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Week 16: On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules

My old code is atrocious

About achieving polymorphism in Javascript

Writing a REST client in Haskell

My very own daily WTF

I infiltrated #railsgirlslj, here's what it was like

Experienced developers can't solve this problem

Monads, monads, monads, monads

The birth of LISP - a summary of John McCarthy's original paper

Levenshtein distance in Haskell

Why I still haven't learned Haskell

Natural Language Generation system architectures

My brain can't handle OOP anymore

Using Backbone to improve multiselects

What Refactoring is, and what it isn't

Closure and currying magic for cleaner javascript

How to make your django app slow

The commonest javascript bug

Collatz, Haskell and Memoization

Sabbatical week day 3: Raining datatypes

Learning me a Haskell

Javascript's lack of strftime

Fun javascript feature

A turing machine in 133 bytes of javascript

Parsing JavaScript with JavaScript

Programmers are fucking lazy

Functional isn't always better

A cool JavaScript property you never noticed

A few years ago I was playing around with JavaScript trying to find the cleanest way to implement callbacks in functions. Primarily I wanted a readable way to make certain the last argument passed is a callback, withut having to rely on knowing how many arguments there are and so on. Instead I stumbled upon a pretty cool feature of how javascript handles function arguments.

Benchmarking node, tornado and django for concurrency

The strangestest Hello World I ever made