Nearly ten years ago I graduated with a degree in Mathematics & Computing, with a keen interest in pursuing a career involving maths and programming, but with little idea how. First and foremost I had decided to stay in Manchester after uni, rather than risk…

Employees are asking for voluntary recognition.

I’m not sure people would watch my TV show.

Introduction

This PEP proposes adding a mapping from each bytecode instruction to the start and end column offsets of the line that generated them as well as the end line number. This data will be used to improve tracebacks displayed by the CPython interpreter in or...

Posted in r/programming by u/pimterry • 264 points and 159 comments

Two modes of operation leverage entirely different practices

This post delves into the implementation of my procedural earth simulation, written entirely in GLSL fragment shaders. It simulates the complete history of an earth-like planet in a few minutes, with the simulation updating at 60 frames per second.

EASTL stands for Electronic Arts Standard Template Library. It is an extensive and robust implementation that has an emphasis on high performance. - electronicarts/EASTL

What does the future of work look like post-pandemic? One-third of employees would leave their current roles if remote work was no longer an option at their company. Workplace flexibility may no longer be a “bonus”, but a crucial requirement for workers across…

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Speaking from experience — with a second chance in a software leadership position

The Mozilla Common Voice initiative has released a new, expanded data set featuring 16 new languages — like Basaa and Kazakh — and 4,622 new hours of sp…

Learn what is new in the Visual Studio Code July 2021 Release (1.59)

A BSD-based OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience. - ravynsoft/ravynos

Earlier this year, npm indefinitely suspended their process for “adopting an abandoned package” (wiping all references to it from their documentation.) That was because of me. A thread 🧵 1/?

Skip spotify ads by automatically restarting application when ad plays - daspartho/SpotiByeAds

From all of the surprising things I made on .NET / C# / GO and other compilers, this takes the cake: I'm quitting programming; I'll see myself out; bye #dotnet

Corrections:
- 2:37 the size of the boot sector is 512 bytes, not 256
- 3:29 you can't just move 0 to the es register. you should do something like:

mov ax, 0
mov es , ax

make sure you're not losing the contents of ax, do a push/pop if you want to be safe…