How to put a price on the limits of knowledge

Posted in r/programming by u/louisroy • 201 points and 50 comments

The GCC compiler, like other GNU projects, has long required contributors
to complete paperwork assigning the copyrights on their work to the Free
Software Foundation. That requirement has just been dropped, and
contributors can now attach a Signed-off-by…

Posted in r/programming by u/feross • 158 points and 19 comments

A feature highlight of the new JSON subscript support within PostgreSQL 14.

Slides: https://jacko.io/firehose_of_rust
The slower version of this talk (2h32m): https://youtu.be/FSyfZVuD32Y

Contents:
0:00:00 introduction
0:04:03 references and mutable aliasing
0:06:54 reference lifetime examples
0:22:12 mutable aliasing examples
0:50:16…

Today on the show, we have solving algorithmic programming problems. You know when you interview for a job to write CSS and they ask you to reverse a binary tree on the whiteboard using C and in constant memory space? It's that kind of thing. These problems…

Posted in r/programming by u/tndl • 306 points and 15 comments

Prosus said it struck a $1.8 billion deal to acquire Stack Overflow, an online community for software developers, in a bet on growing demand for online tech learning.

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.

Prosus said it struck a $1.8 billion deal to acquire Stack Overflow, an online community for software developers, in a bet on growing demand for online tech learning.

Renew and Refill Bob Cassettes for 98% Cost Saving! - dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder

Maintaining open-source code is a vital but stressful job. Despite that, a recent Tidelift survey found that almost half of code maintainers aren't paid at all.

Nevod is a language and technology for pattern-based text search. - nezaboodka/nevod

At some point, the house of cards begins to topple over. It’s no secret that the x86 processor architecture is almost aged enough to collect a pension. It is, not to put too fine a point on it, a creaking old bit of wheezing ironmongery that, had the gods…

Posted in r/programming by u/sharafi04 • 109 points and 9 comments

It seems a new trojan is going around and affecting @Apple #iOS builds. I don't know the original method of infection, but I'm starting to see some public repos on GitHub being affected github.com/search?fbclid=…

🦊 I respect proton UI and aim to improve it. Contribute to black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix development by creating an account on GitHub.