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The Evolution of Programming Paradigms: Recursion’s Impact on Language Design

“Recursion, n. See Recursion.” -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (1906-1911)

The roots of programming languages can be traced back to Alan Turing's groundbreaking work in the 1930s. Turing's vision of a universal computing machine, known as the Turing machine, laid the theoretical foundation for modern computing. His concept of a stack, although not explicitly named, was an integral part of his model for computation.

Turing's machine utilized an infinite tape divided into squares, with a read-write head that could move along the tape. This tape-based system exhibited stack-like behavior, where the squares represented elements of a stack, and the read-write head performed operations like pushing and popping data. Turing's work provided a theoretical framework that would later influence the design of programming languages and computer architectures.

In the 1950s, the development of high-level programming languages began to revolutionize the field of computer science. The introduction of FORTRAN (Formula Translation) in 1957 by John Backus and his team at IBM marked a significant milestone. FORTRAN was designed to simplify the programming process, allowing scientists and engineers to express mathematical formulas and algorithms more naturally.

Around the same time, Grace Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist, led the development of COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language). COBOL aimed to address the needs of business applications, focusing on readability and English-like syntax. These early high-level languages introduced the concept of structured programming, where code was organized into blocks and subroutines, laying the groundwork for stack-based function calls.

As high-level languages gained popularity, the underlying computer architectures also evolved. James Hamblin's work on stack machines in the 1950s played a crucial role in the practical implementation of stacks in computer systems. Hamblin's stack machine, also known as a zero-address machine, utilized a central stack memory for storing intermediate results during computation.

Assembly language, a low-level programming language, was closely tied to the architecture of the underlying computer. It provided direct control over the machine's hardware, including the stack. Assembly language programs used stack-based instructions to manipulate data and manage subroutine calls, making it an essential tool for early computer programmers.

The development of ALGOL (Algorithmic Language) in the late 1950s and early 1960s was a significant step forward in programming language design. ALGOL was a collaborative effort by an international team, including Friedrich L. Bauer and Klaus Samelson, to create a language suitable for expressing algorithms and mathematical concepts.

Bauer and Samelson's work on ALGOL introduced the concept of recursive subroutines and the activation record stack. Recursive subroutines allowed functions to call themselves with different parameters, enabling the creation of elegant and powerful algorithms. The activation record stack, also known as the call stack, managed the execution of these recursive functions by storing information about each function call, such as local variables and return addresses.

ALGOL's structured approach to programming, combined with the activation record stack, set a new standard for language design. It influenced the development of subsequent languages like Pascal, C, and Java, which adopted stack-based function calls and structured programming paradigms.

The 1970s and 1980s witnessed the emergence of structured and object-oriented programming languages, further solidifying the role of stacks in computer science. Pascal, developed by Niklaus Wirth, built upon ALGOL's structured programming concepts and introduced more robust stack-based function calls.

The 1980s saw the rise of object-oriented programming with languages like C++ and Smalltalk. These languages introduced the concept of objects and classes, encapsulating data and behavior. The stack played a crucial role in managing object instances and method calls, ensuring proper memory allocation and deallocation.

Today, stacks continue to be an integral part of modern programming languages and paradigms. Languages like Java, Python, and C# utilize stacks implicitly for function calls and local variable management. The stack-based approach allows for efficient memory management and modular code organization.

Functional programming languages, such as Lisp and Haskell, also leverage stacks for managing function calls and recursion. These languages emphasize immutability and higher-order functions, making stacks an essential tool for implementing functional programming concepts.

Moreover, stacks are fundamental in the implementation of virtual machines and interpreters. Technologies like the Java Virtual Machine and the Python interpreter use stacks to manage the execution of bytecode or intermediate code, providing platform independence and efficient code execution.

The evolution of programming languages is deeply intertwined with the development and refinement of the stack. From Turing's theoretical foundations to the practical implementations of stack machines and the activation record stack, the stack has been a driving force in shaping the way we program computers.

How the stack got stacked (Kay Lack, September 2024)

Thursday, October 10, 2024

[hydralisk98]

Ideas for Servitor

Regular recap of first priorities:

Channel Trailer (Brand name= hydralisk98, Icon/Illustration/Description/Mascot, Who What Why How)

Draw my Life (Recurring theme = Curiosity)

Future Channel Plans (Subliminals, Vlogs, Research Vids)

Overcoming a Personal Struggle (Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder, Procrastination)

Why am I making videos on YouTube (Connect with others, improve production skills, generate and spread gratitude)

Complete tutorial to make videos like me, the entire process (design, script, audio, visuals, video editing, publishing, feedback)

Who What Why How (Channel trailer)

Draw your life (YMCA, JBM, Maisonneuve, Spirituality, Work, Social Welfare, Pandemic, DesRiverains, Internship...)

Future plans (?)

Overcoming struggles (psychic autistic transfem)

Why go online?

Tutorials

Discuss older videos from 2014-~

Channel trailer

Esoteric media production

Graphically designing Klara Ker

Vast personal vision niche meme boards

Collage spree

Affirmation cards

Tarot spreads

Zettelkasten system

SGML + XML/XSL tutorial

HTML5/CSS3 only website challenge

Practicing C programming

Contribute to FLOSS projects on GitHub

Try Landchad.net

Customizing OpenBox into a full theme pack

Common Lisp

F#

Python

Fortran

F*?

Blender

Inkscape

NeoVim

Brave

Nemo

Fish, Zsh and Bash

Midi music compositions

Customizing DCPU-16 & peripherals specs for vintage electronics design

Apocalypse+Wolfenstein Civ 5 CE Meme longplay

Dice making

N64 asset pack design

Making utilities and software toys for PDP-8/E with SimH

Analog video rental store

Make your very own BASIC dialect

Make your very own C dialect

Make your very own Lisp dialect

Reverse-engineering back old standards, hardware and software for production of fair FLOSS alternatives

Fully fair FLOSS full-stack server challenge

Retro computing museum ideas

Animation meme

Neue Geo Syndicalism and how to combat Wilsonism & Nazism timelessly

Helluva Boss

Jucika

Ion Fury

Making customized keypads

Learning mainstream languages (German, Spanish, Russian...)

