Last evening I had an interesting exchange with a @GeePawHill on twitter that went something like this:
@GeePawHill: if a function involves a chain of objects, A -> B -> C -> D, and we satisfy ourselves, A works if B works. B works if C works, and so on... ..we have come very close to satisfying…
One of the things that absolutely inspired me in my tenure at Stack Overflow was remote work. In fact, I loved it so much that I chose it as an absolute prerequisite for my next job.
Why do I love remote working? For traditional office jobs, it just makes much more sense. Why should people be force…
If you haven't read my other articles on getting started with coding you should do so before proceeding: I will assume that you can open a JavaScript console and run a basic program, know how to use variables and conditionals.
In the last post we learnt how to make the computer execute commands con…
If you haven't read my other articles on getting started with coding you should do so before proceeding: I will assume that you can open a JavaScript console and run a basic program and know how to use variables
We ended the last instalment with a program that remembers the user's name and greets t…
If you haven't read my first article on getting started with coding I suggest you do so now before proceeding: I will assume that you can open a JavaScript console and run a basic program.
In short, we explained that a program is a series of instructions ("statements") which are run together by giv…
February 17th, 2017 I left Stack Overflow. I remain a moderator on Skeptics where I was elected, but beyond that I am no longer working or managing any other community in the network.
We parted ways very amicably, with lots of support, love and a few tears. I will miss them all terribly.
I joined …
One of the most common questions about programming is what language should be used. I think that at this point in time the answer is clearly JavaScript. The reason is simple: it's everywhere a browser is, and it is powerful enough to be way more than a toy.
How do I get started with JavaScript?
Pr…
An Open Letter from United World College Graduates Regarding the Trump Administration’s Ban on Muslims
We are the alumni of the United World Colleges movement. We are citizens of over 150 countries. We are people of different ethnicities, backgrounds, religions, sexual orientations, genders, poli…
Winter Bash is a festive celebration of Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange communities. People compete to be awarded crazy hats for completing random, and often undisclosed actions. I've been involved in building a lot of this year's celebration, which will start soon and will be kept secret until th…
I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising
curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all,
compassion.
--Kurt Hahn
The recent polemic regarding a speaker being expelled w…
Hi, I'm Marco Cecconi. I am the founder of Intelligent Hack, developer, hacker, blogger, conference lecturer. Bio: ex Stack Overflow core team, ex Toptal EM.
After years of building, our top-notch consultancy to help start-ups and scale-ups create great, scalable products, I think it is high time I added an update to how it is going and what's next for us.
Software engineers go crazy for the most ridiculous things. We like to think that we’re hyper-rational, but when we have to choose a technology, we end up in a kind of frenzy