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Functional Tests as a Tree of Continuations (2010)

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By Evan Miller June 15, 2010 One of the most essential practices for maintaining the long-term...
By Evan Miller June 15, 2010 One of the most essential practices for maintaining the long-term quality of computer code is to write automated tests that ensure the program continues to act as expected, even when other people (including your future self) muck with it. Test code is often longer than the code that is b...
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How to Let Go of a Product You've Built with Passion

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There comes a time in every product manager’s journey when, after a period of significant success,...
There comes a time in every product manager’s journey when, after a period of significant success, it becomes clear that it’s time to move on. You’ve built a product you’re proud of, you understand it inside and out, and you’ve invested countless hours, energy, and decisions into its success.Then, something shifts. ...
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Why "Normal" Engineers Are the Key to Great Teams

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A version of this post originally appeared in Refactoring, a Substack offering advice for software engineers....
A version of this post originally appeared in Refactoring, a Substack offering advice for software engineers. Most of us have encountered a few software engineers who seem practically magician-like, a class apart from the rest of us in their ability to reason about complex mental models, leap to nonobvious yet elega...

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The Ancient Horsemen Who Created the Modern World

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The failure of the land value tax

worksinprogress.co

In the late nineteenth century, the ideas of American economist Henry George were popular around the...
In the late nineteenth century, the ideas of American economist Henry George were popular around the English-speaking world. His best-known work, Progress and Poverty, examined the importance of land in economics and proposed taxing land value as much as possible. It sold several million copies and was one of the be...
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An Attempt to Catch Up with JITs: The False Lead of Optimizing Inline Caches

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ℹ︎ Upcoming Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025 Aurore Poirier1 , Erven Rohou2 , and Manuel Serrano3...
ℹ︎ Upcoming Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025 Aurore Poirier1 , Erven Rohou2 , and Manuel Serrano3 The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming, 2025, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Article 6 Submission date: 2024-10-01 Publication date: 2025-02-15 DOI: https://doi.org/10.22152/programming-journal.org/2025/10/6 Full text: PD...
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The Lost Art of Logarithms

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Beware tech career advice from old heads – Jacob Kaplan-Moss

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If you’re new to tech – say, less than 5 years in the field – you...
If you’re new to tech – say, less than 5 years in the field – you should take career advice from people who’ve been in the industry more than 10-15 years with enormous skepticism.This includes me, and my advice! I try to keep my advice relevant by spending lots of time talking with and listening to people newer to t...
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Unraveling Time: A Deep Dive into TTD Instruction Emulation Bugs

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Written by: Dhanesh Kizhakkinan, Nino Isakovic This blog post presents an in-depth exploration of Microsoft's Time...
Written by: Dhanesh Kizhakkinan, Nino Isakovic This blog post presents an in-depth exploration of Microsoft's Time Travel Debugging (TTD) framework, a powerful record-and-replay debugging framework for Windows user-mode applications. TTD relies heavily on accurate CPU instruction emulation to faithfully replay progr...
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Xata Agent: AI agent expert in PostgreSQL

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Show HN: Bubbles, a vanilla JavaScript web game

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A Guide to In-Browser LLMs

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Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia, Ostrich in Ancient, Modern Times (1926)

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In the early 1920s, British archaeological excavator Ernest Mackay unearthed an egg at the Sumerian cemetery...
In the early 1920s, British archaeological excavator Ernest Mackay unearthed an egg at the Sumerian cemetery of Kish, in modern-day Iraq’s Babil Governate. One third of its top had been cut away, the shell roughly smoothed with a primitive sander. It seemed to serve as a kind of drinking cup. The bird, his team had ...
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A New Sudoku Layout with 81 Uniquely Shaped Cells

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March 12, 2025・5 minute readSomething productive finally came from my daily Sudoku habit: I invented a...
March 12, 2025・5 minute readSomething productive finally came from my daily Sudoku habit: I invented a new type of puzzle that I call “Cracked Sudoku”. You can play it here.It looks like cracked dirt, see?Even though it looks weird, the rules should feel familiar to Sudoku fans:Fill the cells with numbers 1-9 withou...
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Spark AI (YC W24) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Engineer in San Francisco

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AI-powered workflows for large-scale clean energySan Francisco, CA, USConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded...
AI-powered workflows for large-scale clean energySan Francisco, CA, USConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups.Apply to role › Spark is building an advanced AI research tool that helps energy developers build solar farms and battery plants. One of the biggest challenges in renewable energy is no...
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Honey Bunnies

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"Have Quotes About Salieri"

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IO Devices and Latency

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History of Maths for Beginners

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In the comments on my recent post on books on the history of maths Fernando Q....
In the comments on my recent post on books on the history of maths Fernando Q. Gouvêa jumped in to draw attention to the book Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others, which he coauthored with William P. Berlinghoff. I had not come across this book before, as I noted in my post I gave up readi...
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Older Americans Taking Blue-Collar Jobs, White-Collar Hiring Slowdown

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Using traditional ML and LLMs to analyze Executive Orders (1789 – 2025)

hyperarc.com

Executive orders have been making the news recently, but aside from basic counts and individual analysis,...
Executive orders have been making the news recently, but aside from basic counts and individual analysis, it’s been hard to make sense of the entirety of all 11,000 accessible documents — especially for numerical analysis and trending. Thankfully we have LLMs to help with that.We’ll be using an LLM’s “hidden state” ...
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Carbon-Negative Ironmaking Using Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil Gasification

charmindustrial.com

Steel is the backbone of modern industry, but America’s steel supply chain is heavily dependent on...
Steel is the backbone of modern industry, but America’s steel supply chain is heavily dependent on imports that leave jobs and industries vulnerable.The U.S. is the largest importer of steel in the world, meaning we send billions of dollars overseas while missing out on the opportunity to build a stronger, more resi...
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A platform where you can start working with the best Ukrainian tech companies

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Dodge Chargers Now Have Pop-Up Ads at Every Stoplight

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