Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames: Control Characters (such as Newline), Leading Dashes, and Other Problems (2009, 2024)
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Pallene: a statically typed ahead-of-time compiled sister language to Lua, with a focus on performance
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Senior devs aren’t just faster, they can dodge problems juniors are forced to solve
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New Life Hack: Using LLMs to Generate Constraint Solver Programs for Personal Logistics Tasks
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What Problems are Truly Technical, not Social?
Most “tech” problems (and solutions) seem social, with e.g. most newer startups relying on internal connections to gain real world adoption, otherwise blocked due to institutional apathy and bad regulations (sms 2fa, hospital faxes…)
A recent (unlocated) poll asked a similar question: “what percent of workers in the software industry are employed writing programs that should not exist?” While we do have NP-hard problems, politically hard problems like avoi … ⌘ Read more
What are you doing this weekend?
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback.
Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too! ⌘ Read more
A coherent European/non-US cloud strategy: building railroads for the cloud economy
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