Programming Digest - PD#579 The documentation tradeoff

The Documentation Tradeoff
4 minutes by Kent Beck

A little, sure, but be careful about more.

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Gilbert–Johnson–Keerthi algorithm explained as simply as possible
8 minutes

The GJK algorithm is a weird way to do a simple thing. We have shape A and shape B, and we'd like to determine if they overlap.

How to Build Anything Extremely Quickly
4 minutes by dnbt777

Do "outline speedrunning": Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect. This is a ~10x speed up over the 'loading-bar' style (more on that below) Don't just read this article and move on. Go out and do this for the very next thing you make.

Understanding Postgres GIN Indexes: The Good and the Bad
17 minutes by By Lukas Fittl

Learn for which data types and operators GIN is best suited for and why updating GIN indexes can be more expensive thank you think.

SimpleDB: A Basic RDBMS Built From Scratch
5 minutes by Akila Welihinda

My databases class at UCLA wasn’t very challenging so I never truly understood the internals of databases. This always bothered me so I vowed to build a simple database from scratch to learn the fundamentals.

And we’ll finish with a story from Raymond Chen on the origin of the Windows 3D Pipes screen saver.

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