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Programming Stories

Ask Slashdot: Best Dedicated Low Power Embedded Dev System Choice? 177
Will Google's Dart Language Replace Javascript? (Video) 177
Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software 577
US Tech Firms Recruiting High Schoolers (And Younger) 253
Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language 411
The World's Best Living Programmers 279
KDE Releases Frameworks 5 87
IEEE Spectrum Ranks the Top Programming Languages 192
Does Google Have Too Much Influence Over K-12 CS Education? 63
Famo.us: Do We Really Need Another JavaScript Framework? 104
Damian Conway On Perl 6 and the Philosophy of Programming 131
Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy? 534
Happy Software Developers Solve Problems Better 121
Is K-12 CS Education the Next Common Core? 113
Google Is Offering Free Coding Lessons To Women and Minorities 376
Ask Slashdot: Correlation Between Text Editor and Programming Language? 359
An Army Medal For Coding In Perl 192
Visualizing Algorithms 50
Building the Infinite Digital Universe of No Man's Sky 100
Why Software Builds Fail 279
Programming On a Piano Keyboard 57
Mozilla Introduces Browser-Based WebIDE 132
Perl Is Undead 283
Computational Thinking: AP Computer Science Vs AP Statistics? 155
Ask Slashdot: Best Way to Learn C# For Game Programming? 254
Overeager Compilers Can Open Security Holes In Your Code 199
Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative 548
Intel Adds SIMD Vectorization to JavaScript 1
Adobe To Let Third Party Devs Incorporate Photoshop Features 39
Code Spaces Hosting Shutting Down After Attacker Deletes All Data 387
Android Needs a Simulator, Not an Emulator 167
Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? 466
Netflix Shutters Its Public API 59
545-Person Programming War Declares a Winner 57
The Profoundly Weird, Gender-Specific Roots of the Turing Test 136
Google Engineer: We Need More Web Programming Languages 309
Turing Test Passed 432
Intel Confronts a Big Mobile Challenge: Native Compatibility 230
Ask Slashdot: Where's the Most Unusual Place You've Written a Program From? 310
Machine Learning Used For JavaScript Code De-obfuscation 31
Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift 636
A Measure of Your Team's Health: How You Treat Your "Idiot" 255
Ask Slashdot: What Inspired You To Start Hacking? 153
Perl 5.20 Released, and Mojolicious 5.0: the Very Modern Perl Web Framework 126
OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers 132
No, HealthCare.gov Doesn't Require 500 Million Lines of Code 142
PHP Next Generation 213
Why You Shouldn't Use Spreadsheets For Important Work 422
Become a Linux Kernel Hacker and Write Your Own Module 143
Chelsea Clinton At NCWIT: More PE, Less Zuckerberg 255
R Throwdown Challenge 185
First Browser-Based Quantum Computer Simulator Released 61
Mozilla Launches Student Coding Program "Winter of Security" 40
Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language 137
Fixing the Pain of Programming 294
Programmers: It's OK To Grow Up 232
Finding More Than One Worm In the Apple 116
New PostgreSQL Guns For NoSQL Market 162
US College Students Still Aren't All That Interested In Computer Science 306
Ask Slashdot: What Should Every Programmer Read? 352
WebKit Unifies JavaScript Compilation With LLVM Optimizer 170
Ask Slashdot: Minimum Programming Competence In Order To Get a Job? 466
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding 125
Why Scientists Are Still Using FORTRAN in 2014 634
Programming Language Diversity On the Rise 177
Crytek Open-Sources Their 'Renderdoc' 3D Debugger 20
GitHub Open Sources Atom, Their Text Editor Based On Chromium 121
Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? 800
Ask Slashdot: Beginner To Intermediate Programming Projects? 172
Ask Slashdot: Joining a Startup As an Older Programmer? 274
Kids To Get the Best CS Teachers $15/Hr Can Buy 157
ESA Taking Applications for Summer of Code in Space 21
Coding Bootcamps Already 1/8th the Size of CS Undergraduates 92
One-a-Day-Compiles: Good Enough For Government Work In 1983 230
C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? 435
The Ways Programming Is Hard 278
50 Years of BASIC, the Language That Made Computers Personal 224
Programming Education Making A Comeback In Primary Schools 138
Erik Meijer: The Curse of the Excluded Middle 237
Ask Slashdot: Books for a Comp Sci Graduate Student? 247
The Ethical Dilemmas Today's Programmers Face 183
