Google I/O 2009 - The Myth of the Genius Programmer

Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman

A pervasive elitism hovers in the background of collaborative software development: everyone secretly wants to be seen as a genius. In this talk, we discuss…

Whether you're new to Go or a seasoned Gopher, you may recognize these steps on the path to Go enlightenment.

Some playful prankster has made a Twitter bot that tweets anytime a developer uses foul language in public commits on GitHub.

Pinball networks

[Here is the talk.](https://pusher.com/sessions/meetup/freecodecamp-vienna/from-self-taught-programmer-to-job) Feel free to ask me anything in...

Scientists celebrate a 19th-century visionary—and the achievements of all women in science, engineering and math

1. It doesn't get easier; you get smarter. Programming is not a simple endeavor. Requirements change in the middle of projects; technology advances quickly and ruthlessly; customers are quick to judge and slow to explain. Programming does not get easier.…

People occasionally ask why LLVM-compiled code sometimes generates SIGTRAP signals when the optimizer is turned on. After digging in, they find that Clang generated a "ud2" instruction (assuming X86 code) - the same as is generated by __builtin_trap().

I am an I.T. professional — How could this happen?

This is Part 6 over 6 of "Coding for SSDs". For other parts and sections, you can refer to the Table to Contents. This is a series of articles that I wrote to share what I learned while documenting myself on SSDs, and on how to make code perform well on SSDs.…

The Gulagu.net rights group told The Moscow Times it has received over 40 gigabytes of files showing inmates being tortured.

This is an unashamedly one-sided post. Enough people have glamorized computer programmers that I don’t feel the need to talk about the upsides. Instead, I’m going to list the seldom described aspects of being a full-time programmer. If you want to pursue…