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A review of popular serialization formats (CSV, JSON, YAML, e.t.c), including speed and memory comparisons.

Source: A Comparison Of Serialization Formats | mbedded.ninja

Source: Pythagoras and the Mystery of Numbers

Introduction As I was browsing the web and catching up on some sites I visit periodically, I found a cool article from Tom Hayden about using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and mrjob in order to compute some statistics on win/loss ratios for chess games he downloaded from the millionbase archive, and generally have fun with EMR. Since the data volume was only about 1.75GB containing around 2 million chess games, I was skeptical of using Hadoop for the task, but I can understand his goal of learning and having fun with mrjob and EMR.

Source: Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster – Adam Drake

Source: Visual 6502 in JavaScript

SHA-1 is a Shambles

Source: SHA-1 is a Shambles

Simple HTML5 and JS game | In Codepad you can find +44,000 free code snippets, HTML5, CSS3, and JS Demos. Collaborate with other web developers.

Source: Simple HTML5 and JS game – Codepad

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SummaryWe are going to learn the top algorithm’s running time that every developer should be familiar. Knowing these time complexities will help you to assess if your code will scale. Also, it’s handy to compare different solutions for the same problem. You would be able to estimate which one will perform better.

Source: 8 time complexities that every programmer should know | Adrian Mejia Blog

Citrine is a simple, easy-to-learn programming language for everyday scripting, loosely based on Smalltalk.

Source: Citrine Programming Language | a language by Gabor de Mooij