Image by Jason OX4 licensed under Creative Commons. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “Developers in my city are only building luxury housing. They’re not building anything that ordinary people can afford.” This is a common lament in … Read more
Scientists made space exploration history on 12 November 2014 when, for the first time, a space probe landed on a comet. The speeding target was Churyumov-Gerasimenko—a dirty cosmic snowball slightly bigger than Mount Fuji. The probe was the Philae lander—part … Read more
I am often asked what I mean when I say that developers spend most of their time figuring the system out. Let’s unpack the statement. The oldest reference on the topic I know of dates back to 1979 in a … Read more
Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do? 70 points by ConfessionTime 39 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | 59 comments I have been working as a software developer for almost two … Read more
Please sign my guestbook. Have you ever shoved a into a tag? Pixar gets all the accolades today, but in the 90s this was a serious feat of computer animation. By combining these two tags, you were a trailblazer. A … Read more
by Mandeep KaurOctober 20, 2021 People are more than happy to talk about their successes, but if you ask them about their failures, they can be much more hesitant to share. Failure is a subject that, interestingly enough, is entangled … Read more
Emma Woollacott 24 September 2021 at 15:34 UTC Updated: 24 September 2021 at 15:35 UTC High-impact SSRF and request smuggling bugs among flaws addressed in bumper patch cycle Numerous vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.4, including … Read more
On Thursday night, Apple announced an agreement with developers involved in a class-action lawsuit that involved several changes to the App Store. As part of the agreement, which still needs to be approved by a judge, Apple has made several … Read more
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Until its recent demise, Internet Explorer was the browser hated most by web developers. Internet Explorer is now a thing of the past, replaced by the far-better Microsoft Edge. Why did developers and software engineers hate IE so much? Because … Read more