat is a metaÂclass in Python?MetaÂclasses DemystifiedTry/Catch for valÂiÂdaÂtion or speed?Python (and Python C API): __new__ verÂsus __init__Python “self†keywordPython and the PrinÂciÂple of Least AstonishmentA CuriÂous Course on CorouÂtines and Concurr...
Python,Reference,eBook,Reading Material 2011-11-15 11:46:12
Basic Patterns for Everyday Programming
For most of you the patterns mentioned below should be nothing new. These are very basic stuff we slap into our code everyday and at times feels they are actually code smells than smart patterns. However, I've been doing some code reviewing lately and came across many code that lacks even these basic traits. So I thought of writing them down as a help for novice developers who would want to get a better grasp at these.These patterns are commonly applicable in most general purpose programming lan...
Pattern,Code,NULL,Function,JavaScript,Assign default value 2011-11-23 08:03:55
Some lovely software design quotes
Every time when I read technical books, I like reading the quote of a famous person at the start of a chapter(if any), usually they are very interesting. Here is a collection of famous quotes. Life’s too short to build something nobody wants – Ash Maurya, Running Lean author Give someone a program, you frustrate them for a day; teach them how to program, you frustrate them for a lifetime. – David Leinweber There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is...
Quote,Software design 2012-10-13 09:13:34
Read 10 new books from O'Reilly for free
Recently O'Reilly provided free access to some books. Some of them are even in early release status. Here we recommend 10 of them. 1ã€Mastering Perl 2ã€Git Pocket Guide 3ã€Vagrant: Up and Running 4ã€High Performance Browser Networking 5ã€802.11ac: A Survival Guide 6ã€Test-Driven Development with Python 7ã€Interactive Data Visualization for the Web 8ã€HTML5 Canvas 9ã€Programming JavaScript Applications 10ã€Agile Data Source : http://linu...
O'Reilly,Free book,Early release 2013-07-03 07:56:20
Why Dynamic Programming Languages Are Slow
In a statically typed language, the compiler knows the data-type of a variable and how to represent that. In a dynamically-typed language, it has to keep flag describing the actual type of the value of the variable, and the program has to perform a data-dependent branch on that value each time it manipulates a variable. It also has to look up all methods and operators on it. The knock-on effect of this on branching and data locality is lethal to general purpose runtime performance. T...
Dynamic language,Slow,Analysis 2012-03-26 15:33:11
Supervisord, God and Monit, which one to choose?
With the popularity of Docker, more and more service have been moved into docker containers and they are easy to build up and maintain for each atomic service(though it's a bit complex to maintain multiple docker containers which contain different service to form a complete solution). Ideally, each docker container should only contain one service which has only one running process. However, in reality there would be cases multiple processes would run in one single docker container and there is a...
DEVOPS,MONIT,SUPERVISORD,GOD,DOCKER 2017-11-25 12:28:11
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