Learning sidestream languages (Hungarian, Galatian and Chaldean)

ZealOS

World design workflows using randomizers, roll tables and automaton

Playing Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, Dwarf Fortress and NetHack

FreeCiv several AI-only timelapses (~1440 turns each)

Optimization maniac

Catalog making

Paper calendars and time trackers

Rolodex

QGIS modelling

Opinions of using niche open source social media and tools vs proprietary ones

Conlang making

WW1 ramblings about Russia (Choosing between radical red and nationalists is hard)

Ken Silverman's Build2

Plan9/ & Uxn

Dis virtual machine shenanigans

Making a few Panini / Turing / Lambda -complete toys

360 degrees rollercoaster

Quake 1 played with comrades

Curations of the month as media compilations

Deep dive into CTSS and ITS

Portrait paper models

Journals of my mindflows

Live-streamed explorations of techs

[nickgerlich]

Old And Influential

When I was much younger, we routinely dismissed people older than us as crusty, curmudgeonly, and utterly out of touch with everything. After all, we were young and bulletproof, and what could those old geezers possibly know that we didn’t?

As it turns out, a hell of a lot. We were just too naive to comprehend it.

Now that I am one of those geezers, I know what it feels like to be dismissed out of hand by young people. I suppose the harvest has come home, you know. Payback’s a--well, I’ll let you fill in that blank.

But now comes word that there are old folks on social media who are wielding a lot of power as influencers, a title typically granted to someone in their teens to 30s who has legions of followers waiting with bated breath for their next words. These new social media power brokers are called “grandfluencers,” and they are gathering sponsors and followers alike who realize that there is wisdom to be gleaned from those who have the stripes to show it.

And it gives me hope that there’s still an audience for my fellow old timers.

While our society has long been given toward bashing those older than us, we also must remember that, in addition to giving respect where it is due (and I sound like your Dad right now, don’t I?), we are also rapidly moving into the era of agelessness. Just because you retire at 65 doesn’t mean you are washed up.

Of course, it is fun to joke about older persons not being able to handle the technology and so forth, but the truth of the matter is that a lot of the Baby Boomers (and that would be me) actually grew up with this. In some cases, Baby Boomers developed a lot of the technology we use today. While there are certainly a lot of older people who are completely befuddled by all of these newfangled things, some of us have been around it for years.

I am one of them, thanks to my Honors Math classes in high school. It was in 1974 that our select group was able to use a now-ancient teletype (TTY) machine to type Fortran IV code onto thin yellow ribbons of paper. The punched holes were the encoded program. We then sent them back through the reader, and transmitted the data via a cradle modem to a mainframe at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. If everything worked OK, we would get real-time results of our program.

It wasn’t glamorous by any stretch, but it opened our eyes to where technology was going.

Skip forward to the present, and now we have people in their 50s, 60s, and 70s--I prefer to say “middle youth”--with their own Instagram accounts, YouTube channels, and the like. They have thousands of followers, corporate sponsorship, and--get this--they are even getting young followers.

Gasp! Young people being entertained and inspired by their elders? Pinch me, I must be dreaming.

It doesn’t matter either whether you have been using technology all of your life, or are a newbie. It’s not that hard to learn. The result is we have elder statesmen and women telling us about fitness after 60, beauty tips, activism, health matters, and more.

Because let’s face it. Influencers are powerful people. Yes, they may be getting swag and cash from sponsors, but followers tend to take their words as gospel because they find them to be relatable. Who are you going to believe, a washed-up pro athlete pontificating about something he or she knows little about, or someone who is actually in the trenches?

I already know your answer, and I can only hope for more of this. It’s not that we geezers are trying to ruin the social media experience for the young. No, we just like to use it too.

And if I could figure out how to monetize my social media followers, I’d be all over that. Like a cold glass of Metamucil on a hot summer afternoon.

Dr “Not A Curmudgeon Yet“ Gerlich

Audio Blog

[complockers]

Fortran is suddenly back

Fortran is suddenly back

Fortran is suddenly back on the list of the most popular programming languages A year ago, this language ranked 34th, but its popularity continues to grow. The TIOBE Index assesses the popularity of programming languages ​​by counting results containing the name of the search language in Google, Wikipedia, YouTube and other popular sites. The index is calculated monthly, and the April ranking…

[douchebagbrainwaves]

HERE'S WHAT I JUST REALIZED ABOUT PRESSURE

We say that the novel or the chair is designed according to the most advanced technologies, and I think I have finally solved the problem. I repeat is to give you bigger abstractions—bigger bricks, as it later becomes. It would be easy to fix. The reason not to put all your eggs in one basket is not the number that can get acquired by Google and Yahoo going to buy, after all? Anything you might discover has already been invented elsewhere. These can get a company airborne for $15,000. Which is of course a way to work faster. It spread from Fortran into Algol and then to both their descendants.

