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Linus Torvalds Still Wants the Linux Desktop
On August 22nd, 2014 with 59 comments
Hugh Pickens writes:ZDNet reports that from supercomputers to stock markets to...
White House Gives Up Making Coders Dress Like Adults
On August 22nd, 2014 with 21 comments
Hugh Pickens writes:Robert McMillan writes that when it comes to computers,...
Creators of New Fed-Proof Bitcoin Marketplace Swear It’s Not for Drugs
On August 31st, 2014 with 45 comments
_NSAKEY writes: Wired has a story about OpenBazaar, a software project created...
Named Data Networking: Distribution Instead of Communication
On September 6th, 2014 with 30 comments
frojack writes:Named Data Networking (NDN) is a new approach to network...
Linus Torvalds Shares his Opinion on systemd
On September 19th, 2014 with 57 comments
Hugh Pickens writes:Systemd has turned into the Godzilla of Linux...
New Development Manifesto "Reactive" Reaches 2.0
On September 22nd, 2014 with 26 comments
kaszz writes:First there was "agile" development. Now there's a new software...
C++14: What You Need To Know
On September 24th, 2014 with 37 comments
Anonymous Coward writes:The newest release of C++ has been characterized by...
Harvard Researchers Take Aim at Shellshock-like Woes with New Scripting Language
On September 27th, 2014 with 32 comments
AnonTechie writes:Joab Jackson at PC World reports:While administrators...
How Long Does it Take to Become Productive in a Programming Language?
On October 1st, 2014 with 47 comments
AndyTheAbsurd writes:raganwald.com has some interesting thoughts on the time...
Gruber and Winer Snipe at 'Common' Markdown Syntax Spec
On October 6th, 2014 with 24 comments
An Anonymous Coward writes:Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood is leading a...
Looping in Bash: An Introduction
On October 12th, 2014 with 41 comments
toygeek writes:When I first learned about Linux in the 90’s, I read that it...
Anyone Can Learn Programming
On October 16th, 2014 with 29 comments
fliptop writes:Over at ACM Mark Guzdial makes the case that
Teaching >...
Xerox Alto - Source Code Released
On October 23rd, 2014 with 5 comments
Uncle_Al writes:The Computer History Museum, with the aid of Xerox PARC has...
Feminism and Programming Languages
On October 23rd, 2014 with 109 comments
bradley13 writes:Arielle Schlesinger, from HASTAC, is working on her thesis:...
Retrospective: Core Wars
On October 24th, 2014 with 28 comments
silverly writes:Today I discovered an absolute gem from the past.If you were...
Ask Soylent: Good Programming Language For Processing Video Frames And Audio Data With Code?
On October 25th, 2014 with 47 comments
An Anonymous Coward writes:Dear Soylenters: What is a good programming language...
Wine Fails to Launch under Debian Jessie, Just Days before the Freeze Deadline
On October 25th, 2014 with 119 comments
An Anonymous Coward writes:A grave bug has been introduced into the "wine"...
Dronecode - A Common Codebase for Drones
On October 31st, 2014 with 12 comments
AnonTechie writes:Drones have just found their new best friends: coders. On...
It's Time to Revive HyperCard
On November 1st, 2014 with 29 comments
Hugh Pickens writes:HyperCard, an application program and programming tool...
The Effect of Programming Language on Software Quality
On November 6th, 2014 with 30 comments
Hugh Pickens writes:A variety of debates ensue during discussions whether a...
Netflix's Engineering Model: Write Code Really Fast
On November 10th, 2014 with 39 comments
microtodd writes:I thought this was an interesting presentation by Adrian...
Penal Coding: Programming in Prison
On November 15th, 2014 with 51 comments
Serp Kannella Gigantica writes:It sounds almost like a parody of Silicon...
Visual Studio Free for Open Source Projects
On November 16th, 2014 with 41 comments
N3Roaster writes:On November 12 Microsoft announced a new edition of Visual...
Ask Soylent: What Github Projects are Soylentils Involved In?
On November 22nd, 2014 with 21 comments
dogfart writes:Are you involved in a github or bitbucket project or have one of...
Google "inbox" Architecture and Cross Platform Development
On November 23rd, 2014 with 13 comments
Inbox is a new email app based on Gmail, which appears to be mostly aimed at...
The NSA Will Release 'Niagarafiles' Data Analysis Tool as Open Source
On November 26th, 2014 with 31 comments
sigma writes: A ZDNet story explains that Niagarafiles, renamed as NiFi, will...
Ask Soylent: How Do You Move Away From Framesets?
On December 9th, 2014 with 45 comments
mechanicjay writes:We have an internal web app for the folks downstairs which...
What Time Is It? Time for Multiple NTP Vulnerabilities!
On December 20th, 2014 with 13 comments
ghost writes:NTP, the Network Time Protocol, has announced six
serious...
NTimed is Here!
On December 22nd, 2014 with 23 comments
ghost writes:As promised, PHK has released an early version of Ntimed, his...
Critical Git Bug Allows Malicious Code Execution on Client Machines
On December 22nd, 2014 with 24 comments
martyb writes:Found on Ars Technica — "Critical Git bug allows malicious code...
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