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Why use VIM/Nano/Emacs over VS Code?

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Why does every REST testing software want me to login?

I just want to build requests and read the responses, why the hell does everyone suddenly want me to make an account?

(Discussion, JS) Look at the solution of a problem in Code Wars, then my code. Both achieve the same thing.

I am beginner who thought before doing the String Methods section of the course “You know what, let’s test my skills”. And boy my skills were tested. After I completed the challenge my jaw dropped, with the solution....

Your opinions on Bend (github.com)

New language promises to reduce compilation times by using all threads and gpu cores available on your machine. What’s your opinions on it so far?

As a C beginner, should I be bothered by not being able to understand this? (queue.acm.org)

Most of the stuff went over my head, Why should I care that C is no longer low-level? What exactly is considered close-to-metal in today’s time, apart from binary and assembly?

Help with API design for price pegging with JWT

I had this discussion in my workplace and wanted to share and get opinions from the folks here. (I suspect StackOverflow might not appreciate such open ended questions)....

Why did Cyclone fail?

Cyclone was supposed to be a safer dialect of C. Shouldn’t it have replaced C by now, while also adding some improvements and reducing the burden of legacy code?

C Is Not a Low-level Language. Your computer is not a fast PDP-11. (queue.acm.org)

How to send 1 mln requests asyncronously - mechanism?

One needs to send 1 mln HTTP requests concurrently, in batches, and read the responses. No more than 100 requests at a time....

Any good tips on learning C+?

I have been learning C+ in my coding class, and I was wondering if there is any good website that you could use.

Is the Java ecossystem of languages and related stuff a thing, professionally?

I’m in the course of pursuing a change in my career towards software engineering/architecture. So far I’ve been brought mostly to C#/.NET and Java, though Java attracts me more, even considering that it might be a “dying” language. Still, Scala and Clojure are there, so I thought that they might give a pump at least to...

Where do I look out for an accountability partner or a mentor?

I am trying to complete a few web-based projects as well as a developer portfolio. I am also learning C from scratch. I would appreciate it if I had an opportunity to take part in an open-source project that is based on system programming, or something like that.

Why We Can't Have Nice Software (andrewkelley.me)

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects (www.theregister.com)

Trying to understand how project isolation works in a SAAS platforms.

By project, I am talking about a “virtual” instance. I get to use a computer on their server, but how? Are those virtual machines, or containers?...

Help suggesting the design. (lemmy.ml)

I am currently making my portfolio site using, Angular, and Bootstrap (with custom CSS), and I really need help designing my website....

A Twitter-scale Mastodon instance from scratch in only 10k lines of code (blog.redplanetlabs.com)

Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count (www.quantamagazine.org)

Traditionally, algorithms for counting distinct items in a stream of data would store all the items. A new algorithm, called CVM, uses randomization to estimate the number of distinct items with minimal memory usage. The trick is to keep track of items by recording them and then randomly deleting some. The probability of an item...

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