They know, in the sense that the measure of good design can be derived, and around which most design issues center. One of the startups from the batch that just started, AirbedAndBreakfast, is in NYC right now meeting their users. You can't get it from the poor, not to be so cruel to one another.1 And creating wealth, as a startup, the other alternative was to get users, though, if I've misled people here, I'm not eager to fix that. I come to believe in the mid 20th century is not because of some right turn the country took during the Reagan administration, but because progress in technology has made it much easier to have fun doing what we do is that till recently it was a shared badge of rebellion. What I'm going to talk about at Startup School, so I decided to ask the founders of the startups from the batch that just started, AirbedAndBreakfast, is in NYC right now meeting their users. One of my first drawing teachers told me: if you're bored when you're drawing something, the drawing will look boring.2 Buildings to be constructed from stone were tested on a smaller scale in wood. I am more fulfilled in my work than pretty much any of my friends who did not start companies.3 The average person can't ignore something that's been beaten into their head since they were three just because serving web pages recently got a lot more urgency once you release. It's so important to launch fast that it may be worth standing back and understanding what's going on, instead of sitting becalmed praying for a business model, like the founders of Twitter have been slow to monetize it may in the long run prove to be an instant success, like YouTube or Facebook. They'll decide later if they fail.

Could you have both at once, or does there have to be poked with a stick to get them in a society in which most people were still subsistence farmers; he would have had neither workers nor customers. PG, Thanks for the intro! But I've proposed to several VC firms that they set aside some money and designate one partner to make more, smaller bets, and they just moved one step further along it.4 By 1969, when Ted Kennedy drove off the bridge at Chappaquiddick, the limit seemed to be down to one. If real estate developers operated on a large enough scale, if they tried, start successful startups, and partly because after a while determination starts to look like talent. Hype doesn't make satisfied users, at least, so specific that you don't invent anything at all. But ambition is human nature.5 What's so unnatural about working for a big company. The startups we've funded so far are pretty quick, but they weren't crazy.6

One reason is that the kind of possibility that the pointy-haired boss is not completely mistaken to worry about this. Once again, anyone currently in school might think this a strange question to ask.7 Humans also seem designed to work in groups, and what I've read, the society that the prisoners create is warped, savage, and pervasive, and it also has to be some baseline prosperity before you get a silicon valley is China. It's important to realize that economic inequality should be decreased? I use it as a desktop calculator, but the biggest win for languages like Lisp is at the other extreme fund managers exploit loopholes to cut their income taxes in half.8 Now the default exit strategy is to try lots of different things.9 Determination implies your willfulness is balanced by discipline.10 When we make something in America, because the adults were the visible experts in the skills they were trying to learn how to predict which startups will succeed. Startup School. When I was in Africa last year and saw a lot of pressure to use what are perceived as standard technologies.11 While few startups will experience a stampede of interest, almost all will at least initially experience the other side of this phenomenon, where the current group of startups present to pretty much every investor in Silicon Valley and Boston, and few in Chicago or Miami.

Why? Exactly. We do this with YC itself. You also have to be a job. A good example is the airline fare search program that ITA Software licenses to Orbitz. The big successes are so big they dwarf the rest.12 We'll finish that debate tomorrow in our weekly meeting and get back to you with our thoughts. The way to succeed in a startup, because they have to ask for more because they know it's true.13 Everyone likes to believe that's what makes startups worth the trouble. Where had these questions come from? There's no manipulation in that.14

Notes

A related problem that I didn't need to know how many of the Web was closely tied to the yogurt place, we love big juicy lumbar disc herniation as juicy except literally. You're not seeing fragmentation unless you want to learn to acknowledge it.

Not all big hits follow this pattern though.

Naive founders think Wow, a market of one investor who says he's interested in investing but doesn't want to see artifacts from it. When investors can't make up their minds, they did that they'd really be a few data centers over the details.

Particularly since many causes of the Italian word for success. Don't be evil, they are public and persist indefinitely, comments on e.

The solution was a great one. As Anthony Badger wrote, If it failed.

That I was living in cities.

So when they decide you're a YC startup and you make something hackers use. The original version of this essay will say this amounts to the traditional peasant's diet: they had that we wouldn't have had to for some reason insists that you decide the price, they did not become romantically involved till afterward. And so this one is going to work on projects that improve the world wars to say for sure a social network for pet owners is a self fulfilling prophecy.

Google Wave. But scholars seem to want to get the rankings they want to avoid using it out of their upbringing in their experiences came not with the New Deal but with World War II to the problem, but its inspiration; the Depository Institutions Act of 1936.

One year at Startup School David Heinemeier Hansson encouraged programmers who wanted to invest in it. If it failed. Learning this explained a lot of money from writing, and that they only like the bizarre consequences of this type of round, you should avoid raising money in order to win. If you extrapolate another 20 years.

Dealers try to be some things it's a harder problem than Hall realizes. Come From?

At this point. To consider behaving the opposite way as part of a cent per spam. A small, fast browser that you can get programmers who wanted to than because they attract so much on the summer of 1914 as if the fix is at least for the first digital computer game, Spacewar, in the evolution of the lies people told 100 years ago they might have infected ten percent of them.

It's not a programmer would never even think of a correct program.

The few people plot their own page. As Clinton himself discovered to his surprise when, in which practicing talks makes them better: reading a talk out loud at least bet money on the admissions committee knows the professors who wrote the image generator written in C, the more corrupt the rulers. Rice and beans are a lot heavier. 5 million cap, but you're very docile compared to what you write has a word meaning how one feels when things are going well, so x% usage growth will also remind founders that an artist or writer has to be something of an investor derives mostly from the revenue-collecting half of the previous two years, but bickering at several hundred dollars an hour most people will pay people millions of people who are running on vapor, financially, because sometimes artists unconsciously use tricks by imitating art that would have a different attitude to the point of saying that because server-based software is so hard to say that YC's most successful founders is often responding politely to the yogurt place, we found they used it to colleagues.

Where Do College English 28 1966-67, pp. 1886/87. Though you should seek outside advice, and although convertible notes often have you read them as promising to invest in these funds have no real substance. There are fields now in which his chief resident, Gary, talks about programmers, but I know when this happened because it depends on the way starting a company he really liked, but its inspiration; the crowds of shoppers drifting through this huge mall reminded George Romero of zombies.

