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Nov 21, 2023 · 4 min read · Have you ever tried expressing board game rules in code? Does it sound a bit tedious? I bet it does, I implemented a few board game rulesets in Python and JavaScript to write a simulator or implement a version of the board game playable in a browser....
Join discussionNov 4, 2023 · 7 min read · func main() { a := 1 b := a // you know what value b has without running the program // can another program know it? } When you read source code, you intuitively know what values given variables take (like in the trivial example above), ...
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Sep 29, 2021 · 6 min read · Disclaimer: This is a fairly specific benchmark, it addresses only serialization performance of a single big Python object. That was the problem we were solving at the time at Plotwise. It might not be relevant to any other case, but you can probably...
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Jun 25, 2021 · 8 min read · I bet you never thought about it, as the problem seems trivial. When you drive with GPS-enabled navigation in your car, how does your smartphone/car navigation know which street you are on? You yourself mostly know it, even if you could not look outs...
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Mar 28, 2021 · 7 min read · Learning big legacy codebases is a chore. I wish there were more tools to help me learn what is going on in an existing application. There is a lot of focus on designing and building new software, but when it comes to modifying existing ones, especia...
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