There have been 2 things I’ve been meaning to do for a while now. The first is to start a blog based on my experiences as a relative newbie in the web industry, and the second is to write a post on my opinions of sexism in the industry based on what I’ve experienced so far.
Quite frankly, there are a lot of f*cking morons on the internet.720 points (79% like it) 972 up votes 252 down votes shortlink: programming subscribeunsubscribe396,182 readers 534 users here now created by speza community for 6 years message the moderators reddit is a source for what's new and popular online.
A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software EngineeringFor reference, on my MacBook, the standard dictionary in /usr/share/dict/words is 2,486,813 bytes and contains 234,936 words. An enticing first option is a data format that's more compressed than raw text. The UNIX dictionary contains stop and stopped and stopping, so there's a lot of repetition.
XML FeverDon't let delusions about XML develop into a virulent strain of XML fever. Erik Wilde and Robert J. Glushko, University of California, Berkeley XML (Extensible Markup Language), which just celebrated its 10th birthday,4 is one of the big success stories of the Web.
SmoothLifeLSmoothLife is a family of rules created by Stephan Rafler. It was designed as a continuous version of Conway's Game of Life - using floating point values ins...
Five Steps to Password Security - Developer Best Practices VideoWe see a lot of common mistakes in password security. From storing plaintext passwords (IEEE) to not salting user passwords (LinkedIn) to using insufficient hashing algorithms like SHA-1.
Readable Specs == Business ValueConsider the situation of a product manager or software architect overseeing the work of several dozen if not hundreds of programmers. If you have been in this situation you know what the problems are
Pay For the Coding InterviewHow much money are you expecting out of the coders you interview? I recently got asked to do an 8 hour project as a coding demonstration for a potential job.
Firefox knows what your friends did last summerMozilla have now fixed the problem on Thursday. Not only did they take down the original release but fixed it very quickly within two days which is very impressive. Good work! The undefined value is converted to a string and then the test returns true.
Why Is Google Not Supporting The Open Document Formats?Microsoft can't be happier than this. For ages I have been convincing people to switch from close source to open source, from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. I have been telling people to ditch the controversial docx format and adopt .
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.