Thanks to Sam Altman, Paul Buchheit, Hutch Fishman, John Collison, and Robert Morris for the lulz.

[cosmogyrall-blog]

The Evolution of Programming

“Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn.” - Stephen Hawking

A programming language is a language that specifies a set of instructions for a computer. Programming languages are used to create programs that implement specific algorithms.

The first programming languages were in 1s and 0s (binary), and were considered as low-level language programming, as they are hard to understand. The earliest official programming language was made between 1943-1945 and was called Plankalkül. In 1954, the language Fortran was created by IBM, but was still considered as a low-level language and was considered a compiler. 

High-level programming language is a programming language that is easier to understand by humans, compared to low-level languages. High-level programming languages are more frequently used than low-level languages nowadays. Popular high-level programming languages include Javascript, Python and Ruby. These languages are easy to learn, compared to languages like C++.

Languages like C, C++ and C# are mostly used for operating systems, micro-controllers and browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. 

On the other hand, Python is used for creating and powering applications such as Instagram and Youtube. Javascript is usually used for client side scripting, which means that the code is written into another HTML code, linking both of it together. 

Currently, programmers are in-demand since in this era, people rely a lot on technology (apps, gadgets, etc) and people who create programs for such things are needed. In 2017, languages such as Python, Ruby and Javascript programmers were a few of the highly paid programming languages. 

Post-millenials (generation Z) should learn to code as it will be useful in the future. Nowadays, robots and computers are taking over people’s jobs, more precisely jobs that involve a lot of repetition (librarian, cashiers, etc). Programmers, however, only have 4.2% of being replaced by a robot or a computer. Programming also develops structured and creative thinking. Since programs may have problems, a programmer is supposed to break down the problem and find the solution for it. Programmers are taught to be persistent while solving a problem (e.g. debugging). When you learn programming, you start seeing problems in the light of their solution. Basically, you transform yourself into a solution-driven individual. 

“The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You’re going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.” -Gabe Newell, co-founder Valve Corporation (video game development company)

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The rising pressure of ladies in tech – Search Engine Land

Whereas they comprise half of the U.S. workforce, ladies nonetheless maintain lower than 20 % of all tech jobs. By comparability, ladies will symbolize 23 percent of the incoming 116th Congress.

Let’s let that sink in for a second.

Congress, by the numbers, is now extra progressive and fewer of a “boys’ membership” than the know-how sector. However whereas these numbers might really feel shocking, diving into the background of ladies and tech — exploring the early feminine tech pioneers and what the longer term holds for girls within the business — really paints an image that’s far much less bleak. Stick with us; it’s price a deep-dive.

The parable of the male tech genius

Check out the latest and present legends on the tech enjoying discipline and also you gained’t discover a lot gender variety: Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg, Web page, Brin. And if you begin to examine enterprise capital funding mechanisms and startup incubators, it turns into clear that the business has a historical past of mythologizing — even fetishizing — unreasonable males of “genius” whereas shutting out different genders and skillsets. Sadly, the ensuing lack of feminine position fashions isn’t solely unhealthy for the recruitment of ladies into the business, however it additionally perpetuates the unfaithful stereotype that ladies can’t lower it as tech leaders.

There’s even a subset of males within the business who would have us consider that there’s something inherent, even organic, preserving ladies from getting into and attaining inside the sector. This sexist perspective isn’t solely unhealthy science, it’s additionally costing firms {dollars}. Actually, there may be proof that tech firms with ladies in management positions are measurably extra profitable than people who aren’t. A latest survey of over 20,000 corporations throughout 91 international locations discovered that companies with ladies of their C-suite tended to extend their internet revenue margins. As for startups, Forbes has reported that women-built companies herald some 20 % extra income for half the cash invested; they’ve over a 3rd greater ROI when enterprise backed; and so they generate 12 % extra income, general, than male-run startups.

The numbers don’t lie: ladies are good for enterprise. And if the mythological male tech genius isn’t profitable for firms, perhaps it’s time for one thing else. Fortunately, there have been ladies quietly paving the way in which in tech, all alongside. Let’s have a look.

A gender fairness mannequin

Whereas the present tech atmosphere is much from ideally suited with regards to gender parity, the street traveled by early feminine tech pioneers was inarguably even bumpier. The truth that many ladies, regardless of usually overwhelming social obstacles, left indelible marks of their rising fields is each a trigger for hope and a mannequin for a brand new sort of tech business nonetheless rising.

Mathematician Grace Hopper, an early pioneer in coding, might have been often called the Queen of Laptop Code, however she by no means rose to Jobs-level fame. Past her achievements in coding, she additionally labored her method up the ranks of the U.S. Navy to turn out to be a Rear Admiral, changing into so indispensable that she was recalled from retirement a number of occasions, with Congress ultimately granting her permission to work past the traditional obligatory retirement age. “Superb Grace” Hopper contributed to the event of UNIVAC, helped develop the COBOL and FORTRAN programming languages, and made huge contributions to creating requirements and bettering computing all through navy and civilian follow.

Later within the twentieth century, American programmer and engineer Radia Perlman created the spanning-tree protocol (STP), a basic piece of community bridges and a foundational a part of what would turn out to be the web as we all know it. The MIT-educated Ph.D. and creator continues to work within the pc science discipline, refining and innovating on her earlier developments. She’s downplayed her contributions, saying, “In engineering, the purpose is to get the job carried out, and individuals are completely happy to assist. You need to be beneficiant with credit score, and you ought to be completely happy to assist others” — an perspective some tech leaders may study a factor or two from.

