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Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes:
During the U.S. presidential campaign of 1928, a circular published by the Republican Party claimed that if Herbert Hoover won there would be “a chicken in every pot”. Times change. When talk turned to educat…
72-year-old Bjarne Stroustrup invented C++ (first released in 1985). 38 years later, he gave a short interview for Honeypot.io (which calls itself “Europe’s largest tech-focused job platform”) offering his own advice for life:
Don’t overspecialize. D…
In this Help Net Security video, Andy Hornegold, Product Lead at Intruder, dives into API security and explores how several recent high-profile breaches were caused by simple failings – which didn’t require sophisticated security to prevent. The number…
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Measuring, tracking, and benchmarking developer productivity has long been considered a black box. It doesn’t have to be that way.” So begins global management consulting firm McKinsey in Yes, You Can Measure So…
“Serde, a popular Rust (de)serialization project, has decided to ship its serde_derive macro as a precompiled binary,” reports Bleeping Computer.
“The move has generated a fair amount of push back among developers who worry about its future legal and…
Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a prototype pipeline for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that can “distill” binary executables into human-intelligible code so that it can be updated and deployed in “weeks, days, or hour…
Canonical engineering manager Ben Hoyt believes that a variable’s name is more important than its type, so “the name should be more prominent and come first in declarations.”
In many popular programming languages, including C, C++, Java, and C#, when …
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: The necessity of multiple drafts may be an idea that’s drilled into children’s minds by teachers and parents, but in 2023 there’s still a need to remind software engineers to Throw Away Your First Draft of Your …
Michael Larabel, reporting at Phoronix: Alpine Linux remains one of the most popular lightweight Linux distributions built atop musl libc and Busybox. Alpine Linux has found significant use within containers and the embedded space while now sadly the m…
Saleforce’s chief impact officer, writing in Forbes:
Code and computer programming — the backbone of modern business — has a long way to go before it can be called “green…” According to a recent report from the science journal Patterns,…