Programming Stories for 2013

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
Java 8 Developer Preview Released 189
How To Turn Your Pile of Code Into an Open Source Project 176
Would You Tell People How To Crack Your Software? 129
Writing Documentation: Teach, Don't Tell 211
Open-Source Python Code Shows Lowest Defect Density 187
Murdoch's AP Computer Science MOOC Goes Live 67
Code For America: 'The Peace Corps For Geeks' 58
For Education, Why TI-83 > iPad 340
Write Windows Phone Apps, No Code Required 210
How One Programmer Is Coding Faster By Voice Than Keyboard 214
Ask Slashdot: Experiences Working At a High-Profile Game Studio? 189
Back To 'The Future of Programming' 214
NVIDIA Open Sources SHIELD's Operating System 83
Ask Slashdot: Is Development Leadership Overvalued? 252
Using Zillow's Creative Commons Neighborhood Boundary Data For the U.S. 32
The Rising Power of Developers 122
Using Java In Low Latency Environments 371
Ask Slashdot: Is Tech Talent More Important Than Skill? 277
Remember the Computer Science Past Or Be Condemned To Repeat It? 479
22nd International Obfuscated C Code Contest Starts Thursday 1 Aug 2013 48
Hackers Using Bots, Scripts To Lock Down Restaurant Reservations 214
Love and Hate For Java 8 434
Ingy döt Net Tells How Acmeism Bridges Gaps in the Software World (Video) 164
Software Development Employment Rises 45% In 10 Years 118
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Most Painless Intro To GPU Programming? 198
MS Tackles CS Education Crisis With Popularity Contest 141
Eben Upton Muses on the Raspberry Pi, Scratch and, His Love For Parallela 71
Ask Slashdot: Scientific Research Positions For Programmers? 237
Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison 543
Github Finally Agrees Public Repos Should Have Explicit Licenses 120
Former Sun Mobile JIT Engineers Take On Mobile JavaScript/HTML Performance 106
An Interesting Look At the Performance of JavaScript On Mobile Devices 157
No US College In Top 10 For ACM International Programming Contest 2013 199
Why JavaScript On Mobile Is Slow 407
The Pentagon's Seven Million Lines of Cobol 345
Ask Slashdot: Development Requirements Change But Deadlines Do Not? 221
India To Overtake US On Number of Developers By 2017 157
Ask Slashdot: Node.js vs. JEE/C/C++/.NET In the Enterprise? 304
Deus Ex Creator On How a Video-Game Academy Could Fix the Industry 132
Book Review: Programming PHP 3rd Edition 155
Modeling How Programmers Read Code 115
Who Will Teach U.S. Kids To Code? Rupert Murdoch 138
Harlan: a Language That Simplifies GPU Programming 195
Digia Releases Qt 5.1 With Preliminary Support For Android and iOS 86
Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers 641
The Simian Army and the Antifragile Organization 66
How Facial Analysis Software Could Help Struggling Students 90
Ask Slashdot: How Will You Update Your Technical Skills Inventory This Summer? 208
Node.js and MongoDB Turning JavaScript Into a Full-Stack Language 354
Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code 381
Join COBOL's Next Generation 276
Book Review: Puppet 3 Beginner's Guide 81
The Security Risks of HTML5 Development 275
PHP 5.5.0 Released 219
Java 6 EOL'd By Oracle 115
Fixing Over a Decade of Missing Computer Programming Education In the UK 117
Java API and Microsoft's .NET API: a Comparison 319
PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years 336
Lobster, a New Game Programming Language, Now Available As Open Source 153
Revisiting Amdahl's Law 54
Ask Slashdot: How To Start Reading Other's Code? 254
Ask Slashdot: Self-Hosting Git Repositories? 165
The $200,000 Software Developer 473
The Rails Girls Are Coming to a City Near You (Video) 162
Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Another Dev Steals Your Work and Adds Their Name? 480
How Unity3D Became a Game-Development Beast 115
GitHub Back Online After Service Outage 55
Opposition Mounts To Oracle's Attempt To Copyright Java APIs 187
Too Many Smart People Chasing Too Many Dumb Ideas? 376
The Case For a Government Bug Bounty Program 53
When Smart Developers Generate Crappy Code 195
Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Advanced Math In a CS Degree? 656
How Did You Learn How To Program? 623
Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime 404
A Commencement Speech For 2013 CS Majors 144
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Work On Projects While Traveling? 273
Red Hat's Diane Mueller Talks About OpenShift (Video) 21
Google Code Deprecates Download Service For Project Hosting 185
Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Great Hackathon? 79
Ask Slashdot: Moving From Contract Developers To Hiring One In-House? 524
Dart Is Not the Language You Think It Is 312
Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? 524
Open Source Projects For Beginners 212
Intel Rolls Out "Beacon Mountain" Android Dev Platform For Atom 126