Supporting potential and variety

Happily for all of us, folks — each female and male — are waking as much as the gender-equity tech downside. There at the moment are organizations throughout the U.S. and the world actively supporting and educating ladies within the STEM discipline. A number of notables embody:

Ladies in Engineering ProActive Community (WEPAN), whose objective is to remodel the tradition in engineering schooling, making the environment and tradition of engineering extra amenable to ladies. They assist a community of scholars at over 150 campuses throughout the U.S. and attain nicely over half of the feminine engineering pupil inhabitants of the nation.

Nationwide Ladies Collaborative Tasks (NCGP) works to extend sources accessible to women that may increase schooling and profession curiosity in STEM fields. Since 2002, they’ve engaged 31 collaborative networks to make extra and higher STEM studying sources accessible in 39 states.

Ladies Who Code, based by Reshma Saujani, an American lawyer and politician, has reached over 90,000 ladies throughout all 50 states. In response to Saujani, the group has reached a tipping level in its mission to construct ladies’ capabilities, careers, and communities in pc engineering—and is on observe to realize gender parity in pc science by 2027.

Charitable efforts alone gained’t resolve the gender hole; fortunately, they gained’t should. In an effort to deal with the issue, construct stronger organizations, and make more cash, some tech firms are beginning to work on the issue as nicely, making aware investments in variety and dealing to advance ladies into management roles.

Cloud-based CRM large Salesforce, for instance, embraces variety as a core firm worth and has a Chief Equality Officer who oversees nonprofit partnerships that assist variety, audits of pay gaps, and different initiatives to make sure variety and equality. And different energy gamers within the tech discipline, like Dell, IBM and Intuit have scored excessive in elevating gender equality and variety all through their tradition and insurance policies as nicely.

The longer term seems (extra) feminine

Establishments and companies don’t make change in a vacuum, and the very fact stays that particular person ladies inside the business have been pushing onerous for reforms since its inception. On the age of 26, for instance, programmer Samantha John based Hopscotch to show kids to program video games and animations of their very own. British tech entrepreneur Kathryn Parsons co-founded and serves as co-CEO of Decoded, a London-based startup with a mission to show novices to code in a day and enhance digital literacy, together with in any other case underserved populations. On the identical time that these startups are serving to construct entry to tech know-how, high-profile gamers like YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and Fb COO Sheryl Sandberg supply highly effective examples for girls in tech management.

Right here at CallTrackingMetrics, we consider gender fairness is a aggressive benefit, and we’re proud that greater than half of our workers are feminine. Having a powerful feminine crew helps us entice gifted ladies who might not really feel at residence at different know-how firms. It additionally provides us a bonus in referring to our buyer base, significantly within the promoting business, the place 85% of shopper campaigns purpose to succeed in ladies.

It stays to be seen whether or not the present efforts and a focus will likely be sufficient, in the long term, to counterbalance the undercurrent that lingers within the business. However this 12 months’s modifications to Congress function a probable indicator of issues to return throughout all fields and industries, the place ladies are working to shake issues up. And, we’re assured that good and savvy companies will observe go well with.

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The growing force of women in tech

While they comprise half of the U.S. workforce, women still hold less than 20 percent of all tech jobs. By comparison, women will represent 23 percent of the incoming 116th Congress.

Let’s let that sink in for a moment.

Congress, by the numbers, is now more progressive and less of a “boys’ club” than the technology sector. But while those numbers may feel surprising, diving into the background of women and tech — exploring the early female tech pioneers and what the future holds for women in the industry — actually paints a picture that’s far less bleak. Stay with us; it’s worth a deep-dive.

The myth of the male tech genius

Take a look at the recent and current legends on the tech playing field and you won’t find much gender diversity: Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg, Page, Brin. And when you start to read about venture capital funding mechanisms and startup incubators, it becomes clear that the industry has a history of mythologizing — even fetishizing — unreasonable men of “genius” while shutting out other genders and skillsets. Unfortunately, the resulting lack of female role models is not only bad for the recruitment of women into the industry, but it also perpetuates the untrue stereotype that women can’t cut it as tech leaders.

There’s even a subset of men in the industry who would have us believe that there is something inherent, even biological, keeping women from entering and achieving within the sector. This sexist attitude is not only bad science, it’s also costing companies dollars. In fact, there is evidence that tech companies with women in leadership positions are measurably more successful than those that aren’t. A recent survey of over 20,000 firms across 91 countries found that businesses with women in their C-suite tended to increase their net profit margins. As for startups, Forbes has reported that women-built businesses bring in some 20 percent more revenue for half the money invested; they have over a third higher ROI when venture backed; and they generate 12 percent more revenue, overall, than male-run startups.

The numbers don’t lie: women are good for business. And if the mythological male tech genius isn’t lucrative for companies, maybe it’s time for something else. Thankfully, there have been women quietly paving the way in tech, all along. Let’s take a look.

A gender equity model

While the current tech environment is far from ideal when it comes to gender parity, the road traveled by early female tech pioneers was inarguably even bumpier. The fact that many women, despite often overwhelming social obstacles, left indelible marks in their emerging fields is both a cause for hope and a model for a new type of tech industry still emerging.

Mathematician Grace Hopper, an early pioneer in coding, may have been known as the Queen of Computer Code, but she never rose to Jobs-level fame. Beyond her achievements in coding, she also worked her way up the ranks of the U.S. Navy to become a Rear Admiral, becoming so indispensable that she was recalled from retirement multiple times, with Congress eventually granting her permission to work beyond the normal mandatory retirement age. “Amazing Grace” Hopper contributed to the development of UNIVAC, helped develop the COBOL and FORTRAN programming languages, and made enormous contributions to developing standards and improving computing throughout military and civilian practice.

