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Elements of C Style (1994)

Notes on Programming Practices More Purity More Speed More Correctness Other notes on C programming Style Snobbism Your Friends, the Header Files Your Friend, the Compiler Function and Procedure Names Variable Names Notes on Formatting Style Indentation Braces Spacing Comments Function declarations Cute Tricks in C Powers of Two Unrolling Small Loops Unrolling Bigger Loops Counting Bits Random Essays on Programming Meaningless Variable Names Considered Useful GOTOs Considered Us

Clojure Civitas – Publish Clojure Ideas and Explorations

Clojure Civitas Clojure Civitas makes it easy for you to publish Clojure ideas and explorations without the overhead of setting up a new project, blog, or repo. Whether you're sketching out a quick experiment or writing a deeper post, just fork this repo, create a namespace, write, commit and submit a pull request. This is your shared scratch space. Think. Code. Share. ⚡ No setup – Clone this repo, make a new namespace, start coding. ✍️ Write as you code – Capture notes, results, and ideas a

Tired of Google Home not working? This new change will make you furious

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is updating names for certain voice options for Gemini-powered Assistant on Google Nest and Home smart devices. Some of these names are now simpler and easier to recall. These changes do not reflect Google’s plans to fix the ongoing reliability issues with Google Assistant on Home-affiliated smart devices. Google Assistant on Nest and other Google Home devices has been a mess lately, displaying a steadily declining perception of voice commands

Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie

Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie August 2, 2025 Displaying personal names in Icelandic user interfaces is surprisingly hard. This is because of declension — a language feature where the forms of nouns change to communicate a syntactic function. In Icelandic, personal names have four forms, one for each of the grammatical cases of Icelandic nouns. Take the name “Guðmundur”: Grammatical case Form Nominative Guðmundur Accusative Guðmund Dative Guðmundi Genitive

Do variable names matter for AI code completion? (2025)

Do Variable Names Matter for AI Code Completion? When GitHub Copilot suggests your next line of code, does it matter whether your variables are named current_temperature or just x ? I ran an experiment to find out, testing 8 different AI models on 500 Python code samples across 7 naming styles. The results suggest that descriptive variable names do help AI code completion. The Experiment Each code sample was transformed into different naming conventions: Descriptive ( process_user_input )

Show HN: A color name API that maps hex to the closest human-readable name

Physics The Color Name API is a powerful tool that provides a variety of color names based on a given color value. It leverages multiple open-source name lists to deliver accurate and diverse results. This page serves as an interactive playground where you can explore and test the API in action. The Color Name API allows you to query for color names based on hex values. You can specify multiple colors, choose a color name list, and control whether to return unique names. Use the interactive UR

Google’s up to some monkey business with these Pixel 12 codenames

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Possible codenames for Google’s Pixel 12 series have just leaked: Galago, Sasquatch, Silverback, and Capuchin. These primate-themed names would follow the Pixel 11’s bear names and Pixel 10’s horse names. Expect the same sort of four-device lineup, including a foldable, for Google’s 2027 launch. In just a couple more months, we’re looking forward to meeting Google’s Pixel 10 lineup. We’ve already seen lots of good reasons to be excited about this year

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ISP sued by record labels agrees to identify 100 users accused of piracy

Cable company Altice agreed to give Warner and other record labels the names and contact information of 100 broadband subscribers who were accused of pirating songs. The subscribers "were the subject of RIAA or third party copyright notices," said a court order that approved the agreement between Altice and the plaintiff record companies. Altice is notifying each subscriber "of Altice's intent to disclose their name and contact information to Plaintiffs pursuant to this Order," and telling the