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It's cheaper to lie to people about a position having a long-term future & getting them on board with a salary than being honest & paying them hourly.

Why Ada Isn't Popular (2014) : Everyone outside the DoD wrote it off as dead in 1998.

> But I would not recommend Clojure as a first Lisp. Its community is very much organized around being a better JVM language You can say that again. If you don't have a background …

We're talking about a website that provides commentary on rap music. You can find things far more misogynistic and tasteless than this idiot's manifesto without even trying. How is…

Google's been an advertising company since the day they realized they could make money off of search.

Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is the Latin for office automation?

Backups? If you lose the outline of a character's life, just kill them off.

The timeless Epigrams on Programming: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html There's a few dated references that show its origins in 1982 but most of the fundamentals…

Falsey objects mean "there's no data here" which is why they're falsey. Having an empty list of arguments to a command is the same as having no argument list. There's nothing about…

Front page exposure on HN will probably be enough to get them to sell out their first print run.

Dreamcast had a modem that was supported by very few games. There was an optional Ethernet adapter that's very rare and supported by even fewer. The ethernet on the PS2 was optiona…

So we all know that everyone is on LinkedIn & every recruiter in the world is spamming us with invites but who the fuck actually uses it & gets any value out of it?

I thought Clojure's biggest problem was barfing giant Java-flavored stacktraces on simple errors?

Google exists to advertise. Academics are woefully underpaid. Who wants to advertise to a bunch of broke intellectuals that are just going to ignore your ads anyways?

Yes, it's free but that doesn't mean it's painless. Going to SP2 and SP3 broke backwards compatibility with some drivers and software. It increased the RAM/CPU requirements for run…

You can't talk about Windows XP like it's a single, fixed point in the release cycle. XP was released in 2001, giving you your 12 year number, but there were also major service pac…

Many people new to IRC feel the need to immediately take their questions to private message. Much of the same logic the blog makes about personal email apply to personal messages o…

...but you can be sure that it's going to be posted every time MongoDB comes up. Somehow, people will vote it up as if it's still funny or adds something to the discussion.

That's not real money, much of that was overvalued Facebook stock.

...and enterprise software vendors (eg - Oracle) officially support their software running on RHEL. If you're paying 6 figures for a software license, the difference between APT an…

Heroku, being top dog of the PaaS market, doesn't really have a lot to gain from being able to migrate. Being a market leader, they're already the default for many projects; a stan…

I'm not saying that it's "too "mathy"", just that it's commonly trotted out as a good resource to develop programming skills when, IMHO, it's better suited to honing mathematical r…

Nor are there articles asking why men aren't nurses, waitresses or receptionists.

I remember them having checksums to ensure line integrity.

PE has always struck me as more focused on math than programming. The easy problems handle brute force but the hard ones are generally bested by a mathematical understanding of the…