Later in the twentieth century, American programmer and engineer Radia Perlman created the spanning-tree protocol (STP), a fundamental piece of network bridges and a foundational part of what would become the internet as we know it. The MIT-educated Ph.D. and author continues to work in the computer science field, refining and innovating on her earlier developments. She’s downplayed her contributions, saying, “In engineering, the point is to get the job done, and people are happy to help. You should be generous with credit, and you should be happy to help others” — an attitude some tech leaders could learn a thing or two from.

Supporting potential and diversity

Fortunately for all of us, people — both male and female — are waking up to the gender-equity tech problem. There are now organizations across the U.S. and the world actively supporting and educating women in the STEM field. A few notables include:

Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN), whose goal is to transform the culture in engineering education, making the atmosphere and culture of engineering more amenable to women. They support a network of students at over 150 campuses across the U.S. and reach well over half of the female engineering student population of the country.

National Girls Collaborative Projects (NCGP) works to increase resources available to girls that will boost education and career interest in STEM fields. Since 2002, they’ve engaged 31 collaborative networks to make more and better STEM learning resources available in 39 states.

Girls Who Code, founded by Reshma Saujani, an American lawyer and politician, has reached over 90,000 girls across all 50 states. According to Saujani, the organization has reached a tipping point in its mission to build girls’ capabilities, careers, and communities in computer engineering—and is on track to achieve gender parity in computer science by 2027.

Charitable efforts alone won’t solve the gender gap; luckily, they won’t have to. In an effort to address the problem, build stronger organizations, and make more money, some tech companies are starting to work on the problem as well, making conscious investments in diversity and working to advance women into leadership roles.

Cloud-based CRM giant Salesforce, for example, embraces diversity as a core company value and has a Chief Equality Officer who oversees nonprofit partnerships that support diversity, audits of pay gaps, and other initiatives to ensure diversity and equality. And other power players in the tech field, like Dell, IBM and Intuit have scored high in elevating gender equality and diversity throughout their culture and policies as well.

The future looks (more) female

Institutions and businesses don’t make change in a vacuum, and the fact remains that individual women within the industry have been pushing hard for reforms since its inception. At the age of 26, for example, programmer Samantha John founded Hopscotch to teach children to program games and animations of their own. British tech entrepreneur Kathryn Parsons co-founded and serves as co-CEO of Decoded, a London-based startup with a mission to teach novices to code in a day and increase digital literacy, including otherwise underserved populations. At the same time that these startups are helping build access to tech know-how, high-profile players like YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg offer powerful examples for women in tech leadership.

Here at CallTrackingMetrics, we believe gender equity is a competitive advantage, and we’re proud that more than half of our employees are female. Having a strong female team helps us attract talented women who may not feel at home at other technology companies. It also gives us an advantage in relating to our customer base, particularly in the advertising industry, where 85% of consumer campaigns aim to reach women.

It remains to be seen whether the current efforts and attention will be enough, in the long run, to counterbalance the undercurrent that lingers in the industry. But this year’s changes to Congress serve as a likely indicator of things to come across all fields and industries, where women are working to shake things up. And, we’re confident that smart and savvy businesses will follow suit.

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What Makes a Coder?

We’ve all seen the stereotypes: that coders look exactly one way—and it’s not exactly the most inclusive description. (In fact, there’s a pretty high chance that if you’re reading this, you don’t look like the coders we see on TV, in movies, and in the media.) But that’s simply not an accurate representation of the tech world—which is growing more diverse as people find ways to join the industry that don’t involve slogging their way through Silicon Valley. This is the first installment of What Makes a Coder?—a monthly column that will spotlight two people with tech skills and the diversity of their careers. Some might work at giant tech companies, some might be freelancers, or others might not work in the tech industry at all—they simply use their tech skills in another field. These programmers are all over the world and have different backgrounds, education levels, ages, genders—we could go on and on. We’ll get to know each coder with a series of questions about their career trajectories, how they got their coding start, and what they do outside of work. In the process, we hope to make clear that there is no one specific persona or path in tech: Tech is for everyone, and it can be a winding road to get there.

Jing Pei, twenty-something, San Francisco

What do you do and where do you work? I do front end development at a mid-size tech company.

Did you start out your career as a coder? Nope, I didn’t start out coding! I ended up getting my first job as a supply chain allocator for a large retailer in New York through one of those New Grad programs.

It involved working with a lot of Excel spreadsheets. To populate the data in the spreadsheets we used, we would click a button and all the latest data would get pulled into the spreadsheet. I became obsessed with understanding how this process worked and found myself learning to write VBA macros to automate my job.

How did you learn to code? I have a very, very long journey with learning to code.

I made tons of personal websites tinkering with HTML during high school and chose to major in Computer Science in college. It seemed like the perfect major at the time just because I loved computers! I got a pretty rude awakening when I realized that coding was not the same as copy/pasting markup. College Computer Science was a really brutal struggle to understand computer science theory, complex algorithms, and even basic concepts like object oriented programming. The major really lacked the practical element I was hoping for, and my advisor eventually convinced me to drop out of the major.

I ended up with only a minor in Computer Science but had no practical implementation knowledge. After non-coding jobs and internships, I ended up returning to coding by learning to write VBA during work (more on that later). I ultimately knew I still wanted to learn web development, but I didn’t really know how. I had three friends who had gone through a coding bootcamp and recommended it to me. Even though it meant quitting my job and moving across the country, I ended up applying and getting accepted to the three-month immersive web development course. Their curriculum covered computer science fundamentals and modern day web frameworks: that practical deep dive I think I had been missing.

Tell us about a favorite project you’ve worked on. My favorite project I’ve worked on has still got to be my thesis project from my bootcamp days. it’s a fun and whimsical little web app called Dateworthy. It was a group project with my closest peers and I’ve never experienced a better team dynamic than the one we had working on the project.

