Programming Stories for 2017

2017: The Year in Programming Languages 117
Trump's Website Is Coded With a Broken Server Error Message That Blames Obama 168
A Glitch Stole Christmas: S.C. Lottery Says Error Caused Winning Tickets 113
Russia Lost a $45 Million Satellite Because 'They Didn't Get the Coordinates Right' 101
What Amazon's Alexa Economy Pays the People Building Its Skills 101
How Harvard Teaches CS Students How To Code 138
Rust Blog Touts 'What We Achieved' in 2017 153
Ask Slashdot: How Can Programmers Explain Their Work To Non-Programmers? 340
'State of JavaScript' Survey Results: Good News for React and TypeScript 89
Avast Launches Open-Source Decompiler For Machine Code 113
Microsoft Releases Free Preview of Its Quantum Development Kit 31
Did Programming Language Flaws Create Insecure Apps? 100
What Mistakes Can Stall An IT Career? 207
'24 Pull Requests' Suggests Contributing Code For Christmas 30
Why ESR Hates C++, Respects Java, and Thinks Go (But Not Rust) Will Replace C 608
More Than Half of GitHub Is Duplicate Code, Researchers Find 115
Google Is Working On Fuchsia OS Support For Apple's Swift Programming Language 54
Why Hackers Reuse Malware 27
Deep Learning Is Eating Software 147
ESR Sees Three Viable Alternatives To C 595
Programming Language Go Turns 8 67
WikiLeaks Starts Releasing Source Code For Alleged CIA Spying Tools 102
Google Wants Google Doodles Taught In Public School, Warns Kids They Best Behave 146
Should Developers Do All Their Own QA? 299
Perl is the Most Hated Programming Language, Developers Say 472
Why Do Web Developers Keep Making The Same Mistakes? 335
Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? 481
Profile of William H. Alsup, a Judge Who Codes and Decides Tech's Biggest Cases 49
Ask Slashdot: How Can You Apply For A Job When Your Code Samples Suck? 408
Does the Rise of AI Precede the End of Code? 205
Learn To Code, It's More Important Than English as a Second Language, Says Apple CEO 296
New Video Peeks 'Inside the Head' of Perl Creator Larry Wall 106
Java Coders Are Getting Bad Security Advice From Stack Overflow 236
According To Star Trek: Discovery, Starfleet Still Runs Microsoft Windows 237
Code is Too Hard To Think About 397
Chip Reprograms Cells To Regenerate Damaged Tissue 16
'Tetris' Recreated In Conway's 'Game of Life' 87
Do Strongly Typed Languages Reduce Bugs? 456
Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code 122
Computer Science Degrees Aren't Returning On Investment For Coders, Research Finds 395
Stack Overflow Launches Salary Calculator For Developers 102
Python's Official Repository Included 10 'Malicious' Typo-Squatting Modules 69
Is Python Really the Fastest-Growing Programming Language? 254
Bug In Windows Kernel Could Prevent Security Software From Identifying Malware 75
Following Cheating Scandals, Harvard Dean of Undergrad Ed Visits CS50 Class and Tells Students Not To Cheat 107
Why Oracle Should Cede Control of Java SE 110
Solve a 'Simple' Chess Puzzle, Win $1 Million 125
Do Code Bootcamps Work? 139
Petition Asks the Developers of Phoenix OS to Open Source the Kernel 34
Coders In Wealthy and Developing Countries Lean on Different Programming Languages 92
Google Unveils ARCore, Its Answer To Apple's ARKit 40
Could AI Transform Continuous Delivery Development? 78
A New Non-Money Oriented Crowdsourcing Platform Based On Code Contributions 84
Employers Want More Open Source Workers, Says Linux Foundation Study 164
Software Is Eating the Auto Industry 101
As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check 179
Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership 338
JavaScript Is Eating The World 349
Iowa Computer Programmer Gets 25 Years For Lottery Scam 131
Ask Slashdot: How Can You Teach Programming To Schoolchildren? 353
Red Hat Gives Ceylon To The Eclipse Foundation 97
In Defense of the Popular Framework Electron 138
Google Hires Former Star Apple Engineer Chris Lattner For Its AI Team 49
New 'Asciidots' Programming Language Uses Ascii Art (And Python) 28
Canonical Needs Your Help Transitioning Ubuntu Linux From Unity To GNOME 111
First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role In Spreading Fake News 144
GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers 239
HackerRank Tries To Calculate Which US States Have The Best Developers 66
It Will Take Fedora More Releases To Switch Off Python 2 94
How Rust Can Replace C In Python Libraries 304
How a VC-Funded Company Is Undermining the Open-Source Community 84
College Students Are Flocking To Computer Science Majors 379
IEEE Spectrum Declares Python The #1 Programming Language 372
Facebook Petitioned To Change License For ReactJS 43
Drupal Developers Still Rebelling Against Drupal Leadership 95
Coding School 'The Iron Yard' Announces Closure of All 15 Campuses 101
