- 2012-03-24 Favourite Programming Language
#programming
Hacker News has two polls:
What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?
Here are plots of the votes:
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- 2010-12-04 eBuddy USB device on Linux
#hardware
#programming
Quite a while ago I bought an "e-Buddy USB MSN/QQ Blinking and Flapping Audio Visual Message Angel" - just for fun. I thought it might be useful at work to...
- 2010-09-25 Jukebox IV - news from the radio
#jukebox
#programming
After changing the system disk in my jukebox from a 7200 RPM to a 4200 RPM disk (less speed → less heat → less noise) I was pretty happy.
But there was...
- 2009-10-25 Illiterate programming
#programming
I'm almost through "Dreaming in Code" - about programming largish things in general, and the Chandler project in particular - by Scott Rosenberg; here is a...
- 2008-12-13 Christmas is coming
#programming
With 11 days (give or take) till Christmas, here are some programming language carols for you to memoize.
Which one did you enjoy the most? Comment! I think...
- 2008-04-26 Donald Knuth
#emacs
#fvwm
#programming
Here is an interview with Donald Knuth, where he - among many other things - expresses his lack of enthusiasm for multicore processors:
They think a magic...
- 2008-03-29 How NOT to hide passwords when entered
#programming
When a user enters a password, it is preferable that the password is not displayed, so a person peeking over the shoulder of the person at the keyboard can...
- 2008-03-21 (A) first rule of programming
#programming
It's Always Your Fault. In my experience it almost always is, but the thrill of proving that there is a fault in someone elses code should not be underestimated...
- 2007-10-17 Beautiful Code: Finding Things
#programming
A month ago I ordered some books. They finally arrived. One of them is
"Beautiful Code",
which contains 33 chapters by diffent authors on, well yes, beautiful...
- 2006-05-26 Patches
#programming
My first, tiny, patch got in PostgreSQL today!
If the patch I've contributed to the clock in Gnome would be accepted as well, I'd be a thoroughly happy camper...
- 2005-07-16 Risk assessment in IT projects
#programming
"Thinking of software as a product rather than a medium in which knowledge is embodied is often a prescription for failure, because it doesn't focus attention...
- 2005-03-31 Japanese release lesson
#programming
'Some Japanese developers aim to release their software in the day. It is a kind of culture.' - The 29th.
- 2005-02-13 Fun with Mason
#perl
#programming
This took some digging to find: out_method doesn't seem to work with ApacheHandler.pm.
Hey, my patch got in!
- 2005-01-17 XMLHttpRequest
#programming
Fun with Javascript: documentation at Apple's place.
A quick, dynamic test-chat.
- 2004-05-23 Evolving programming
#programming
"Software is a product of our imagination, like a book, a painting or a movie, designed to synthesize a particular representation of the real world. But unlike...
- 2004-05-21 Search, news and algorithms
#perl
#programming
#usenet
"Nutch is a nascent effort to implement an open-source web search engine."
"Plucene - A Perl port of the Lucene search engine."
"Papercut is a news server...
- 2004-03-30 Life as a programmer
#programming
A quote, quoted from a thread on Livejournal:
"You know, when you have a program that does something really cool, and you wrote it from scratch, and it took...
- 2001-11-10 (())
#programming
So when today I look at the very few mysterious-looking terms like LAMBDA, CAR, and CDR that still linger untouched in modern Lisp's design, I think of them...