slashvar2701

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by slashvar2701 4y ago
When I need formated code in docs or slides, I use the copy/paste with style capability of browsers. It works from rendered content but also from IDE.
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by slashvar2701 6y ago
This kind of articles, sounds like a reminder that system programming is a fundamental knowledge for software engineers.
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by slashvar2701 6y ago
We were experimenting some rate limiting settings and the load balancer IP in front of the hn cluster wasn't excluded, both features haven't been mixed before (doesn't make much sense to rate limit a search cluster behind a l
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by slashvar2701 6y ago
That's a somewhat misleading wording for a classic rule of parallel algorithm: a thread is the owner of its computations. So, each actor own a group of cells and is the only one able to modify them. This highly simplifies most algorith
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by slashvar2701 7y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a software engineer working on the core search engine at algolia, but the opinions of this post are my own and not an official statement. Search is a hard job, and it's hard in many ways. The most obvious difficult
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by slashvar2701 8y ago
While I strongly support the idea that no one should write a generic allocator in production, writing it as an exercise is a very good idea. The article looks at lot like the tutorial I wrote a long time ago ... (Every now and then, I see m
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by slashvar2701 8y ago
Where I was teaching, we've started doing code review in classroom in basically the same spirit. The amount of students prevents us from real selection, instead we take exercises which failed tests (and that are not empty) and explain
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by slashvar2701 8y ago
No, that's the price of typo tolerance and search-as-you-type, until the user validate the query you have no way to distinguish between prefix and full word. Search-as-you-type is much more a guide during the search, it shows you a pre