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The feature in question is intended as an error correction for those cases where the programmer accidentally left out newline. A misguided feature maybe, but it's clearly being abu…

What is insanely stupid is abusing the logical bitwise && operator rather than signifying their intent using a plain old if statement like the language intended.

Geoff, a bit off topic here but do you have any comment on the GPL licensing/linking conversation people have been getting their nickers in a twist about every time meteor comes up…

Since this is clearly making news and some people are using it as an excuse for some axe-grinding it seems like the OP really needs to clarify the context behind the post. What exa…

The title smacks a bit of link bait

I know there's a lot of Java jobs out there, but there's also a whole lot of Java programmers. Would it not be a smarter move to learn something like Scala over Java? I'm trying to…

I have a background in PHP/Ruby/Javascript but also have some experience with Java, Haskell, C and a few others. I've come to the conclusion that I need to specialize in at least o…

I'd be interested to see the results of: Poll: What programming language will provide the most career benefit over the next 5 years? Maybe someone with enough karma (20) could crea…

I would think the fear of current or potential employers using your data against you is just one more thing to add to any unease people may already have about sharing more and more…

Well the point is that by doing rendering on the client side you get most of the latency issues out of the way on first load and actually have a lot more control over its effects o…

I'd be curious as to how much benefit could be derived by moving the business logic in the server side MVC to the database in the form of triggers, stored procedures etc. Seems lik…