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You get C++... take that as you will.

Smalltalk? Interesting! May I ask what industry / product area you work in?

I'm surprised they used only a twin-engined aircraft for such a long flight.

Saving in developer salaries is the only tangible one. You could argue there is less context switching for developers between languages, but I’ve never actually heard that from som…

I think that originally, it was indeed supposed to be an optimizing virtual machine. IIRC, Lattner's PhD thesis might have been about it.

Thank you! Looks very interesting. As for working with LLVM codegen libraries, would you recommend anything beyond the official docs? I found that most books for this sort of thing…

This is super cool, thanks for sharing! Are there any books or other resources that you found helpful in learning and implementing Whack? I’m dabbling a little bit with PLs and wou…

If you need well-maintained mobile SDKs, Mapbox's pricing model is a lot more straightforward. If all you need is basic mapping on the web, OpenStreetMap is adequate.

"we once patched openssl to ignore client cert expiry because somebody forgot to create a process to update keys in the field and all the customer cars started falling offline beca…

I've been reading up quite a bit on distributed database and compute technologies like Spanner/MapReduce as well as some interesting blog posts on scaling out of Facebook/Twitter/N…

I've been reading up quite a bit on distributed database and compute technologies like Spanner/MapReduce as well as some interesting blog posts on scaling out of Facebook/Twitter/N…

I don't get the point of this article - why single out Google specifically, when a lot of tech companies (as the article notes) hire contractors? Furthermore, TVCs at Google can us…

For me, trying to implement an unbeatable tic tac toe game using the minimax strategy. I promised myself I wouldn’t look up any hints online outside the Wikipedia page on minimax. …

LinkedIn may be looking like a decent acquisition right now, but my god it feel awfully old to use, and I'm not sure how long the first-mover advantage will mitigate these shortcom…

I remember Angular 4 being a thing, so they skipped 3 and 5?

One of the problems I've noticed while using GraphQL (late last year) was that although there are 'officially supported' libraries in a number of languages, there isn't really feat…