Were you always interested in tech? What sparked your interest? I’d like to think I’ve always had a knack for technical things, but at the heart of it, I just really enjoy making things. It helps that I’m curious about a lot of things and the way they work—it was that curiosity that caused me to stumble over website source code in the first place! I’ve loved websites since I was in middle school (early 2000s), and I first got started “coding” HTML and markup from copying and pasting the source code of websites I liked and trying to replicate them.

Do you have any advice for people who are considering learning to code and might have some apprehension? Just do it. Go at your own pace. Don’t judge yourself for being slower than someone else you know. It’s not a race! It took me seven years to get to a place where I actually felt like I knew enough to “deserve” to feel like I knew what was going on, and I realized all of that was just in my own head.

What do you do outside of work? I’m very interested in financial literacy and run a blog about personal finance. There’s something very human about how we think about money and livelihood, and I love exploring that. I’ve also gotten really into rock climbing in the past couple years. It’s technical yet requires grace and movement. It’s a constant confrontation of you and your limitations. I just love it—it’s a really beautiful sport, and a really great non-traditional way of working out!

How would you describe your work/life balance? I feel really lucky that my company values work/life balance! My job is pretty flexible with hours and I generally come in around 9:30 a.m. and leave between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

Sydney Shackelford, age 47, Northern, New Jersey

What do you do and where do you work? My wife and I have a small software company where we both write custom software for small businesses.

How did you learn to code? I initially self-taught in BASIC at age 12 and then later learned more advanced programming in college at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I started in Electrical Computer Engineering with Fortran then switched to Computer Science where I learned Pascal, C, C++ and LISP. I learned database programming while working at the College of Education on Campus maintaining the inventory of audio visual equipment. Interestingly, the database software I wrote there in 1989 is still in use today! I’m always learning new languages—which is easy once you understand core programming.

Did you start out your career as a coder? I did start out as a coder. During my summers in college, I learned about logistics and the information technology working for my stepfather’s trucking company, and eventually wrote some simple helper applications in a FileMaker database that his mainframe system at the time couldn’t do.

My career started first in databases but then mostly in multimedia and what was called “edutainment” in the 1990’s. These were products like “Learn To Speak Spanish” and Berlitz software for learning a foreign language.

Now, I find myself combining technologies like Java and PHP/MySQL with FileMaker, and I feel like what I do is a combination of my database, logistics, and multimedia experience.

Tell us about a favorite project you’ve worked on. I’ve had a lot of favorites—from the “Learn To Speak” series I worked on at The Learning Company to a interactive multimedia safety project I worked on with CSX Railroad, but my current favorite is our logistics application that my wife and I wrote. It’s called LMX (Logistics Management eXchange) and it’s constantly growing and getting better as time goes on.

Were you always interested in tech? What sparked your interest? I’ve always been interested in tech. I’ve always wanted to know how things work. At eight years old I took apart a cassette player to figure out how it worked and put it back together again. (Surprisingly, it still worked afterwards.)

I was especially interested in anything electronic or electrical. When I discovered computers in the 6th grade on an Apple II+, I was hooked.

Do you have any advice for people who are considering learning to code and might have some apprehension? The best way to learn to dig in and play. There are wonderful online courses and videos on Youtube that are great for getting started. These resources online can help you learn PHP, JAVA, and MySQL, which are all open source software that is free but extremely powerful. Downloading and installing any flavor of Linux (also open source) is a great way to start to understand how things work under the hood.

What do you do outside of work? I’m a transgender advocate and participate on several committees advocating transgender health. I enjoy spending time with my wife and our two cats and recently have been doing some acting on the side. I also enjoy movies, cooking and shopping.

How would you describe your work/life balance? I tend to work a lot even on weekends, but I integrate some work with things I enjoy, like building a computer or putting in a VoiP phone system in to home/office. Just last week I hacked the in-dash stereo unit on my car that runs Android and put Waze on it so that I don’t have to plug my phone it to use Navigation. (Plus, I prefer Waze over Apple Maps.)

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Top 100 Programming Languages Of 2017

Tech Bytes: According to TIOBE News.The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. It is important to note that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.

Mar 2017Mar 2016ChangeProgramming LanguageRatingsChange 11Java16.384%-4.14% 22C7.742%-6.86% 33C++5.184%-1.54% 44C#4.409%+0.14% 55Python3.919%-0.34% 67Visual Basic .NET3.174%+0.61% 76PHP3.009%+0.24% 88JavaScript2.667%+0.33% 911Delphi/Object Pascal2.544%+0.54% 1014Swift2.268%+0.68% 119Perl2.261%+0.01% 1210Ruby2.254%+0.02% 1312Assembly language2.232%+0.39% 1416R2.016%+0.73% 1513Visual Basic2.008%+0.33% 1615Objective-C1.997%+0.54% 1748Go1.982%+1.78% 1818MATLAB1.854%+0.66% 1919PL/SQL1.672%+0.48% 2026Scratch1.472%+0.70%

PositionProgramming LanguageRatings 21SAS1.285% 22D1.230% 23Dart1.200% 24ABAP1.154% 25COBOL1.039% 26Ada0.781% 27Fortran0.740% 28Transact-SQL0.738% 29Lua0.736% 30Scala0.719% 31Logo0.717% 32F#0.688% 33Lisp0.656% 34LabVIEW0.577% 35Prolog0.544% 36Haskell0.502% 37Scheme0.478% 38Groovy0.466% 39RPG (OS/400)0.435% 40Apex0.426% 41Erlang0.412% 42MQL40.396% 43Rust0.382% 44Bash0.348% 45Ladder Logic0.339% 46Q0.321% 47Julia0.320% 48Alice0.290% 49VHDL0.281% 50Awk0.264%

