On December 4th, 2022 with 12 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: Since 1999 fiction writers have tried starting and finishing the composition of 50,000-word novels in November...
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On December 17th, 2020 with 69 comments
Last week, some Goodreads users received a disappointing message: The popular book tracking website is disabling access to its API for users who haven't used...
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On September 22nd, 2019 with 103 comments
This week Stack Overflow's CEO/founder Joel Spolsky spoke to Clive Thompson, the tech journalist who just published the new book Coders: the Making of a New...
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On January 21st, 2018 with 71 comments
An anonymous reader writes:
When 24-year-old Donald Knuth began writing The Art of Computer Programming, he had no idea that he'd still be working on it 56...
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On March 16th, 2017 with 52 comments
linuxwrangler writes: For over 4 years, lights atop Adobe's office building in San Jose have flashed out a secret message. This week, the puzzle was solved by...
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On February 8th, 2017 with 92 comments
An anonymous reader writes: People over at DevBooks have analyzed more than four million questions and answers on StackOverflow to list the top of the most...
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On February 9th, 2016 with 119 comments
martiniturbide writes: To promote some new computer coding books for kids, Uborne Children's Books has put online 15 of its children books from the '80s to...
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On January 1st, 2016 with 112 comments
An anonymous reader writes: If you've studied C++ any time in the past 25 years, you've probably read something by Scott Meyers. He wrote Effective C++,...
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On December 21st, 2015 with 49 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Last month 188 entries turned up on GitHub in an event challenging programmers to write computer code to generate 50,000-word...
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On August 18th, 2015 with 48 comments
martiniturbide writes: Remember Jason Scott of Textfiles.com, who wanted your AOL & Shovelware CDs earlier this year? Right now -- at this moment! -- he...
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On November 14th, 2014 with 223 comments
An anonymous reader writes "I will be traveling to a remote Himalayan village for year and won't have access to the internet. What offline resources would you...
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On December 1st, 2012 with 438 comments
JameskPratt writes "This Slate article talks about a single line of code — 10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10 — and how it manages to...
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On September 30th, 2012 with 299 comments
theodp writes "Blogger Floopsy complains that he would love to RTFM, but can't do so if no one will WTFM. 'You spend hours, days, months, perhaps years...
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On February 7th, 2012 with 32 comments
jrepin writes "During a recent 5 day sprint, four KDE contributors planned and produced a handbook for beginning KDE developers. The guide is recommended for...
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On October 13th, 2011 with 46 comments
First time accepted submitter ServerCobra writes "Last week, Mark Pilgrim 'pulled down his popular 'Dive Into...' sites. I remirrored a couple of them, because...
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On October 6th, 2011 with 89 comments
First time accepted submitter microphage writes "Mark Pilgrim, author of many 'Dive into ...' books and guides, has — as the saying now goes —...
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On August 19th, 2011 with 33 comments
thatpythonguy writes "Addison-Wesley publishers has released The Python Standard Library By Example, another Python book that strategically fits in between...
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On June 28th, 2011 with 167 comments
theodp writes "Are you or your kid intrigued by Python, but not quite ready to purchase an in-depth O'Reilly book? Zed A. Shaw's 2nd edition of Learn Python...
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On May 23rd, 2011 with 85 comments
jrepin writes "In new free book the authors of twenty-five open source applications explain how their software is structured, and why. What are each program's...
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