An optimized JavaScript implementation of the MurmurHash algorithms.
These algorithms take a JavaScript string (and a seed), and quickly create a non-cryptographic 32-bit hash from it. And by quick I mean sub-millisecond performance.
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
It’s truly weird, but it does seem to work often enough that naïve web-page writers who never knew they needed a Content-Type header look at their page in a web browser and it looks ok, until one day, they write something that doesn’t exactly conform to the letter-frequency-distribution of their native language, and Internet Explorer decides it’s Korean and displays it thusly, proving, I think, the point that Postel’s Law about being “conservative in what you emit and liberal in what you accept” is quite frankly not a good engineering principle.
Programming: Trim to Full Word
this is great but do you know how I would end with a full word?
The Hidden Costs of Software Complexity
Tony Hoare suggested in his 1980 Turing Award lecture, “There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.” Having discussed how the non-obvious deficiencies due to complexity can hurt us, how do we go about defending ourselves against these costs?
Here are some strategies you can use:
- Optimize for simplicity
- Define a mission statement for your team or product to align focus.
- Compose large systems from simpler building blocks.
- Clearly define interfaces between modules and services.
- Periodically pay off technical debt.
- Use data to prune unused features.
- Group ongoing projects around themes.