In the year 2000, NASA engineer Ron Garret first heard about a new search engine named Google — in the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.lisp. On a
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When DeepMind’s ‘AlphaCode’ Competed Against Human Programmers – The New Stack
Can real-world programming problems be solved with state-of-the-art AI? This month DeepMind explored that question, confronting the world with a fresh perspective on programming, and
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Programmers Explore the Secrets of Wordle – The New Stack
As Wordle-mania sweeps the internet, programmers, math geeks and assorted nerds decided to get in on the fun — and they’ve unlocked an explosion of
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Why programmers still love COBOL
The programming language COBOL conjures up images of thin ties, white shirts, spinning tape drives, and all of the glory and pain of the mainframe era.
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Missing Pieces: Why Film Festivals Treat Programmers as Disposable
While the industry relies on programmers, they have never been treated as more disposable. What would it take to change that? With layoffs at Netflix
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Programmers Rev Up Female Superpower
Disney Plus on June 8 will debut the Marvel original series Ms. Marvel, the latest in a string of women-led superhero series that have helped
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C++20 for Programmers 3rd Ed (Pearson)
Subtitled “An Objects-Natural Approach”, this book has been written for programmers with a background in another high-level language. Paul and Harvey Deitel look at modern
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Rotterdam Film Festival Fires Programmers the Industry Should Protect
As the Rotterdam Film Festival fires its programming team, questions arise about what it would take to better protect this profession. Job security in the
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