Dave's Links

This is just my reblogging platform, for links I want to remember

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Code Watch: The five essential rules of software project management - SD Times

Avoiding silver-bullet thinking, remembering that development is mostly about confusion, and three other rules for getting ahead of other project managers

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Opening a cmd window in the current working directory from cygwin

Opening a cmd window in the current working directory from cygwin

With the newer version of cygwin I am running, there are a few flaws. These mainly have to do with how it interacts with printing and user input from windows executables.

e.g.

The windows python prompt doesn’t display. See here for more details.

Using mercurial, it can’t prompt me for a password. It comes up as abort: http authorization required

There are a few little niggly things like this…

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Why your code is so hard to understand

“What the hell was I thinking?!?”

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The Pyston Blog

(by Kevin Modzelewski)

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Mental cryptography and good passwords

Good passwords are hard to remember. A pattern that makes a password memorable is likely to make it vulnerable to attack. If remembering one secure password is

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Compose a tweet-length Wolfram Language program. Tweet it to @WolframTaP. Our Twitter bot will run it in the Wolfram Cloud and tweet back the result.

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Embedding Lisp in C++ - A Recipe

Challenging  Clojure's Integration with Java in Lisp with C++ Preamble - An uncommonly common language Lisp may be said to be simultaneously the most common and near enough most uncommon programmin...

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Adventures in C++ and programming

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The Convergence of Modern C++ on the Lisp Programming Style

Modern C++, as defined in the C++11 standard has evolved to become  an algorithmic language. This represents as much an idiomatic departure from Object Orientation as C++ was a departure from C's p...

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In this post we will give a short overview of what lambda calculus is and why you should know about it...

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Catch up on the latest news, events, and technical insights from the Microsoft Visual C++ product team. Learn about new compiler and IDE features, dive into some code with language and feature samples, see how to build modern Windows 8 apps, meet the product team and engage!

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One line of code cut our Flask page load times by 60%

Yesterday, we lowered the mean page load time across our Flask app from 350ms to 96ms by making one almost imperceptible…