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I've been experimenting with meteor.js recently, and it's great! The depth and breadth of the experience behind it really shows th...

With a good IDE , such as Eclipse , and good libraries, such as boost , programming in C++ is almost bearable. Unfortunately, boost's m...

Update (20120208): I recently launched writeLaTeX , a service that combines EtherPad with LaTeX preview. Try it out — it's free! Update...

Let's say you want to shuffle an array. This C++ code looks about right: void exchangeShuffle(int *xs, int n) { // *bad*   for (int i = ...

As Bjarne Stroustrup put it, "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." H...