Tag: others
All the articles with the tag "others".
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Computers can't store numbers
Knowing a bit of math, and some set theory, and knowing how computers store numbers, I'm making this bold statement: Computers can't store most numbers. And by "most", I mean almost all numbers. So to make it even more engaging and/or enraging: Computers can't store numbers
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The Apple Farm Parable: Understanding Monitoring and Observability
In informal Albanian slang there's a saying. Whenever you want someone to explain a topic in the most simplistic terms, you ask them to "explain it using apples". We had a similar case in my Software Engineering class at UNYT last week, where students didn't totally comprehend the difference between monitoring and observability, not knowing where one ends and where the other begins. So as a good storyteller, if I do say so myself, I came up with the following parable.
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The experiment that was RLFO
If you've followed me for a while, which most likely is the reason why you're reading this, you are familiar with my RLFO newsletter. If not, RLFO (Ralph-o) was my Random Links Found Online newsletter; a newsletter on software and engineering and everything related to it, comprised of articles I found during my usual online scrolling on different platforms, read, and considered interesting enough to share with others.
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Iterators VS Generators: Go's latest YAGNI feature
A better example for Go's Iterators than what you've seen in the internet, and a comparison with the Generator Pattern
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LeMuR: a way to "ship your machine to customers"
When someone says "It works on my machine", the consensus achieved by the Internet Hive Mind is to reply with "we won't ship your machine to the client"... Ugh, computer nerds think they have a sense of humor. I am here to tell you that yes, we can ship your machine to the client. We've had that technology for years! And no, I'm not talking about containers, this tech is even older!
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Meet PinguL: A Programming Language I created
I took a Compiler Design course during my Masters. We were tasked to create a compiler for a subset of Java, they called it "MiniJava". It's somewhat of a "rite of passage" and funnily enough, for a lot of my peers, the course was their introduction to Finite State Automata and Regular Expressions. I was already a skilled RegEx craftsman at that point, and reading RegEx on a whiteboard was never something I appreciated... Suffice to say I skipped most of the classes. I remember understanding the idea of a Lexer, then dosing off during the Parsing lectures, and never being present for the AST part. So I did what the student version of me did best: I traded some other course's project for the Compiler Design project, never learned a thing, got a passing grade, and moved on with my life.