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"I have had projects blow up in my face for having mistakes in them before. I have ne…"Dan Lackey replied Apr 5, 2010 to Instant Runoff Voting - Contest #2 |
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"My project just ran for real. Some of the students are fussing. It is interesting to…"Dan Lackey replied Apr 1, 2010 to Instant Runoff Voting - Contest #2 |
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"All my data is in tables. I used the power of sql to do part of my counting. vote_cn…"Dan Lackey replied Feb 12, 2010 to Instant Runoff Voting - Contest #2 |
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"it is a large project that is not portable. This is why i was not trying to enter it…"Dan Lackey replied Feb 12, 2010 to Instant Runoff Voting - Contest #2 |
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Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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A secure software development life cycle means baking security into plan, design, build, test, and maintenance, rather than sprinkling it on at the end, Sara Martinez said in her talk Ensuring Software Security. Testers aren’t bug finders but early defenders, building security and quality in from the first sprint. Culture first, automation second, continuous testing and monitoring all the way.
By Ben Linders
AWS previews Route 53 Global Resolver, using Anycast to decouple DNS from regional failures. It simplifies hybrid setups with unified public/private resolution, DoH/DoT, and Zero-Trust security.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
In this article author Sachin Joglekar discusses the transformation of CLI terminals becoming agentic where developers can state goals while the AI agents plan, call tools, iterate, ask for approval where needed, and execute the requests. He also explains the planning styles for three different CLI tools: Gemini, Claude, and Auto-GPT.
By Sachin Joglekar
Conducted among over 1,200 respondents, Facebook's 2025 Typed Python Survey highlights how and why Python developers have increasingly adopted the language's type hinting system. The survey also sheds light on what developers value most, as well as their biggest frustrations and wishes.
By Sergio De Simone
Alex Seaton discusses the architecture of ArcticDB, a high-performance Python/C++ library that replaces traditional database servers with a thick-client model. He explains how to achieve atomicity on object storage through bottom-up writes and shares deep insights into conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs). He also explores the pitfalls of clock drift and distributed locking.
By Alex Seaton
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