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12 programming mistakes to avoid
Just as the art world is filled with wildly divergent opinions about what makes a great work of art, programmers often disagree upon what makes for great code, at least beyond the basic requirement that it shouldn’t crash. Every developer has their own set of rules and guidelines. When a developer says not to do…
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Backblaze (BLZE) Stock: Growing Revenues, Yet Losing Money
simarik/iStock via Getty Images Overview Backblaze Inc (NASDAQ:BLZE) is a cloud storage SaaS company. The company operates similarly to AWS in that it provides a set of application programming interfaces that connect to their server farm in order to allow companies to readily store and query data via the cloud. Backblaze has always had, and…
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Adam Cole’s Official Return To AEW Programming Announced
AEW After suffering a potentially career-threatening concussion at the AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door pay-per-view in June 2022, Adam Cole returned in January to raucous applause during an episode of “AEW Dynamite.” Now, fans are looking forward to when he will make his way back to television. Luckily, they won’t have to wait much longer.…
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If Python is too slow for you, Crystal could be your savior
Learning a new programming language can open your mind in ways you never thought possible. Just like learning a new human language like Spanish or Mandarin, you learn to think in different words and structures. You tap into the cultures and communities of the speakers and learn how they see the world. It’s enriching, to…
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Does Programming A Robot With ChatGPT Work At All?
ChatGPT has been put to all manner of silly uses since it first became available online. [Engineering After Hours] decided to see if its coding skills were any chop, and put it to work programming a circular saw. Pun intended. The aim was to build a line following robot armed with a circular saw to…
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South Dakota lawmakers want to tighten how the state handles parole eligibility
PIERRE — A new bill, called “Truth in Sentence,” would require people convicted of serious violent crimes to serve either all or a majority of their sentence before being eligible for supervised release or parole, a step toward a tougher stance on who gets released from prison. Those in favor of the two-part bill, like…
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C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup defends its safety
The creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup, is defending the venerable programming language after the US National Security Agency (NSA) recently recommended against using it. NSA advises organizations to use memory safe languages instead. Responding to the agency’s November 2022 bulletin on software memory safety, Stroustrup, who designed C++ in 1979, stressed decades-long efforts to enable…
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C++ wins programming language of the year award
The vaunted C++ programming language, which overtook Java last month in the monthly Tiobe Index of language popularity, was the index’s biggest gainer in 2022, Tiobe announced this week. C++ popularity grew by 4.62 percentage points year over year, enough to earn the Tiobe Programming Language of the Year 2022 award. The Tiobe index gauges…
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What We Know About The Series
Ophelia Lovibond and Jake Johnson face off in Minx Season 1 HBO Max’s recent cancellations and original programming removal has caused fans of the streaming service to become concerned. No one wants another Netflix situation with many beloved TV shows not even making it past Season 1. The sudden cancellation of Minx Season 2 and…
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Why Your Code Sucks: Common Excuses for Bad Programming
Dave Farley is a software engineer/author/consultant, as well as a co-author (along with Jez Humble) of the 2010 book Continuous Delivery. After decades in the tech industry, Farley recently took to YouTube to share his “exploration of seven common excuses that software developers make for doing a worse job.” It’s a compelling presentation, helped by…
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