Showing posts with label general. Show all posts
Showing posts with label general. Show all posts
Thursday, August 7, 2025

programming by example

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Everyone is excited one way or another about the "vibe programming" with AI. Will it replace the professional programmers? In shor...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

BCPL, B, and C

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Have you ever wondered, what were the earlier BCPL and B languages? As it turns out, Bell Labs still hosts Dennis Ritchie's historic web...
Saturday, June 3, 2023

the first actual use of Triceps

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 I've recently got Triceps used for a real application, for the first time ever, after approximately 13 years. Not really a production u...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018

how to reinvent the bicycle 2

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I've been thinking more about the problem of teaching the engineering approach to problem solving , and I've decided to try using a...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

how to reinvent the bicycle

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I've been recently conducting some job interviews, and met a spate of junior engineer candidates with a similar issue: they could quickl...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

simplicity is in the eye of beholder

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I've been recently discussing a design with someone. We both wanted the design to be simple but disagreed about the details. Eventually ...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Comments and names

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I've read an opinion that if the names of the methods are self-explanatory, the comments describing these methods are not needed. Well...
Saturday, February 4, 2017

The mythical 10x programmer, or the silver bullet explained

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Recently I've been talking about some of the experiences from Aleri times when my interlocutor responded "so I guess you're one...
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Sunday, August 9, 2015

something old

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Hey, it turns out that the patent for the dynamic schema modification that I worked on back in the Aleri days got actually issued, way back ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

On simplicity

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Today someone brought to my attention the quote from http://blog.rongarret.info/2009/02/css-and-meaning-of-life.html : <<And then t...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

On performace of reading the unaligned data

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I've made a template that was supposed to optimize the reading of the unaligned data: template <typename T> T getUnaligned(cons...
Monday, May 27, 2013

snapshot 1.0.92 and the release plans

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I've released the new snapshot, 1.0.92, that contains all the most recent multithreading code. There is one more big example to go, and ...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

the Triead lifecycle

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Each Triead goes through a few stages in its life: declared defined constructed ready waited ready requested dead dead Note by th...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Triceps Multithreading Concepts

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The multithreading support has solidified to the point where I can start documenting it. The full description will have to wait until I fina...