Abstraction is fundamental in software development. What is it? What's its benefits? Should we abstract everything?

TCP, UDP, HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 all explained in plain, sane english. How is HTTP/3 and improvement upon HTTP/2? Is HTTP/2 better than HTTP/1.1?

EPIC JAILBREAK: Introducing checkm8 (read "checkmate"), a permanent unpatchable bootrom exploit for hundreds of millions of iOS devices.

Most generations of iPhones and iPads are vulnerable: from iPhone 4S (A5 chip) to iPhone 8 and iPhone X (A11 chip). …

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Learn how the C# language has changed over its many releases. Learn when different features were introduced in the language.

Performance clearly matters to users. For example, the most common software update on the AppStore is "Bug fixes and performance enhancements." Now that Moore's Law has ended, programmers have to work hard to get high performance for their applications. But…

The following Java program takes on average between 0.50 secs and 0.55 secs to run:
public static void main(String[] args) {
long startTime = System.nanoTime();
int n = 0;
for (int i = ...

And there wasn't a refund policy until folk complained

DOWNLOAD the SOURCE CODE for FREE: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1155530/Source_Code__Break_Arcade_Games_Out/
It's also on GITHUB: https://github.com/DanZaidan/break_arcade_games_out

Watch the ENTIRE development here: https://www.youtube.com/playli…

With the digital equivalent of trowels and shovels, archaeologists are digging into the code of early video games to uncover long forgotten secrets that could have relevance today.

With the digital equivalent of trowels and shovels, archaeologists are digging into the code of early video games to uncover long forgotten secrets that could have relevance today.

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Slides available at https://dconf.org/2019/talks/militaru.html.

D is advertised as a safe and fast systems programming language. “Fast code, fast." is the mantra of the D community. But how fast is it really and how suitable for systems programming? We thought…

AWS has joined the .NET Foundation as a corporate sponsor. We look forward to working with the community and contributing to the future of .NET! https://t.co/sA6CgZWwd2

The last weeks and days have seen some erratic behaviour by Stack Exchange Inc., such as likely illegal changes to the content license and the firing of an upstanding community moderator with no

While Elastic and MongoDB have managed to build big businesses around their open-source software, Docker is looking to private investors to keep going.

Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++. We got a chance to chat with him about the “golden years” of Bell Labs and the top C++ questions on Stack Overflow.

PWLConf 2019 Link: https://pwlconf.org/2019/shriram-krishnamurthi/
Slides / Captions: https://github.com/papers-we-love/pwlconf-info/tree/master/2019/shriram-krishnamurthi

On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages
Shriram Krishnamurthi, Prof. of Computer…