Code Quality: Open Source vs. Proprietary 139
How 'DevOps' Is Killing the Developer 226
The Security of Popular Programming Languages 189
Akamai Reissues All SSL Certificates After Admitting Heartbleed Patch Was Faulty 56
Michael Bloomberg: You Can't Teach a Coal Miner To Code 581
Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake 447
Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton: How We're Turning Everyone Into DIY Hackers 90
Born To RUN: Dartmouth Throwing BASIC a 50th B-Day Party 146
Raspberry Pi Compute Module Release 51
Should Microsoft Give Kids Programmable Versions of Office? 226
Ask Slashdot: the State of Open CS, IT, and DBA Courseware in 2014? 84
Microsoft To Allow Code Contributions To F# 100
Hackathon Gold: How To Win a Job Offer In a Coding Competition 25
.NET Native Compilation Preview Released 217
Ask Slashdot: Do Any Development Shops Build-Test-Deploy On A Cloud Service? 119
Subversion Project Migrates To Git 162
State Colleges May Offer Best ROI On Comp Sci Degrees 127
Toward Better Programming 391
Ask Slashdot: What Do You Consider Elegant Code? 373
KDE and Canonical Developers Disagree Over Display Server 202
Ask Slashdot: Moving From Tech Support To Development? 133
Facebook Introduces Hack: Statically Typed PHP 230
Ask Slashdot: Will Older Programmers Always Have a Harder Time Getting a Job? 379
Python 3.4 Released 196
Code Combat: Free, Open Source, Multiplayer Programming Lessons 30
Java 8 Officially Released 302
Flash Is Dead; Long Live OpenFL! 166
Ask Slashdot: Can an Old Programmer Learn New Tricks? 306
Shuttleworth Wants To Get Rid of Proprietary Firmware 147
Prominent GitHub Engineer Julie Ann Horvath Quits Citing Harrassment 710
Lies Programmers Tell Themselves 452
Study: Happiness Improves Developers' Problem Solving Skills 91
Movie and TV GUIs: Cracking the Code 74
How St. Louis Is Bootstrapping Hundreds of Programmers 147
Computer Science Enrollments Rocketed Last Year, Up 22% 137
Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers 479
Ask Slashdot: What's New In Legacy Languages? 247
Ask Slashdot: Reviewing 3rd Party Libraries? 88
The New PHP 254
Ask Slashdot: Modern Web Development Applied Science Associates Degree? 246
Wolfram Language Demo Impresses 216
Github Rolls Out New Text Editor Atom 82
Why We Need To Teach Hacking In High School 124
Code.org Resurrects 'Flappy Bird' As Programming Lesson 72
Will Peggy the Programmer Be the New Rosie the Riveter? 333
Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? 627
Book Review: Sudo Mastery: User Access Control For Real People 83
The Neuroscience of Computer Programming 161
Jim Weirich, Creator of Rake, Has Passed Away 109
Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity? 149
Ask Slashdot: Best Options For Ongoing Education? 149
The First Open Ranking of the World Wide Web Is Available 53
Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Fix Bugs They Cause On Their Own Time? 716
A Dedicated Shell For Git Commands 96
Boom Or Bust: The Lowdown On Code Academies 130
Non-Coders As the Face of the Learn-to-Code Movements 158
Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? 876
HTML5 App For Panasonic TVs Rejected - JQuery Is a "Hack" 573
Getting Young Women Interested In Open Source 545
Who's Writing Linux These Days? 63
Eclipse Foundation Celebrates 10 Years 155
Should Everybody Learn To Code? 387
The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On 505
The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer 533
California Regulator Seeks To Shut Down 'Learn To Code' Bootcamps 374
Kentucky: Programming Language = Foreign Language 426
Code Is Not Literature 240
FreeBSD 10.0 Released 136
Examining the User-Reported Issues With Upgrading From GCC 4.7 To 4.8 148
Ask Slashdot: Configuring Development Environment On a Shared Workstation? 158
Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? 533
Valve Working on GNU/Linux Native Open Source OpenGL Debugger 88
Chrome Is the New C Runtime 196
Intel Dev: GTK's Biggest Problem, and What Qt Does Better 282
Programmer Privilege 353
GNU Guile Scheme Gets a Register VM and CPS-Based IL 42
Code.org: Give Us More H-1B Visas Or the Kids Get Hurt 271
Programmer Debunks Source Code Shown In Movies and TV Shows 301
How Reactive Programming Differs From Procedural Programming 186
Regex Golf, xkcd, and Peter Norvig 172
4K Is For Programmers 520
Real-Time Face Substitution in Javascript 63
Google Ports Capsicum To Linux, and Other End-of-Year Capsicum News 71
KDE Releases Frameworks 5 Tech Preview 51
