Nelson Elhage
Person on 4 sites
Nelson Elhage is a software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about debugging, performance and computer systems.
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3 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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5 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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GitHub: github.com/nelhage (opens github.com)
“crossme — A collaborative crossword-puzzle solver”
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Mastodon: @nelhage@mastodon.social (opens mastodon.social)
“A while ago, @regehr was tooting about optimizing brainfuck, and I speculated that peeling off the first iteration of a loop might make the loop body easier to optimize:…”
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Blog: Made of Bugs (opens blog.nelhage.com)
“From error-handling to structured concurrency”
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GitHub: github.com/nelhage (opens github.com)
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19 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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A composable concurrency paradigm requires a general-purpose cancellation mechanism. (opens korrents.com)
“But I struggle to envision a general, composable, concurrent paradigm without one.”
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Structured concurrency makes it easier to write correct, safe concurrent code. (opens korrents.com)
“writing programs in this style makes it much easier to write correct and safe concurrent code”
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Augmenting a general-purpose solver with domain-specific heuristics commonly gives it a meaningful performance boost. (opens korrents.com)
“My sense is that this hybrid is fairly common in practice; solvers aren't magical and if you can deduce additional structure using domain-specific analysis, it will often give the solver an important boost.”
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A composable concurrency paradigm requires a general-purpose cancellation mechanism. (opens korrents.com)
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13 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Failure Is Not An Option (opens rcmnd.app)
“This was the first book I read about the early space program, and I'd recommend it as a good entry point.”
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts (opens rcmnd.app)
“It's a solid, well-sourced ("based on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with each of the twenty-four moon voyagers, as well as those who contributed their brain power, training and teamwork on Earth"), general…”
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From the Earth to the Moon (opens rcmnd.app)
“This is a 12-episode HBO miniseries largely based on the previous book. It's also an excellent work, and I'd highly recommend it.”
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Failure Is Not An Option (opens rcmnd.app)