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Developer Secrets That Could Sink Your Business? 243
TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust 505
Open Source Contributions More Important Than Tabs Vs Spaces For Salary 164
Apple's Pitch To Indian Developers: Think Local, Stay Up To Date, and Aim For Design Awards 35
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? 337
We Need To Reboot the Culture of View Source 305
Amazon's Alexa Passes 15,000 skills, Up From 10,000 in February 90
New Research Explodes Myths About Ada Lovelace 107
Is Ruby's Decline In Popularity Permanent? 253
GitHub Urges Companies To Participate In 'Open Source Fridays' 71
Raspberry Pi Wins UK's Top Engineering Award 54
How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms 132
Why So Many Top Hackers Come From Russia 263
Should Your Company Switch To Microservices? 118
32TB of Windows 10 Internal Builds, Core Source Code Leak Online 201
Intel Quietly Discontinues Galileo, Joule, and Edison Development Boards 95
Community Ports 'Visual Studio Code' To Chromebooks, Raspberry Pi 79
What Happens When Software Companies Are Liable For Security Vulnerabilities? 221
Announcing 'build', Auto-Configuration In 1000 Lines Of Makefile 103
The Size of iPhone's Top Apps Has Increased by 1,000% in Four Years 128
Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs 515
Ask Slashdot: Will Python Become The Dominant Programming Language? 808
Ask Slashdot: How Can Programmers Move Into AI Jobs? 121
Does Silicon Valley Need More Labor Unions? 187
Developer Accidentally Deletes Production Database On Their First Day On The Job 418
Ask Slashdot: What Types of Jobs Are Opening Up In the New Field of AI? 133
Apple's 'Planet of the Apps' Reality Show Is 'Bland, Tepid, Barely Competent Knock-off of 'Shark Tank' 78
Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Team Track And Manage Bugs In Your Software? 189
Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of COBOL, Dies at 89 73
Ask Slashdot: Is There a Way To Write Working Code By Drawing Flow Charts? 264
As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating 250
Are There More Developers Than We Think? 191
Windows Switch To Git Almost Complete: 8,500 Commits and 1,760 Builds Each Day 221
Apple Wants To Turn Community College Students Into App Developers 124
When AI Botches Your Medical Diagnosis, Who's To Blame? 200
'Coding Is Not Fun, It's Technically and Ethically Complex' 359
Java Creator James Gosling Joins Amazon Web Services 90
The Working Dead: Which IT Jobs Are Bound For Extinction? 581
App Maker's Code Stolen in Malware Attack 73
Android Now Supports the Kotlin Programming Language 91
Developer Creates An Experimental Perl 5 To Java Compiler 94
Microsoft Is Surprisingly Comfortable With Its New Place In a Mobile, Apple, and Android World 73
Only 36 Percent of Indian Engineers Can Write Compilable Code, Says Study 210
Ask Slashdot: What Should Be the Attributes of an Ideal Programming Language If Computers Were Infinitely Fast? 326
Should The Government Pay For Veterans To Attend Code Schools? 168
How Scratch Is Feeding Hacker Values into Young Minds 48
NASA Runs Competition To Help Make Old Fortran Code Faster 205
Facebook Rejects Female Engineers' Code More Often Than Male Counterparts, Analysis Finds 450
Power of Modern Programming Languages is That They Are Expressive, Readable, Concise, Precise, and Executable 268
Developer Hacks Together Object-Oriented HTML 184
Should Banks Let Ancient Programming Language COBOL Die? 383
Early Nintendo Programmer Worked Without a Keyboard 111
Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? 418
Flawed Online Tutorials Led To Vulnerabilities In Software 96
Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language? 633
Stack Overflow Reveals Which Programming Languages Are Most Used At Night 99
Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cancelled 36
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop The Deployment Of Unapproved Code Changes? 324
Researchers Determine What Makes Software Developers Unhappy 149
'Pragmatic Programmer' Author Andy Hunt Loves Arduino, Hates JavaScript 185
Drupal Developers Threaten To Quit Drupal Unless Larry Garfield Is Reinstated 478
AI Programs Exhibit Racial and Gender Biases, Research Reveals 384
More Americans Now Work Full-Time From Home Than Walk and Bike To Office Jobs 73
For Programmers, the Ultimate Office Perk is Avoiding the Office Entirely 207
Canada Hid the Konami Code In Its Commemorative $10 Bill Launch 78
Major Banks and Parts of Federal Gov't Still Rely On COBOL, Now Scrambling To Find IT 'Cowboys' To Keep Things Afloat 300
Eric S. Raymond Unveils New List Of 'Hacker Archetypes' 116
Ask Slashdot: Should I Move From Java To Scala? 245
