Tag: dictionary

This article is an in-depth exploration of how to create dictionary keys that are fast and performant under all circumstances, and why String-based keys often fail in that regard. It includes actual examples and performance data taken from Factory, my open-source dependency injection library...

This article is an in-depth exploration of how to create dictionary keys that are fast and performant under all circumstances, and why String-based keys often fail in that regard. It includes actual examples and performance data taken from Factory, my open-source dependency injection library...

African Americans have ongoing struggles they have faced in their pursuit of equal rights and opportunities in the United States. From slavery to the civil rights movement and beyond, African Americans have faced systemic discrimination, racial segregation, and unequal treatment in various aspect...

The days of having a dictionary on your bookshelf are numbered. But that’s OK, because everyone already walks around with a dictionary — not the one on your phone, but the one in your head. Just like a physical dictionary, your mental dictionary contains information about wo...

Autumn has finally come to Paris. In the Tuileries Gardens, I admire the flowers the gardeners have planted and savor the cool air on my skin. For a moment, I think, “What a time to be alive.” That feeling doesn’t end when I settle into a chair in the Gardens’ cool playgro...

Local dialects are complex to translate sometimes. “Indian speech etiquette features a complex system of kinship terms and terms of address, in which age, gender, status, and family relationships are marked by a highly specific vocabulary with no direct equivalents in English,” s...