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Category Archives: Erlang
Death of goroutines under control
Certainly one of the reasons why many people are attracted to the Go language is its first-class concurrency aspects. Features like communication channels, lightweight processes (goroutines), and proper scheduling of these are not only native to the language but are … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Design, Erlang, Go, Project, Snippet, Test
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Efficient algorithm for expanding circular buffers
Circular buffers are based on an algorithm well known by any developer who’s got past the “Hello world!” days. They offer a number of key characteristics with wide applicability such as constant and efficient memory use, efficient FIFO semantics, etc. … Continue reading
Introducing The Hacking Sandbox
When I started programming in Python long ago, one of the features which really hooked me up was the quality interactive interpreter offered with the language implementation. It was (and still is) a fantastic way to experiment with syntax, semantics, … Continue reading
Python has a GIL, and lots of complainers
I’ve just read a post by Brett Cannon where, basically, he complains about complainers. If you don’t know who Brett is, you’re probably not a heavy Python user. Brett is a very important Python core developer which has been around … Continue reading
Posted in Erlang, Go, Python
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Integrating IRC with LDAP and two-way SMSing
A bit of history I don’t know exactly why, but I’ve always enjoyed IRC bots. Perhaps it’s the fact that it emulates a person in an easy-to-program way, or maybe it’s about having a flexible and shared “command line” tool, … Continue reading