We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.
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Study Finds Automated Pull Requests Gets More Programmers to Upgrade Code
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Copy&Paste and its effects on Code Quality (approachable summary of research and some insights into OpenSource projects)
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Is Haskell the right language for teaching functional programming principles?
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Failure to make necessary upgrades to software code can have dire consequences, such as the major data breach at Equifax. A recent study finds that auto-fix tools are effective ways to get programmers to make the relevant upgrades - if programmers opt to use them.
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Effective Java, 3rd Edition Coming soon - Covers JDK 7, 8, 9
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Advanced Data Structures by Stanford [pdf]
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A simple django project to create download links for youtube videos.
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WebGL 103 - complex objects part 3- fixing textures and rotations
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Installing Go binaries via Homebrew
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6 Types of Programmers in One Picture
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Learn - Python 3 is the in-demand programming language used extensively by Google. Master Python 3 and you’ll be in demand too!
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Micro-Frontends - Amazing way for code ownership across teams.
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Why you should use Magit: a Git porcelain inside Emacs [x-post from /r/emacs]
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How the KRACK attack destroys nearly all Wi-Fi security
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New PDF of Bartosz Milewski's "Category Theory for Programmers" - now with 100% more math typesetting!
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Keyboard latency
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JavaEE 8: JsonCollectors And The OOP Alternative
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TweakCoder eLearning Solutions’s 8 hours Udemy Course: Learn C programming from scratch and become expert in C . is free for limited time
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Building a Fullstack Serverless App on top of AWS - Backend - Part 1
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XamDroid Pocket: Learn Android programming with C#
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