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Famous Unsolved Codes: Kryptos
Elonka Dunin reviews the CIA Kryptos’ history, going over the parts that have been solved, and discussing efforts to crack the famous unsolved section, K4.
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Compiling Scala to LLVM
Geoff Reedy informs on the current status of a LLVM backend for the Scala compiler project he’s working on, detailing on its design and implementation.
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Scaling Scalability: Evolving Twitter Analytics
Dmitriy Ryaboy shares some of the lessons learned scaling Twitter’s analytics infrastructure: Data loves a schema, Make data sources discoverable, and Make costs visible.
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Monads for Normal People
Dustin Getz shows writing monads code explaining how they work and why they are useful.
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Information Rich Programming with F# 3.0
Donna Malayeri speaks on information rich programming with F# 3.0’s type providers and query expressions, explaining how type providers work under the hood.
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Rust
Dave Herman talks about Mozilla Rust and some of the features that make it safe, concurrent, and fast.
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How the Ancient Greeks Invented Programming
Matt Butcher explores the philosophical systems devised by Plato and Aristotle, showing how Plato laid the foundations for what is now OOP, while Aristotle’s dynamic model is at the core of FP.
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Postgres Demystified
Craig Kerstiens presents the history of Postgres, the basics of developing with Postgres, notes on its performance, and tips on querying it.
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Project Lambda in Java SE 8
Daniel Smith discusses Project Lambda including lambda expressions, default methods, and parallel collections to be soon part of Java SE 8.
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Big Data, Small Computers
Cliff Click discusses RAIN, H2O, JMM, Parallel Computation, Fork/Joins in the context of performing big data analysis on tons of commodity hardware.
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Get a Leg Up with Twitter Bootstrap
Howard Lewis Ship introduces and demoes some of the most interesting features of Twitter Bootstrap.
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Computer Architecture of the 1960’s
Carlton Mills reviews Algol 60, PL/360, BLISS, Algol W, PL/1, C and C++, considering that rediscovering Algol could solve many of today’s Internet virus attacks and common programming errors.
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