azhenley

What should I use in replace of Google Analytics for basic web traffic analytics?

The snippet I'm looking at isn't code at all. It is Polish, and there isn't any comment tokens or anything.

Single header, no dependencies, cross platform, immediate mode, and the GUI examples actually look good... that’s wild.

It isn’t public [yet]. You should check out our plug-in CodeRibbon though! Available for Atom.

https://utk-se.github.io/CodeRibbon/

Fantastic, downloading the latest version now!

When I looked, it had the same problem that Dropbox has with this: a textual listing with only timestamps. I need semantic info! Show me the differences. Don't make me choose from this arbitrary list. I want to scan through the versions very, very quickly.

I can't find my favorite C macro bomb, but this same post has a C answer using defines: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/69413/4270

The C++ template answers are particularly scary...

This is terrifying. Anyone know what other data they have access to?

The content is posted for free. If you buy it, you are paying for a physical copy of free material.

PDF of the book: http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/book/Algori...

Parsing most certainly is *not* easy for someone new to compilers. My students remind me of that all the time.

Every interview I’ve done required me to have everything memorized, so it seems this is very much a thing.

Author here. I'm a professor that teaches software engineering and occasionally web development, sooo I think your comparison is inapt...

Are the FAANG companies hiring for remote positions though? I've been told they are remote currently, but as soon as they say it is "safe" then you have to show up to the office.

> they told him the data had been lost, which is pretty weird

I don't think that is weird at all. After the lead student on a project leaves, the faculty, especially non-technical or not so organized ones, may not even know how to access the data anymore. Who knows what arcane scripts or processes are needed to get it in a shareable form.

There can also be hoops with the IRB to jump through and a lot of effort in general to give someone access to data. I had an IRB insist that all raw data be deleted after 2 years of collection anyway, so by the time the paper got published the raw data had to be deleted forever.

I wish it were easier to release data and replication kits, but sadly the incentives aren't there.

Two days ago Beeper, a (almost?) universal chat app, was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25848278

I hope they continue to support and improve GM!

The code from the Wikipedia article for XOR swapping [1] checks if the values are equal.

  void XorSwap(int *x, int *y) {
    if (x != y) {
      *x ^= *y;
      *y ^= *x;
      *x ^= *y;
    }
  }

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_swap_algorithm

How many different proposals for generics have there been?

If I wanted to start a microgrant program, I wonder how much effort and overhead there is to set it up and run. Anyone have experience with this?

I'm jealous. Tennessee (in the US) has no incentives for electric cars and actually charges a high "EV fee" for annual vehicle registration since they aren't getting the gasoline tax.

CHI gives 1% of submitted papers a Best Paper Award and the top 5% get Honorable Mention. It is a very large conference though.

Are papers getting more boring or does the reader just find less novels things to read as they read more and more? Maybe the reader is bored of the field in general. The 500th time you do anything isn’t as exciting as the 5th time.

On another note, why does everything have to be exciting? Small incremental improvements over the years is what I aim for.

Thanks, I will add that book to the post! It looks really good.

It looks like an interesting project. The syntax for pointers is what grabbed my attention at first. Would really need to spend some time with this to know how it would work in practice.

    const char* myString = "Blah";
    (var my-string (* (const char)) "Blah")

That’s in my original list from last year!

Author here. I agree! That was one of the projects from the original project list that I posted a year ago (https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/challengingprojects.html).

In fact, this summer I wrote a 3-part tutorial series on implementing a BASIC compiler: Let's make a Teeny Tiny compiler (https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/teenytinycompiler1.html)

Is the value the same as a traditional 4 year degree?

> Maybe it's because they usually aren't reproducible

Not reproducible is different than no one attempting to reproduce it.

Awesome, thanks for this!

In the spring I’ll be teaching a graduate-level university course on how the Python compiler and tooling works, so I’ll be showing them your articles.

In response to this article's discussion of automating some tasks away, back when I was at Microsoft we studied the effects of an automated code reviewer on team collaboration. Our automated code reviewer utilized a family of analyzers (e.g., static, dynamic, binary, security, and dependency analyzers, along with best practice linters), unit test results, and feedback from the build system.

To summarize, a lot of effort during code reviews is spent on superficial details while missing high-level design discussions and bugs. Anything that can get rid of those superficial problems (i.e., linters and program analyzers) is helpful, but we found that it was even better to optionally show the analyzer's warnings to the entire team , not just an individual prior to the code review. Showing the warnings to the entire team let them discuss them (and they often did) and decide as a group what should be done.

Findings from our project: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/pubs/Henley2018CHI_CFar.pdf