Comment on: Oracle finally targets Java non-payers six years after plucking Sun
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6 27 Nov 2016 04:18 u/derram in v/programmingComment on: This 18-year-old just raised $3.5 million to help developers easily add capabilities to their apps
This 18-year-old just raised $3.5 million to help developers easily add capabilities to their apps | TechCrunch
'RapidAPI, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based startup that enables developers to easily create a back-end for their apps, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding. '
'RapidAPI has meanwhile created what are essentially big repositories of translator units, “so we don’t need an API company to change anything. '
'In the meantime, among the most-used APIs by developers who visit its platform?'
' The Spotify API and the Google Search API. '
'The round was led by Martin Casado at Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from FundersClub, SV Angel and Green Bay Advisors. '
Comment on: Put down the org chart, snowflake: Why largile's for management crybabies
Put down the org chart, snowflake: Why largile's for management crybabies • The Register
"There's a stink growing out there in agile land: a debate over how to scale up agile in large organisations.", "I've spent recent years studying the seemingly impossible task of scaling agile techniques up to large organisations."
'Time and time again, the goal of the agile poets to “remove” the need to align, not facilitate it. ', "Before these organisations even worry about doing agile at scale, there's plenty of work to be done at the team level."
'The formalists want to put in place and document processes that ensure that thousands of people can work in lockstep on software. '
Comment on: Programmers are having a huge discussion about the unethical and illegal things theyve been asked to do
Programmers confess unethical, illegal tasks asked of them - Business Insider
'"Unfortunately, many of todayâ\x80\x99s software developers are self-taught or are learning through so-called 'coding bootcamps,'" says Sourour. '
'The focus is on pumping out people who can write code as fast as possible to satisfy a growing and insatiable market for coding skills," he adds. '
'But Martin pointed out, "The weird thing is, it was software developers who wrote that code. '
'Decades later, he still feels guilty about it, he told Business Insider. '
'He pointed out that "there are hints" that developers will increasingly face some real heat in the years to come. '
Comment on: The Bright Future is here I am from Google Adsense
Work At Home Special Report!
'She says that "Kelly puts her computer to work and makes money while working from home. '
'The best part of working online is that I am always home with the kids, I save a lot of money."'
'"Kelly puts her computer to work and makes money while working from home. '
'"I basically make about $6,000-$8,000 a month online. ', "It's enough to comfortably replace my old jobs income, especially considering I only work about 10-13 hours a week from home."
Comment on: Run a JSON file through multiple parsers and you'll get different results every time
Run a JSON file through multiple parsers and you'll get different results every time • The Register
"That warning comes from software engineer Nicholas Seriot, who last week presented his work on JSON parsers to an audience at Geneva's Soft-Shake Conference."
'The ubiquitous message-passing JSON format is something of an untended garden with plenty of security and stability traps for the unwary. ', "The full results are here; a “red” entry in the table means Seriot's test crashed the parser (bad, because crashes can lead to exploits)."
'There are now six documents that describe it, with differences between all of them; and as a result, no two parsers are quite alike. '
' A “brown” entry – “parsing should have succeeded but failed” – is also dangerous, “because an uncontrolled input may prevent the parser to parse a whole document”. ®'
Comment on: Your experience is probably worth a lot less than you think
Your experience is probably worth a lot less than you think | TechCrunch
'Around the world, veteran developers with “valuable” experience are already being asked, with honest bafflement: “Wait, why are you trying to write an algorithm for this?'
'If you think your experience is automatically valuable, I warn you: think again. '
'Don’t let that happen. “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” That isn’t just good advice; these days, it’s an imperative. '
'The de facto assumption for most of the twentieth century was that experience was assumed high-value unless proven otherwise. '
'Why not just train a model in TensorFlow?”I don’t mean to imply that all knowledge and experience becomes worthless. '
Comment on: Microsoft reveals career-enhancing .PNG files
Microsoft reveals career-enhancing .PNG files • The Register
"Microsoft's ongoing efforts to make its certifications something that shows bosses how very clever you are have given us some new “Digital Badges”."
'Unless of course you see a badge, do Save As and then apply a little mischief. ', "They'll be available as of October 21st. ®Bootnote: The original badges are .PNGs."
' For some reason your correspondent converted them to .JPGs. '
'As of this Friday, those of you holding a Redmondian Seal of Exam Passing Cleverness will be able to download badges like those depicted above (here for those of you on mobile devices) so the world can appreciate your exam-passing excellence. '
Comment on: Stack Overflow puts a new spin on resumes for developers
Stack Overflow puts a new spin on resumes for developers | TechCrunch
'If you want to give it a try, the new service is now available on Stack Overflow; like all of the company’s other services for developers, it’s available for free. '
'Stack Overflow itself only works with employers directly (or the agencies they hire), but doesn’t allow individual recruiters onto its platform, so developers (hopefully) won’t get spammed by them. '
'Stack Overflow, the community site best known for providing answers for all of your random coding questions, also has a thriving jobs board and provides services to employers looking to hire developers. '
'As Stack Overflow VP of Community Product Jay Hanlon told me, in working with potential employers, the team realized that regular resumes put their emphasis on job titles, schools and degrees — but that doesn’t always work for developers. '
'It’s the timeline view that emphasizes your achievements, but even the traditional view puts its emphasis on which projects you have contributed to, which languages you’ve used, which questions you’ve answered on Stack Overflow, etc. '
Comment on: French programmers haul Apple into court over developer rules
French programmers haul Apple into court over developer rules • The Register
'Some companies have already begged Apple to improve HTML5 support in iOS with little significant results."'