Should The FBI Have Arrested 'The Hacker Who Hacked No One'? 227
Uber Said To Use 'Sophisticated' Software To Defraud Drivers, Passengers 168
Twitter To Developers: Please Love Us Again 143
Salary-Comparing Survey Identifies Top-Paid Developers, Discovers North America Pays Better 267
Tor Browser Will Feature More Rust Code 149
Someone on Medium Just Said C++ Was Better Than C 315
There's A New New JavaScript Framework 70
Ivanka Trump To Take Coding Class With 5-Year-Old Daughter 366
App Store Sales For Android To Overtake Apple's iOS, Research Firm Says 53
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? 548
Prominent Drupal, PHP Developer Kicked From the Drupal Project Over Unconventional Sex Life 656
Stack Overflow Reveals Results From 'Largest Developer Survey Ever Conducted' 139
Performance Bugs, 'the Dark Matter of Programming Bugs', Are Out There Lurking and Unseen 266
GitHub Now Lets Its Workers Keep the IP When They Use Company Resources For Personal Projects 75
O'Reilly Site Lists 165 Things Every Programmer Should Know 234
America's Most Affordable Cities For Tech Workers: Seattle, Austin, and Pittsburgh 127
RedMonk Identifies 2017's Most Popular Languages: JavaScript, Java, And Python 125
Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story? 300
Math Teacher Solves Adobe Semaphore Puzzle 52
Ask Slashdot: How To Teach Generic Engineers Coding, Networking, and Computing? 197
GitLab Acquires Software Chat Startup Gitter, Will Open-Source the Code 28
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Make Novice Programmers More Professional? 347
Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? 235
Douglas Crockford Envisions A Post-JavaScript World 300
An 81-Year-Old Woman Just Created Her Own iPhone App 60
Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer 553
GitHub Invites Contributions To 'Open Source Guides' 54
Arizona Bill Would Make Students In Grades 4-12 Participate Once In An Hour of Code 142
Cloudflare Leaks Sensitive User Data Across the Web 87
Microsoft Research Developing An AI To Put Coders Out of a Job 338
PHP Becomes First Programming Language To Add 'Modern' Cryptography Library In Its Core 204
Slashdot Asks: Are Remote Software Teams More Productive? 165
Apple Announces WWDC 2017, To Be Held in San Jose On June 5-9 63
Google's Not-so-secret New OS 129
How Algorithms May Affect You 85
Is IoT a Reason To Learn C? 374
AI Software Juggles Probabilities To Learn From Less Data 49
H-1Bs Reduced Computer Programmer Employment By Up To 11%, Study Finds 271
Microsoft's Open-Source Graph Engine Takes On Neo4j 17
Chrome's Sandbox Feature Infringes On Three Patents So Google Must Now Pay $20 Million 104
GitHub Commits Reveal The Top 'Weekend Programming' Languages 149
Slashdot Asks: How Do You Know a Developer is Doing a Good Job? 229
The Most Mentioned Books On StackOverflow 92
Goldman Sachs Automated Trading Replaces 600 Traders With 200 Engineers 185
Microsoft Debuts Customizable Speech-To-Text Tech, Releases Some Cognitive Services Tools To Developers 23
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Started With Programming? [2017 Edition] 312
Disney Thinks High Schools Should Let Kids Take Coding In Place of Foreign Languages 328
Developer Argues For 'Forgotten Code Constructs' Like GOTO and Eval 600
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Aggressive Forum Users? 477
GitLab Says It Found Lost Data On a Staging Server 101
GitLab.com Melts Down After Wrong Directory Deleted, Backups Fail 356
US Intelligence Seeks a Universal Translator For Text Search In Any Language 47
Software Engineers Are the Heroes of New Computer History Museum Exhibit 115
Slashdot's Interview With Swift Creator Chris Lattner 85
C++ Creator Wants To Solve 35-Year-Old Generic Programming Issues With Concepts 339
Knuth Previews New Math Section For 'The Art of Computer Programming' 176
New Release Of Nim Borrows From Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp 199
Raspberry Pi Upgrades Compute Module With 10 Times the CPU Performance 71
Meet Lux, A New Lisp-like Language 205
Will The Death of the PC Bring 'An End To Openness'? 501
Node.js's npm Is Now The Largest Package Registry in the World 133
App.net is Shutting Down 30
Author of Swift Language Chris Lattner is Leaving Apple; We're Interviewing Him (Ask a Question!) 339
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Job For This Recent CS Grad? 261
Is The C Programming Language Declining In Popularity? 286
Google Boosts Python By Turning It Into Go 129
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Deal With A 'Gaslighting' Colleague? 433
Microsoft Formally Shuts Down Its TechRewards Program 20
Rumors of Cmd's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated 202
Can Learning Smalltalk Make You A Better Programmer? 343