Posted by u/nitrohigito - 517 votes and 29 comments

Scrum serves a specific purpose and no more!

There's a rising trend of 'Interviews-as-a-service', a phenomenon that has gained momentum in the remote work era. Scammers exploit the interview process to secure jobs under false pretenses. The scam involves qualified individuals attending interviews and…

Posted in r/programming by u/unixbhaskar • 104 points and 39 comments

As per tradition, the image of this post is generated by DALL-E, and it well represents the content of the article: an investigator (aka Hugo) with his magic lens (LyraSearch) searching for interesting content in a galaxy, far, far away.
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Benchmark ingestion of the TSBS "dev ops" dataset into QuestDB via ILP using the `questdb` Python library and Pandas. - questdb/py-tsbs-benchmark

Benchmark ingestion of the TSBS "dev ops" dataset into QuestDB via ILP using the `questdb` Python library and Pandas. - questdb/py-tsbs-benchmark

Introduces the series Applied Modern C++.

Look, I don’t hate frameworks. I’m not as starry-eyed as some other developers, especially when it comes to back-end frameworks, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using tools that make you productive.

Reckons Dell kit could have stretched that dollar further

I started my career in programming during heydays of Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE). This was late 90s/early 00s, and there was a rich ecosystem of enterprise vendors hawking application servers, monitoring tools, and boxes upon boxes of other fancy solutions.…

New experimental functions for JVM, Improved kotlin-reflect performance, New -Xdebug compiler option, and more.

Recently I approved a pull request from a colleague, that had the following description: “That’s a hacky way of doing this, but I don’t have time today to come up with a better im…

As a developer, you know the importance of staying up-to-date with the newest tools and technologies in order to stay competitive in the industry. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no exception. AI is quickly becoming an integral part of software development…

GitHub has removed a popular Pirate Bay proxy portal from Github.io. In response to an Intellectual Property Crime Unit takedown request, the developer platform took immediate action.

Git users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version, especially if they use `git archive`, work in untrusted repositories, or use Git GUI on Windows.

Posted in r/programming by u/GarethX • 110 points and 19 comments

YJIT, a just-in-time (JIT) implementation on top of CRuby built at Shopify, is now production-ready and delivering major improvements to performance and speed. Maxime shares the updates that have been made in this newest version of YJIT, and future plans…

Google's DeepMind says it could launch a beta of its Sparrow chatbot in 2023 – and it sounds like ChatGPT's more sensible brother.

I tend to launch most programs on my Windows 10 laptop by typing the <Win> key, then a few letters of the program name, and then hitting enter. On my powerful laptop (SSD and 32 GB of RAM) th…

Important, Read This First You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with…