'Apple has based its Safari browser on WebKit and requires that makers of competing browsers do the same for inclusion in its iOS App Store. ', "According to French publication Challenges, Nexedi has to spend €50,000 (~$55,860) annually to adapt its ERP5 software so it complies with Apple's rules.", "Nexedi, an open source software company based in France, has filed a lawsuit against Apple in Paris alleging that Apple's App Store contract is unfair."
'Apple has won cases that were based on competition law. '
Comment on: Why Agile is like flossing and regular sex
Why Agile is like flossing and regular sex • The Register
"After roughly 20 years, agile software development has wheedled its way into most every developer's mind as The Way Good Software Is Done.", "Like flossing, while we can all agree agile is a good idea, we're not quite up to snuff on keeping all our teeth in our heads, so to speak."
'Early on in agile, there were some vicious battles around defining The One True Agile, especially as Scrum rose in popularity. '
'"I think from a tactics perspective, Agile is increasingly a 'solved problem'," said Forrester's Jeffrey Hammond when asked about agile adoption in the industry. '
'As Jeffrey adds, "from an adoption standpoint, Agile is a 'work in progress' mainly because Agile is as much about cultural transformation as it is tactics."'
Comment on: [VOATDEV?] Easily get a PNG icon related to any domain name or URL in any size
FUCK FACEBOOK
FUCK FACEBOOK
facebook.com (16x16 pixels)
Comment on: What were some of the first programs you made?
https://gitgud.io/derram/arcitall
The click denying bot was the first thing I wrote alone, though.
Aside from that I've just been writting new comnands for a python irc bot I run.
Comment on: Are coding bootcamps only for the rich?
Are coding bootcamps only for the rich? | TechCrunch
Comment on: Kids can now learn to code with Pocky, the delicious Japanese snack
Kids can now learn to code with Pocky, the delicious Japanese snack | The Verge
Comment on: I made a translator client app that consumes Google/Yandex/Bing web services
Typo:
selected texts in any window you on and
Also, does Google translate still have that ridiculous limit on their api calls?
Comment on: "Can we please get rid of the brain-damaged stupid networking comment syntax style, PLEASE?" Linus Torvalds rants against ugly commenting styles
There's been a big push by progressive outlets to drive Linus out.
This article was actually pretty tame.
Comment on: TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly
TIOBE's Language-Popularity Index Sees A New Top 10 Language: Assembly - Slashdot
Comment on: TIL: In a numeric system of base 'x', 10 is always equal to 'x'. Binary 10 = 2, Decimal 10 = 10, Hex 10 = 16.
Jesse Howell on Twitter: "@notch @kkearns Ah... I get it now. I like Base 10 (binary) and base 10 (hexidecimal), but I use base 10 (decimal) most often."
Comment on: TIL: In a numeric system of base 'x', 10 is always equal to 'x'. Binary 10 = 2, Decimal 10 = 10, Hex 10 = 16.
Best I could do would be to toss the text onto a new line as a quote, the bot is pulling that text from the title since it mainly targets articles.
Comment on: TIL: In a numeric system of base 'x', 10 is always equal to 'x'. Binary 10 = 2, Decimal 10 = 10, Hex 10 = 16.
Can't use quotes on a line that already contains text, >like this.
Comment on: TIL: In a numeric system of base 'x', 10 is always equal to 'x'. Binary 10 = 2, Decimal 10 = 10, Hex 10 = 16.
https://archive.is/tPA4t : Jesse Howell on Twitter: "@notch @kkearns Ah... I get it now. I like Base 10 (binary) and base 10 (hexidecimal), but I use base 10 (decimal) most often."
https://archive.is/xpGlH :
'Java SE is a broad and all-encompassing download that includes Java SE Advanced Desktop, introduced by Oracle in February 2014, and Java SE Advanced and Java SE Suite, introduced by Oracle in May 2011. '
'Java SE is free but Java SE Advanced Desktop, Advanced and Suite are not. '
'Java SE Suite, for example, costs $300 per named user with a support bill of $66; there’s a per-processor option of $15,000 with a $3,300 support bill. '
'And you only become a designated user of, say, Java SE Suite, when you use the necessary bits associated with that profile – and then you pay accordingly. '
'The version of Java in contention is Java SE, with three paid flavours that range from $40 to $300 per named user and from $5,000 to $15,000 for a processor licence. '
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