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Detailed documentation for the .properties files used in Java programming is surprisingly obscure. Are quotes permitted around values? What limits are there on key tokens? It’s a mystery.

Properties (Java SE 10 & JDK 10 )

Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 3 months ago.

Optimizing your network caching to account for the properties of your storage hardware sometimes takes you in unexpected directions.

Why We Started Putting Unpopular Assets in Memory Recently, we developed a technology that reduces our hit tail latency and reduces the wear out of SSDs. This technology is a memory-SSD hybrid storage system that puts unpopular assets in memory.

Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 4 months ago.

HQ9+, a minimalist tutorial-complete esoteric programming language.

HQ9+ - Cliffle

Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 7 months ago.

Offset-based pagination get inefficient for large offsets; seek-based pagination makes the link to the next page cheap at the expense of having no easy route to previous pages.

Thoughts on Arbitrary Pagination • Sean Griffin Pagination is the act of breaking a data set into multiple pages to limit the amount of data that has to be processed and sent by a server at once. We’re going to be changing how pagination works on crates.io, and I wanted to share some musings... | Sean Griffin | Co-lead of the crates.io team, full time Rust contributor. Creator of Diesel. Former Rails committer. they/them

Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 10 months ago.

Software that responds instantly to your touch or mouse clicks or keyboard feels light and helps you get things done you cant do when it is slow.

(Via Link to ‘Fast Software, the Best Software’ on Daring Fireball)

Fast Software, the Best Software On the benefits of performant software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability

Noted by Damian Cugley 6 years ago.

An approach to organizing long-lived software projects in which data objects and abstract APIs live in the middle and external interfaces and database connections in the outer crust.

The Clean Architecture 13 August 2012

Noted by Damian Cugley 6 years, 3 months ago.

Ideas for extending the Java language with data classes and sealed types to get the effect of algebraic datatypes in the Haskel or SML sense.

Data Classes and Sealed Types for Java Brian Goetz, February 2019 This document explores possible directions for data classes and sealed types in the Java Language, and is an update to Data Classes in Java. This is an exploratory document only and does not constitute a plan for any specific feature in any specific version of the Java Language.

Noted by Damian Cugley 6 years, 4 months ago.

Hooks are a new addition in React 16.8. They let you use state and other React features without writing a class.

Introducing Hooks Hooks are a new addition in React 16.8. They let you use state and other React features without writing a class.

Noted by Damian Cugley 6 years, 6 months ago.