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Bloom Filters
Bloom filters offer a space-efficient solution for checking set membership, trading accuracy for reduced memory usage.
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So, I Wrote a Book
The Story Behind 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
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Eventually Green Tests (April Fool’s Joke)
With enough time, 97% of failing tests will eventually pass or become irrelevant.
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Lurking Variables
Proactively segmenting data per influencing factors can help discover lurking variables before they lead to misinterpretations.
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Functors, Applicatives, and Monads
Thanks to constructs like monads, imperative-style code can be reconciled with the purity and declarative nature of functional programming.
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Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
When temporality becomes causality.
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Tidy First?
Tidying are a subset of refactorings. Tidying are the cute, fuzzy little refactorings that nobody could possibly hate on.
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Simultaneous Multithreading
What are the key benefits of using Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) in CPU architecture?
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10 Rules I Learned About Technical Writing
Empathy matters: Just because something is simple for you doesn’t mean it’s simple for your reader.
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Instruction Pipelining
The key to performance? Keep the CPU busy, not waiting.
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Linux Soft vs. Hard Lockup
Tracking soft and hard lockups is crucial to monitor the health of Linux-based systems.
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Partially Applied Functions vs. Currying
Combining currying with partial application leads to a cleaner and more concise way to break down complex functions into reusable components.
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