It’s the most magical time of the year. Many of the world’s absolute best nerds have materialized in a hotel somewhere and are giving talks to each other about the future of programming. I’m of course ...

Computer programs can use data, evaluate if-then conditions on the data and use extremely fast iterative loops to perform these functions. In software programs, these functions get organized into ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started releasing some of its classic operating systems and programs as open ...

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