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Sometimes its useful to be able see the values of environment variables inrunning processes. We can use the following test program to see how well we canacco...

If you were teaching a programming course, what language would you teach it in?

Software Engineering Interviews at Jane Street

We’re in the midst of intern hiring season, and so we get a lot of questionsabout what it’s like to be an intern at Jane Street. One of the things peoplemost...

Almost every programming language uses 64-bit integers on typical modern Intelmachines. OCaml uses a special 63-bit representation. How does it affect OCaml?

The Parable Of The Perfect Connection

I’m a little biased, by being on the steering committee, but this year’s MLworkshop looks really interesting. Here’s a link to the program:

Often when writing a new module, I want to write the interface first and savethe implementation for later. This lets me use the module as a black box,extendi...

In the once upon a time days of the First Age of Magic, the prudent sorcererregarded his own true name as his most valued possession but also the greatestt...

Sometimes it can be useful to inspect the state of a TCP endpoint. Things suchas the current congestion window, the retransmission timeout (RTO), duplicateac...