Never send a human to do a machine's job
FuPy is a port of MicroPython which runs inside an FPGA. I take a look at it and try to get my head around how to program for it ...
Why can't I just ping this widget?
So some ludicrous proportion of SQL these days is generated by one ORM or another. And all the cool kids have decided to move on to the next thing anyway. So that got me thinking ... when we talk to an SQL database through an ORM, we're turning a bunch of operations on objects into a human readable query language, then turning that back into a query plan. *Why?*
Mostly, getting stuff done fast in the web world requires doing things in parallel. However, every now and then you bump into a problem where this just doesn't work ...
GCC 4.6 is slightly fussier about the order of its options than predecessors ...
It seems, at first, that C# doesn't have first-class classes. But ...