How Maintainable Is the Firefox Codebase? 127
Georgia Tech and Udacity Partner for Online M.S. in Computer Science 122
To Avoid Confusion: Oracle's Confusing New Java Numbering Scheme 183
Ad Exec: Learn To Code Or You're Dead To Me 339
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Programmers Who Have Not Stayed Current? 509
Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Programmer At 40? 314
Israeli Singer Publishes a Song In Hebrew — and Perl 69
Btcd - a Bitcoind Alternative Written In Go! 150
The New AI: Where Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence Meet 209
CSS Zen Garden Turns 10 37
Are Contests the Best Way To Find Programmers? 260
450 Million Lines of Code Can't Be Wrong: How Open Source Stacks Up 209
Facebook's Hackathons Get a Rethink 49
Ask Slashdot: How To Handle a Colleague's Sloppy Work? 332
CSS Selectors as Superpowers 190
Can Older Software Developers Still Learn New Tricks? 365
Ask Slashdot: Best OSS Embedded Development Platform 128
KDevelop 4.5 Released 97
Stop Standardizing HTML 302
Overconfidence: Why You Suck At Making Development Time Estimates 297
Dropcam CEO's Beef With Brogramming and Free Dinners 400
In Development: An Open Source Language For Cell Programming 31
Ask Slashdot: Service-Heavy FOSS Hosting? 75
LLVM Clang Compiler Now C++11 Feature Complete 291
Localized (Visual) Programming Language For Kids? 185
Most Projects On GitHub Aren't Open Source Licensed 630
Taking the Pain Out of Debugging With Live Programming 254
Ask Slashdot: Building a Web App Scalable To Hundreds of Thousand of Users? 274
LyX Joins the Google Summer of Code 2013 70
Top Coders Tell Agents, "Show Me the Money!" 288
Qt 5.1 Adds Android and iOS Support 81
Python Family Gets a Triplet Of Updates 196
Mozilla and Samsung Collaborating to Bring New Browser Engine to Android 111
Ask Slashdot: Preparing For the 'App Bubble' To Pop? 240
The Underhanded C Contest Is Back 88
Erlang Getting Too-Big-To-Fail Process Flag 35
Emscripten and New Javascript Engine Bring Unreal Engine To Firefox 124
Everything About Java 8 233
Fantastic js1k Submissions 70
Google Blogger: Vietnamese HS Students Excelling At CS 291
SpaceX: Lessons Learned Developing Software For Space Vehicles 160
Will Donglegate Affect Your Decision To Attend PyCon? 759
GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration 269
DARPA Tackles Machine Learning 95
CS Faculty and Students To Write a Creative Commons C++ Textbook 96
Code.org Documentary Serving Multiple Agendas? 226
Comparing the C++ Standard and Boost 333
Minecraft 1.5 "Redstone" Released 95
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? 635
Ask Slashdot: Where to Host Many Small, Related Projects? 69
Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton: "Programming Will Make You a Better Doctor" 79
KDE Releases Plasmate 1.0, A Plasma Workspaces SDK 16
Developers May Be Getting 50% of Their Documentation From Stack Overflow 418
Ask Slashdot: Monitor Setup For Programmers 312
Is Code.org Too Soulless To Make an Impact? 384
Xiph Episode 2: Digital Show & Tell 50
Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code 265
Ruby 2.0.0 Released 121
Two Years of GNU Guile Scheme 2.0 107
Tizen 2.0 Magnolia SDK and Source Code Released 37
Duke Nukem 3D Code Review 128
Why Hasn't 3D Taken Off For the Web? 320
Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite Monitor For Programming? 375
Ask Slashdot: Spreadsheet With Decent Programming Language? 332
Can You Do the Regular Expression Crossword? 115
COBOL Will Outlive Us All 318
Ask Slashdot: Why Is It So Hard To Make An Accurate Progress Bar? 736
Ask Slashdot: Making Side-Money As a Programmer? 257
Should Techies Trump All Others In Immigration Reform? 231
Crowdsourced Coders Take On Immunology Big Data 31
Ask Slashdot: Do Most Programmers Understand the English Language? 330
Summer Programming Courses Before Heading Off To College? 183
Ask Slashdot: Programming / IT Jobs For Older, Retrained Workers? 215
The History of Visual Development Environments 181
Gnome Goes JavaScript 387
Is 'Brogramming' Killing Requirements Engineering? 432
Microsoft Wants Computer Science Taught In UK Primary Schools 168
Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere 379
What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? 704
Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Team To Write Good Code? 366
You've Got 25 Years Until UNIX Time Overflows 492
JavaScript Comes To Minecraft 149
Corporate Hackathons: the Fine Line Between Engaging and Exploiting 64
GitHub Registers Its 3 Millionth User 64
Java Vs. C#: Which Performs Better In the 'Real World'? 437
Employee Outsourced Programming Job To China, Spent Days Websurfing 457
Doom 3 Source Code: Beautiful 399
Learn Basic Programming So You Aren't At the Mercy of Programmers 313

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