Post tagged: programming

Staging: What Stack Overflow Can Learn from Git and Garbage Collection

Well, there’s been another I Hate Stack Overflow post on reddit (The decline of Stack Overflow: How trolls have taken over your favorite programming Q&A site), along with some aftershocks. I wrote my own essay on the subject a few months ago (My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow …

Crab Funk I

Darnit, I had the perfect anagram for Brainfuck, and now I can’t remember it. Tried an online anagram generator, not much luck.

• Crab Funk I
• Brick Fun A
• Ark Cub Fin

nope. sigh.

I Am Not Charles Dickens, and Other Reasons There Won't Be an Important Programming Concepts Part VII

In 1836, the London publishing firm of Chapman and Hall hired Charles Dickens, then 24 years old, to write text for what was to be a series of illustrated magazines titled The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. If not the first serial publication, The Pickwick Papers did launch the …