An interesting comment from the Coverity paper: randomisation is a very powerful technique for checkers that would require exponential work. Unfortunately it increases the likelihood of churn.
miniblog.
Latest Stack Overflow survey has data on loved/dreaded languages, frameworks and DBs, and even coding music preferences!
UI should match users' expectations rather than always being consistent with the rest of the world:
On enabling children to use Internet services in a meaningful way, and a discussion of the benefits:
Changing a project's hosting to GitLab is a major undertaking. When KDE and GHC migrated, they had a tracking issue to list all the painpoints they had!
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/53206
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/55039
A great way to collaborate and for the GL maintainers to see what users need.
Google prefers to index newer pages: https://stop.zona-m.net/2018/01/indeed-it-seems-that-google-is-forgetting-the-old-web/
Perhaps people want newer results more often? The article suggests there's probably a limit how much can be indexed for immediate retrieval.
Rust 1.34, including a subtle issue with a function that should have been unsafe, and a slew of new numeric types!
"everyone who thrives at coding is able to deal with mind-bending levels of frustration[...]
It's not going to get any better, because the better you get, the harder [it] will be. But the pleasure that comes when you finally get things working is [huge]"
Chrome proposing blocking the download of executable files over HTTP from HTTPS web pages:
Using machine learning to assign bugs to the correct component:
On choosing a good syntax for the EBNF specification of your programming language: https://dwheeler.com/essays/dont-use-iso-14977-ebnf.html
I'm a lisper who has spend a little over six months getting up to speed in OCaml, and it's been really interesting. It's been unlike anything I've used before. Thread. https://twitter.com/ShriramKMurthi/status/1088615402551341056
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