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The Oyster Effect In Software Engineering

Studies have shown that people value the products they own by how difficult they were to obtain. Things become more valuable when a sacrifice of money, time or energy was provided in exchange. This notion has given birth to hundreds of marketing techniques.

"The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong

Joe Armstrong is one of the inventors of Erlang. When at the Ericsson computer science lab in 1986, he was part of the team who designed and implemented the first version of Erlang. He has written several Erlang books including Programming Erlang Software for a Concurrent World. Joe has a PhD in com

C# 6.0 What's New

For many years now, Microsoft has been working on a re-write of their C# and VB compiler. We have known about it for some years now and it came as a big surprise recently when Microsoft announced that they would open source their new compilers.

10 things developers need to shut up about

This post was originally published over at jooq.org, a blog focusing on Java from the perspective of the developers of jOOQ. Some things are just very very very VERY very important. Such as Whitespace:

An Introduction to ASP.NET vNext

The next version of ASP.NET will be completely open source, modular, and feature a no-compile refresh-and-go development process while exploiting the full power of Roslyn and the .NET Framework. Developers will be able to deploy their own private version ASP.

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The Art of Benchmarking

To start with, lets clarify what types of benchmarks we are talking about. Below is a table from the DEVOXX talk by Aleksey Shipilev, who works on the Java Micro-benchmarking Harness (JMH)

Al Jazeera America: The Other America "Fredrick Brennan"

Ideas about a new programming language for games.

My (first?) talk on designing a programming language for games.Given September 17, 2014.

Introducing Tweet-a-Program—Wolfram Blog

In the Wolfram Language a little code can go a long way. And to use that fact to let everyone have some fun, today we’re introducing Tweet-a-Program. Compose a tweet-length Wolfram Language program, and tweet it to @WolframTaP.

This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.

This list is compiled from my Pocket list.