Debug.js: A JavaScript VM and In-Browser Debugger In Pure JS Generators 34
LLVM and Clang 3.4 Are Out 118
"Clinical Trials" For Programming Languages? 232
Cairo 2D Graphics May Become Part of ISO C++ 430
Source Code For 22nd IOCCC Winners Has Been Released 47
Do Non-Technical Managers Add Value? 249
Emacs Needs To Move To GitHub, Says ESR 252
Not All Bugs Are Random 165
How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? 606
Ruby 2.1.0 Released 65
Is Ruby Dying? 400
Asm.js Gets Faster 289
Is Computer Science Education Racist and Sexist? 612
Ask Slashdot: Working With Others, As a Schizophrenic Developer? 218
IDC: 40 Percent of Developers Are 'Hobbyists' 148
Comparing G++ and Intel Compilers and Vectorized Code 225
'Approximate Computing' Saves Energy 154
Code.org Stats: 507MM LOC, 6.8MM Kids, 2K YouTube Views 123
Google's Dart Becomes ECMA's Dart 190
More Students Learn CS In 3 Days Than Past 100 Years 287
KDE Releases KDevelop 4.6 93
Chicago Public Schools Promoting Computer Science to Core Subject 236
Excite Kids To Code By Focusing Less On Coding 207
King James Programming 184
Why Reactive Programming For Databases Is Awesome 165
The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability 286
Zuckerberg Shows Kindergartners Ruby Instead of JavaScript 144
Ask Slashdot: Why Are Tech Job Requirements So Specific? 465
Speed Test 2: Comparing C++ Compilers On WIndows 132
Code.org: More Money For CS Instructors Who Teach More Girls 381
If You Want To Code From Home, Learn JavaScript 152
Google Is Building a Chrome App-Based IDE 209
Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) On Every Raspberry Pi 99
Microsoft Adds Node.js Support To Visual Studio 197
Milverton Wallace Organizes Hackathons in Great Britain (Video) 11
GCC 4.9 Coming With Big New Features 181
Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting 295
Stephen Wolfram Developing New Programming Language 168
Dart 1.0 Released 121
Microsoft Releases Browser-Based IDE, Visual Studio Online 89
Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0 159
Apple II DOS Source Code Released 211
Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? 361
The Academy For Software Engineering: a High School For Developers 56
Bribe Devs To Improve Open Source Software 109
New Framework For Programming Unreliable Chips 128
Inmates Program Logistics App For Prison 98
Larry Page and Sergey Brin Are Lousy Coders 204
MELT, a GCC Compiler Plugin Framework, Reaches 1.0 58
How Your Compiler Can Compromise Application Security 470
Infosys Fined $35M For Illegally Bringing Programmers Into US On Visitor Visas 201
Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos 453
GCC 4.9 To See Significant Upgrades In 2014 191
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose Frameworks That Will Survive? 227
What Employee Lock-In Means At Facebook 391
Ask Slashdot: Do You Use Markdown and Pandoc? 204
Teachers Get 1 Week To Test Tech Giants' Hour of Code 81
Tech's Highest-Paid Engineers Are At Juniper 105
Ask Slashdot: What Are the Hardest Things Programmers Have To Do? 473
Has Flow-Based Programming's Time Arrived? 268
Visual Studio 2013 Released 198
Ask Slashdot: Best Language To Learn For Scientific Computing? 465
Ask Slashdot: As a Programmer/Geek, Should I Learn Business? 167
The Curious Mind of Ada Lovelace 110
How To Develop Unmaintainable Software 211
If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy 577
GNU Make 4.0 Released 179
How DirecTV Overhauled Its 800-Person IT Group With a Game 85
What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? 598
What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov 267
The Changing Face of Software Development 173
How Early Should Kids Learn To Code? 299
Woz Expounds On His Hacking Shenanigans and Online Mischief 65
The Most WTF-y Programming Languages 254
LLVM's Libc++ Now Has C++1Y Standard Library Support 161
Frameworks 5: KDE Libraries Reworked Into Portable Qt Modules 68
Mozilla Plan Seeks To Debug Scientific Code 115
Learning To Code: Are We Having Fun Yet? 226
Ask Slashdot: Prioritizing Saleable Used Computer Books? 219
A C++ Library That Brings Legacy Fortran Codes To Supercomputers 157
NYT Publisher Says Not Focusing on Engineering Was A Serious Mistake 148
Preventing Cheating At Hackathons 104
Ask Slashdot: Attracting Developers To Abandonware? 321
Google Releases Raspberry Pi Web Dev Teaching Tool 68
Ask Slashdot: Are 'Rock Star' Developers a Necessity? 356

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