Zero-Shot Translation with Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System
https://research.googleblog.com/2016/11/zero-shot-translation-with-googles.html
(translating unseen lang pairs!)
miniblog.
Apple Dylan Screenshots
https://web.archive.org/web/20140703072127/https://opendylan.org/about/apple-dylan/screenshots/index.html
An IDE where all your code is modelled as objects with metadata is amazingly flexible.
GraphQL is a really elegant way of querying a datastore, instead of REST or SQL. Eg https://waywardmonkeys.org/2016/03/15/graphql-beyond-the-web/ (querying OS metadata example)
Rust includes handy methods on integers for SSE intrinsics, and rustc will even suggest using them! https://tmccrmck.github.io//post/rust-optimization-partii/
I am delighted to announce Helpful, an Emacs help buffer with context!
PLs like Scheme have explored the minimum set of primitives to offer. What about portable file I/O and networking?
GUI code is often harder to test. The nice thing about static guarantees (eg JSX, eslint, typescript) is they work well with GUIs.
Funny how Conda is criticised for its corporate backing, but npm is not. Both are great companies, but npm had few alternatives at inception
Python is arguably a great PL for a long term project. I can't imagine there will ever be a Python 4 breaking backward compatibility.
It's odd how few blog implementations have built-in comments. AFAICS all the popular Wordpress alternatives lack this.
Interesting discussion from an IntelliJ dev on what an IDE needs in a parser:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6fs5q9/language_servers_and_ides/dinhtiz (eg the parse tree must have comments)
"Extremist Programming": try to apply a technique everywhere, not just where it's commonly used.
Leaky by Design
https://hackernoon.com/leaky-by-design-7b423142ece0
(has interesting examples of design challenges inside Microsoft software)
Bug hunting rituals:
https://www.jackkinsella.ie/articles/the-bug-slip
(Being systematic and taking notes, with some good examples)
Ouch. A backup horror story from
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