As a rule, any mention of religion on an online forum degenerates into a religious argument. Why? Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript or baking or other topics people talk about…

Let’s say we want to some integers from a file. Well, we can’t use InputStream directly, but we can use FileInputStream, a class which inherits directly from InputStream. Unfortunately, FileInputStrea…

Most computers today, for all of their potential speed, are largely a mistake, based on the provenly unscalable Von Neumann architecture, controlled with one of the most shortsighted languages of all…

It doesn’t work like this. http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-keep-your-programming-skills-sharp…

My point is that the syntax is the easy part of learning a new language, just look it up in the manual. It is learning the semantics of the new language and how to use it efficiently to solve your pro…

There has been a vehicle anomaly,” Orbital Sciences, the contractor supplying the rocket, said on its Twitter feed. It added later in a statement, “The vehicle suffered a catastrophic failure. http:/…

I admit: I couldn’t keep up. Just learned Backbone.js and only found out it’s already out of fashion, I probably should have used ember.js. Trying to get a hold of ember.js, someone told me to use Met…

The sad fact is that the sheer number and diversity of languages, tools, frameworks, and platforms available to developers today is incredibly daunting. Of course nobody wants to admit this. Everybody…

* Reading is more important than writing * code should be a joy to read * the language should not hide what is happening * code should do what it seems to do * Simplicity matters…

It’s just like those illegal scalpers offering rides in any airport, except with a smartphone app. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8415229…

So Google is really a trust fund combined with the charities it supports?(I suspect that both of these are true, to some degree). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8509945…

The “Year of the Linux Desktop” has become a meme at this point, one that is used most often sarcastically. Yet there are still a lot of people who deeply hold onto it and think that if only Linux had…