This post is part of a series - go here for the index. Welcome back! The previous post gave us a lot of theoretical groundwork on triangles. This time, let's turn it into a working triangle rasterizer. Again, no profiling or optimization this time, but there will be code, and it should get us set…
The good news about Erlang can be summed up at this: Erlang is the culmination of twenty-five years of correct design decisions in the language and platform. Whenever I've wondered about how something in Erlang works, I have never been disappointed in the answer. I almost always leave with the impression that the designers did the “right thing”. I suppose this is in contrast to Java, which does the pedantic thing, Perl, which does the kludgy thing, Ruby, which has two independent implementations of the wrong thing, and C, which doesn't do anything.
While the modern programming language Haxe is well-known in some circles, many developers have never heard of it. Yet since it first appeared in 2005, it's been battle-tested by its loyal---if rather quiet---following. It boasts a pragmatic and mature combination of features for development in business, gaming, and even academic contexts.
- a professional IT technology community and developer service platform in China
- Has 50 million registered users and 600,000 registered companies and partners
I have a major pet peeve that I need to confess. I go insane when I hear programmers talking about statistics like they know shit when it’s clearly obvious they do not. I’ve been studying it for years and years and still don’t think I know anything. This article is my call for all programmers…
Do you think of yourself as a Python programmer, or a Ruby programmer? Are you a front-end programmer, a back-end programmer? Emacs, vim, Sublime, or Visual Studio? Linux or macOS? If you think of yourself as a Python programmer, if you identify yourself as an Emacs user, if you know you’re better than those vim-loving Ruby programmers: you’re doing yourself a disservice. You’re a worse programmer for it, and you’re harming your career. Why? Because you are not your tools, and your tools shouldn’t define your skillset.
Have you tried using software from way off the beaten path? Maybe you tried to make software for your graphing calculator and realized that you were one of five people to ever try that and there was…
China drives 1 out of every 3 app downloads. But Chinese apps have strikingly unique design customs & features. This blog introduces Chinese app design.
I was working on an university project with some course mates when I had this conversation. My course mate said: “I don’t understand this design with APIs; why don’t we just make life easier for them…
My earlier posts about using Vim were well received and it’s about time for an update. I’ve been doing a lot more work with Vim lately and have spent some time configuring my workflow for peak efficiency, so here’s a snapshot of my current state.
On my previous team at Google, I spent 3 months writing C (working on the Linux Kernel Library), before we suddenly found ourselves needing C++ — we wanted to write a testing tool that could…