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AdGear – Montreal, Canada – Full Time - Analytics Developer AdGear is a fast-growing digital advertising technology company. We provide software and services for publishers, advert…

No offense, but I'm not sure that the Language Shootout is the best showcase, the SBCL code submitted there could hardly be called idiomatic Common Lisp. Mandelbrot is one of the m…

Maybe it's just his students that are like this, and not all young people. Considering how mediocre and ignorant most journos are, is it that surprising to consider that the same m…

This rant would be worth reading weren't it for the fact that programming language provability is but one of many areas of research in CS, which is something the author doesn't see…

Languages don't matter, eh? A month ago I heard a couple of hackers talk about how they were able to complete a personnel scheduler in Scheme in 20'000 LOC and a few weeks time, wh…

On never using popular products: If you refuse to use certain tools because of religious or ideological reasons then you're just narrow-minded. If you're an start-up entrepreneur, …

640K ought to be enough for anyone!

The smarter students become aware pretty soon that grades are meaningless, and only care about them if they have a good reason to (scholarships, etc). There's a middle ground of fe…

It can be very interesting to see what other coders did and compare it with your own solution, in the messageboard (when you solve a problem you get access to the corresponding thr…

The reason behind full employment of programmers is actually pretty down to earth. Enrollment into CS programs dropped dramatically when the bubble burst, and has remained low to t…

This `Microsoft experience = viruses + popups + hardware problems` complaint may have been true as little as 5 years ago, but it certainly is no longer the case with XP SP2 and Vis…

How do you make sure the times are synchronized? Why don't you just have your server broadcast a bunch of bits that change every minute and use them instead of a timestamp to hash …

I'm a CS grad student at the Universite de Montreal. It's probably not what you're looking for (what's security?), since it's francophone and concentrates mainly on operations rese…

Very interesting work. Could results on 'C++' or 'C#' also appear as results for 'C' though? Or is the search strict enough for that not to happen?