Even among people as logical and rational as software developers, you should never underestimate the power of myth. Some programmers will believe what they choose to believe against all better ...

Writing good code is very difficult, challenging if you will, but if you are a good programmer, then you should have no problems getting things under control. However, for those who are new to ...

Yes, this is Lounge-ish, but I think it's relevant here. So, my employer has a requirement that everyone book 40 hours of training per year. I signed up for several C++ modules, realizing that I ...

In my first job out of college, I was assigned the task of rewriting the autocomplete feature of a search page. The original code, entombed in a decrepit codebase, was a nauseating monstrosity that ...

The other day, my friend Ned’s cousin asked Ned what he thought was the best first language for new programmers. The cousin didn’t have much computing experience, but at 15 years old the future was ...

China’s tech sector is strong in part because it has nearly unlimited support from the state, as commentators have noted. Another source of innovation is state coercion. I found this when I researched ...