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After you’ve seen the chart of JavaScript keywords distribution, it’s time to go a bit deeper to the syntax level. This time let’s find out the most popular JavaScript statements. The one I usually see is "Why is this JavaScript so buggy?"
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I was implementing password authentication for VNC in node.js the other day and faced a problem where it would just never successfully authenticate. I checked my implementation several times and it seemed fine. Then I tried to implement it in Python just to see if I was missing something obvious. Let's go to the code and see what's happening. The trouble with cryptography is 7oNv5vlgOCnglRJpgsxw...
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There was a time when I thought it might be worth it to try and create a Software Professional Code of Ethics. Here's what I came up with. Thou shalt not covet they neighbor's monitor.
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You might or might not have heard about the 501 manifesto. A 501 programmer is the one that runs out of the office at 5:01, regardless of any importance of him staying and keep his responsibilities aligned. The addendum of pitying open source or programmers who love what they’re doing is pretty insulting. We (programmers) are a culture now, and usually the passionate ones are the ones that are being mocked. If my job is inspiring me, I’ll stay late at work.
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Today at IBM the US workers who try to save the business are the first in line to lose their jobs. Management accountability is gone. The people who mess up get to keep their jobs; and those trying to retain the business lose their jobs. How fair is that? Big Blue goes for big green... and who will end up paying for it?
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POS website.
No matter how many times I try, it only shows an ad.
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Think of all the data humans have collected over the long history of astronomy, from the cuneiform tablets of ancient Babylon to images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. If we could express all of that data as a number of bits, our fundamental unit of information, that number would be, well, astronomical. But that's not all: in the next year that number is going to double, and the year after that it will double again, and so on and so on. Alberto Conti explains how astronomy has moved from stargazing to number crunching.
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What is randomness? Nobody knows, or at least there’s no consensus. Everybody has some vague ideas what randomness is, but when you dig into it deeply enough you find all kinds of philosophical quandaries. Concerns about a “true” source of randomness are usually misplaced.
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There has been a long-running war going on over the mobile Web: it can be summarized with the following question: “Is there a mobile Web?” That is, is the mobile device so fundamentally different that you should make different websites for it, or is there only one Web that we access using a variety of different devices? You never know better than your users what content they want.
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The game of go is very interesting from an AI programmer’s point of view, because of how difficult it is to make a computer compete against a strong human and how researchers approached the problem. Paradoxically, the use of randomly played games has helped computers get much stronger. Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?
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Not sure why someone duo-voted this, I found it quite interesting.
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
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Garbage and poop jokes aside, idea of using biogas for data center power cells doesn't stink [ITworld]
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When it comes to bills like SOPA and CISPA, money talks. A new site called SopaTrack shines the light on whose votes are for sale, and for how much. [ITworld]
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#10 Tell your Java programmers how much you like .NET and visa versa [ITworld]
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Another. Tell your people HOW to do something, then afterwards, complain they did it wrong! DOH!
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In this installment we talk to Kate Gregory, long-time C++ developer, trainer and consultant. Further adventures with the coders behind the code (and books, and webcasts, and...)
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Every developer faces a situation wherein an application requires an update—for code the developer didn’t write. It’s not that the other developer purposely created a hard-to-maintain application. It’s that you don’t know the other developer’s thought process in putting the application together, making it difficult for you to figure the code out without some help. This article provides some tips to ease the pain and get you started more quickly. It worked on his machine...
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In his On Long Noses, Sampling, Synthesis, Design and Innovation presentation Bill Buxton discussed the origin of new technologies and the implications of that process on designers. Here are my notes from his talk. Until something actually happens, no one believes it can happen.
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I started work with “Xaml-based” platforms in the pre-Beta days of WPF, so I’ve been working with this technology longer than most. Back then I was utterly awed and inspired by it’s capabilities. Today I’m frustrated and sometimes outraged. Welcome to version and platform hell.
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Dataflow programming is a style that describes your data processing as data flowing through a graph of operations, in contrast to the usual imperative processing style. It invites you to think of data operations as a collection of black boxes, linked together by a runtime which takes care of moving data from one box to the next. Processing asynchronous messages, the easy way.
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I was thinking earlier today about what makes me happy--really, truly happy. The desire to learn new things. The desire to build something that has never before been built. The desire to hunt down problems--and then solve them. Programmers get to spend a majority of our time learning things and solving problems.
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The File Transfer Protocol, otherwise known as FTP is 40 years old today. Originally put forth as the RFC 114 Specification on April 16, 1971, FTP (and the various iterations inspired from it) is as heavily used today as it was back then by people and companies all over the world. mput out all those candles and mkdir a wish.
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Quote: mput out all those candles and mkdir a wish.
Or we can upload Forty Files on server.
Happy Programming
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Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the world wide web, has urged internet users to demand their personal data from online giants such as Google and Facebook to usher in a new era of highly personalised computer services "with tremendous potential to help humanity". What hath man wrought?
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