Posted in r/programming by u/pimterry • 110 points and 40 comments

An explanation of how to implement a simple hash table data structure, with code and examples in the C programming language.

40,000 lines of flawed code almost made it into FreeBSD’s kernel—we examine how.

Learn some great ideas on how to implement loop alignment in .NET 6 and get maximum benefit without affecting the performance adversely.

Okay, I managed to encode my avatar with terminal escape sequences and unicode block characters and put it in the author email field. git clone gist.github.com/ryancdotorg/a2… /tmp/a256c3c cd /tmp/a256c3c git --no-pager log -s --format="%ae"

Detailed look into all the machinery involved in rendering Emoji

fastest text uwuifier in the west. Contribute to Daniel-Liu-c0deb0t/uwu development by creating an account on GitHub.

Watchdog bites Uncle Sam and Lockheed Martin over $14bn-and-counting efforts

Technical competence matters for managers.

In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway. The city's local government, @Stockholmsstad, spent 1 billion Swedish crowns (100 million dollars) over 7 years to build a massive do-everything school IT platform, which students, teachers and parents…

Today we’re launching our Free plan on Stack Overflow for Teams.
We know that sharing knowledge and async collaboration is critical to companies and teams of all sizes. We also know people need a g...

Posted in r/programming by u/kz393 • 102 points and 17 comments

Several people asked for this, and my initial response was "impossible", but I did it anyway. Repo for this one is https://t.co/BjBy6P9515 ...but note that only iTerm2 is 1337 enough to handle it Thanks to @dbsynergy for being my guinea pig and recording…

In 1988, three engineers came together and developed one of the most clever solutions to the problem of detecting when two complex objects collide. Their solution, the Gilbert Johnson Keerthi (GJK) algorithm, named after the authors, made an incredible impact…

This post is written by Hannah Wolfman-Jones but includes a response from civil-rights expert Nadine Strossen, former president of the ACLU. It addresses the inclusion of Richard M. Stallman as a co-author in the book System Override: How Bitcoin, Blockchain…

Devs scramble for replacement mimetype data package

I’ve been dealing with QR codes recently, as one of my side projects generates them, and I got curious about how much data you can really fit in a QR code. Specifically, I wondered how much of my favorite book I could fit on one QR code.
QR Code versions…

Software at Scale 3 with Bharat Mediratta: ex-CTO, Dropbox Listen to the full episode at: https://www.softwareatscale.dev/p/software-at-scale-003-bharat-medi...

Posted in r/programming by u/EatMeerkats • 103 points and 23 comments