How Not to Write a Signal Handler

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Better Source Code Browsing With FreeBSD and Mozilla DXR

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Lately I've been reading about the design and implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (great book, you should read it). However I find browsing the source code quite painful. Using vim or emacs is fine for editing invidual files, but when you are…

Charles Plessy: Browsing debian-private via SSH

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I recently realised that one can browse the archives of debian-private via SSH. I find this a good compromise between subscription and ignorance. Here is for instance the command for November. ssh -t master.debian.org mutt -f /home/debian/archive/debian…

How shaving 0.001s from a function saved $400/mo on Amazon EC2

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Update 2014-11-26: so this old post hit the HN front page. Feel free to join the discussion over there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8661387. If premature optimisation is the root of all evil, then timely optimisation is clearly the sum of all…

PostgreSQL Hardware Performance Tuning (2010)

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PSQL is an object-relational database developed on the Internet by a group of developers spread across the globe. It is an open-source alternative to commercial databases like Oracle and Informix. PSQL was originally developed at the University of…

Why programming methodologies are pointless

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I’ve come to the conclusion that believing in idealisms is wrong. When I was in my first steps of learning Python, somehow I stumbled across a presentation by the name of Stop Writing Classes. I’m not even sure why I watched it. At the time I didn’t even…

Incremental merge for git

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Perform a merge between two branches incrementally. If conflicts are encountered, figure out exactly which pairs of commits conflict, and present the user with one pairwise conflict at a time for resolution. * Reduce the pain of resolving merge conflicts…

CSS Stats

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Go best practises

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I hacked my best friend

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