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Farewell Stack Exchange
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I am no longer a part of Stack Exchange. I still have much literal and figurative stock in the success of Stack Exchange, of course, but as of March 1st I will no longer be part of the day to day operations of the company, or the Stack Exchange...
Jeff Atwood Bids Adieu To Stack Exchange, For The Best Reason Ever
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Jeff Atwood, the co-founder and CTO of Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites mostly about programming and gaming, and Stack Overflow, is stepping down from day-to-day operations at the beginning of next month. Atwood writes on his Coding Horror blog that startup life was having too...
Bootstrapping
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With all the talk of massive amounts of cash sloshing around the web/mobile startup ecosystem (including things I've said recently), you would think that nobody bootstraps anymore. But that is not true at all. Last week my partner Albert blogged about our most recent investment in Behance. Behance was bootstrapped...
Programmer harnesses the power of modern computers to find Waldo with Mathematica
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Stack Overflow, the popular collaborative programming question-and-answer site, is widely recognized as the destination on the web for getting help with your thorny programming problems — like how to find Waldo with Mathematica. Among the thousands of brilliant minds who likely looked at the problem, user Heike's solution was...
Java Leads Programming Language Popularity - Measured by Book Sales
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How do you calculate the popularity of various programming languages? The TIOBE folks try to rank programming language popularity by searching the Web. The RedMonk team pulls data from GitHub and Stack Overflow. But O'Reilly has a unique method: It measures book sales as an indicator of technology trends. By...
Work for Pie closes a $300,000 round to reinvent open-source dev recruiting
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Every so often I get the chance to meet people who I think can really change things. When I met Cliff McKinney and Brad Montgomery of Work for Pie, it was definitely one of those moments. You can read my review of the site here, but the Cliff’s Notes version...
How ResearchGate plans to turn science upside down
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Most startup founders dream of being the next Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. Ijad Madisch, the co-founder and CEO of science network ResearchGate — a five-year-old service that has just announced a new round of venture funding — has rather different ambitions. “When I first met [board member and partner...
RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: CoffeeScript and Java Make Gains
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Here's a tip: If you want to gain traction with developers, having a name that calls caffeine to mind may not be a bad thing. OK, that may not be why CoffeeScript and Java are making gains on GitHub and Stack Overflow according to RedMonk's February 2012 language rankings, but...
Stack Exchange CTO Jeff Atwood Choses Life Over Work, Internet Applauds
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Mr. Atwood Yesterday, Stack Exchange CTO Jeff Atwood did the unthinkable, at least in Startupland where work is your life and companies are talked about and tended to with the same care as young children. On his blog Coding Horror, Mr. Atwood announced that effective March 1st, he would leave...
Gild Grabs $2M To Help Companies Find And Hire Top Programmers
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Unemployment is worryingly rampant in the US right now — which makes the ongoing “hiring crunch” in Silicon Valley even more absurd. It’s fair to say that nearly every single company that TechCrunch is hiring. But they’re not looking for just anyone. They’re looking for programmers. And good programmers are...
Developers Say These Are The Only Two Ways To Get In Touch With Facebook
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We've spoken with a bunch of early and current developers on Facebook and they say there are pretty much only two ways to get in touch with the company: Lurk in Facebook's IRC room, #Facebook. Sometimes, you'll find Facebook employees hanging out in the chat room dishing out advice. Most...
New Programming Jargon
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Stack Overflow - like most online communities I've studied - naturally trends toward increased strictness over time. It's primarily a defense mechanism, an immune system of the sort a child develops after first entering school or daycare and being exposed to the wide, wide world of everyday sneezes and...
Index Shows iOS Programming Language Now In Top 3 As Mobile Development Booms
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According to the TIOBE Index, Objective-C is now more popular than C++, showing proof that mobile development is surging ahead as we enter the post-PC era. Objective-C is the object-oriented programming language used by developers for iOS. It had its start in 1983, the same year C++ was created. C++ proved...
YC-Backed Coderwall Wants to be the Reputation System for Developers
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If coders want to demonstrate their prowess, they can share code on GitHub, answer programming questions on sites like Stack Overflow and Quora, or just blog their thoughts and advice. What’s missing, however, is a site that aggregates all this activity — at least according Coderwall, which is part of...
Day two: Faceplanting into Windows Phone app development
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Woah. Starting to learn mobile development from a knowledge base of nil is fantastically difficult. After floundering about magnificently today, I’ve come to a great number of conclusions. These conclusions will be useful for those of you who have not yet started to learn how to build apps. If you can already...
Ask Stack: How to develop deep programming knowledge?
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The Stack Exchange This Q&A is part of a biweekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 80+ Q&A sites. Robert Harvey asks: Occasionally I see questions about edge cases on Stack Overflow that are...
Adobe Patches Critical Flash Bugs, Ships Sandboxed Plug-in for Firefox
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The flaws were all over the map, and included memory corruption, integer and stack overflow, and security bypass bugs....
Adobe updates Flash with 7 security patches, silent updates for OS X and a sandboxed Firefox plug-in
thenextweb.com
Following an official security bulletin, Adobe has released a major update to Flash which patches a number of critical vulnerabilities, brings silent updates to OS X in preparation for Mountain Lion and packs a sandboxed Firefox plugin, which has been in talks since February, reports Computerworld. Adobe’s silent update feature first hit...
Adobe updates Flash with 7 security patches, silent updates for OS X and a sandboxed Firefox plug-in
Links for 2010-06-08 [del.icio.us]
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Understanding the Psychology of Twitter | Psychology Today More on the Psychology of Twitter | Psychology Today Wrapping It Up: The Psychology of Twitter | Psychology Today The Psychology of Twitter | World of Psychology elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age Lars is Learning: Welcome aboard!...
What every JavaScript programmer should know? - Stack Overflow
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Stack Exchange 2.0
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Like the small-town mayor who suddenly finds herself running an entire state, our ambitions for Stack Overflow keep growing. Our original idea of making the Internet a better place to get expert answers to your programming questions suddenly seemed too small. Programming questions? We asked. Why just programming questions? Why...
Thanks to who ever is up voting all my Stack Overflow StructureMap answers. I am closing in on @jflanagan http://bit.ly/buuFXc
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Thanks to who ever is up voting all my Stack Overflow StructureMap answers. I am closing in on @jflanagan http://bit.ly/buuFXc
LSA - Latent Semantic Analysis - How to code it in PHP? - Stack Overflow
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Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted?
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The prevalence of free, open WiFi has made it rather easy for a WiFi eavesdropper to steal your identity cookie for the websites you visit while you're connected to that WiFi access point. This is something I talked about in Breaking the Web's Cookie Jar. It's difficult to fix...
ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 8 May 2010
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A few weeks ago was the Events Guide's one-year birthday - and while we don't know how many thousands of conferences, unconferences, seminars, summits and meetings we wrote about over the last year, we can say this: It was a heck of a lot. Year two of calendar goodness,...
Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby
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A while ago Jeff and I had Eric Sink on the Stack Overflow Podcast, and we were yammering on about version control, especially the trendy new distributed version control systems, like Mercurial and Git. In that podcast, I said, “To me, the fact that they make branching and merging easier...
How to reduce time spent in meetings as a developer? – Stack Overflow
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What is the single best tactic a developer can use to avoid spending time in meetings? I’m mainly thinking of the seemingly-pointless meetings that (project) managers often schedule, that can be a real barrier to getting real work done. So far, I have had some success with the following...
So You'd Like to Send Some Email (Through Code)
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I have what I would charitably describe as a hate-hate relationship with email. I desperately try to avoid sending email, not just for myself, but also in the code I write. Despite my misgivings, email is the cockroach of communication mediums: you just can't kill it. Email is the...
I may have committed a Stack overflow foul? Is down voting other peoples answers wrong if you are also answering? http://bit.ly/dm84ys
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