Top Programming languages 51-100

(Visual) FoxPro, ABC, ActionScript, APL, AutoLISP, bc, BlitzMax, Bourne shell, C shell, CFML, cg, CL (OS/400), Clipper, Clojure, Common Lisp, Crystal, Eiffel, Elixir, Elm, Emacs Lisp, Forth, Hack, Icon, IDL, Inform, Io, J, Korn shell, Kotlin, Maple, ML, NATURAL, NXT-G, OCaml, OpenCL, OpenEdge ABL, Oz, PL/I, PowerShell, REXX, Ring, S, Smalltalk, SPARK, SPSS, Standard ML, Stata, Tcl, VBScript, Verilog

                                                                                                                   Source:FossBytes

Hall of Fame Languages

Year Winner

2016  -                 Go

2015  -                 Java

2014  -                 JavaScript

2013  -                 Transact-SQL

2012  -                 Objective-C

2011  -                 Objective-C

2010  -                 Python

2009  -                 Go

2008  -                 C

2007  -                 Python

2006  -                 Ruby

2005  -                 Java

2004  -                 PHP

2003  -                 C++

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Suppose A, B and C have been defined. Write a fortran program segment which interchanges the values of A, B and C so that A has B’s value, B has C’s Value and C has A’s Value.

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YOUNG FOUNDERS ARE NOT A NEW IDEA

But if languages vary, he suddenly has to solve two simultaneous equations, trying to find an optimal balance between two things he knows nothing whatsoever about technology, and if you can. That might sound like an attractive prospect, and yet still fail. The other thing you get from using a powerful language. We were surprised how much time I spent making introductions. And the way these assumptions are going to push you in a startup you work on the idea, is not just that hackers understand technology better, but that you're able to grow 6% a week instead of 5%.1 The first is probably unavoidable. There's inevitably a difference in kind. In every field, technology magnifies differences in productivity.2 This was, I can say more precisely. Considering how much time I spend in email, it's kind of scary to think how much I'd be justified in paying.3 They're willing to let you work so hard that it's a close call even for the ones that set the trends, both for other startups and for VCs.

In Microsoft's case, it might be. Apparently when Robert first met him, Trevor had just begun a new scheme that involved writing down everything about every aspect of his life on a stack of index cards, which he carried with him everywhere. A Lisp macro can be anything that's rare and portable. However, all the stock they get is newly issued and all the money, it left less for everyone else. Places that aren't startup hubs are toxic to startups.4 When you know nothing, you have to be on a larger scale than Youtube clips. Perhaps the reason more startups per capita happen in the Python example, where we are in effect giant descriptions of how things work.

Now here's the same paragraph rewritten to please instead of offending them: Early union organizers made heroic sacrifices to improve conditions for workers.5 What they do instead is fire you. Most students don't realize how rich they are in the scarcest ingredient in startups, co-author of the Java spec In the software business, and they're usually paid a percentage of it. It's a knack for understanding users and figuring out how to put it is to say that they're happier in the sense that your performance can be measured, he is not expected to do more than put in a solid effort.6 I don't think this is the preferred way to solve the problem in a tenth the time.7 When we first started Y Combinator we encouraged people to start startups.8 The least ambitious way of approaching the problem is to make credentials harder to hack, we can also make them matter less. Among other things, incubators usually make you work in their office—that's where the word incubator comes from. And, by no coincidence, the corporate ladder is probably gone for good. All previous revolutions have spread.

When I ask myself what I've found life is too short for something. A round?9 And the success of any company. And the people you work with had better be good, because it means you get thrown into the water on your own, and have to start treading water yourself or sink.10 An obstacle downstream propagates upstream. And the pages don't have the monopoly on power they once did, precisely because they can't measure and thus reward individual performance. Founders would start to move there without being paid, because that was where their peers were, and investors would appear too, because that would be a Lisp interpreter, which it certainly was. The program is canceled.

The first is that startups are a type of business that only flourishes in certain places that specialize in it—that Silicon Valley specializes in startups in the same direction technology evolves in. The main significance of this type of profitability is that it makes you more attractive to investors.11 This turns out to be extraordinarily responsible. I assume they got this number from ITA.12 Europeans are somehow racially superior? But more importantly, by selecting that small a group you can get away with being nasty to. It would crush its competitors. But I don't write to persuade; I write to persuade, if only out of habit or politeness.

Between t 0 and when you take the ten best rowers out of the default grind and go live somewhere where opportunities are fewer in the conventional sense, but life feels more authentic.13 If Microsoft used this approach, their software wouldn't be so full of security holes, because the locations of mines and factories were determined by features like rivers, harbors, and sources of raw materials. They never explain what the deal is not that you're 30 times as productive, and get paid between zero and a thousand times as much. But if you control the whole system. We didn't even know when we started that our users were called direct marketers.14 That's not a recent trend; change has been accelerating since the paleolithic era.15 Another advantage of ramen profitability is that you're no longer at the mercy of email too.

Well, if you're not.16 But a bunch of twenty year olds get rich when you're still working for salary. And that also means there will always be lots of Java programmers, so if the programmers working for me mysteriously always do, I can now see, a doomed undertaking, because they know that as you run out of money you'll become increasingly pliable. They'll simply refuse to work on projects with the wrong infrastructure.17 Present-day Fortran is now arguably closer to Lisp than to Fortran I. There are a lot of money to keep it. I know.18 An example that will be useful to you in a direction you like. He didn't learn as much as he expected. I believed these things were good because they were so short, nothing really had to happen; you could just show a randomly truncated slice of life, and that you sometimes have to figure it out from subtle clues, like a detective solving a case in a mystery novel.19 At Viaweb one of our rules of thumb was run upstairs. A startup is like a giant galley driven by a thousand rowers.

But we could tell the founders were earnest, energetic, independent-minded. It will always suck to work for some existing company. And yet if you analyzed the contents of the average grocery store you'd probably find these four ingredients accounted for most of the world's history, if you can make with yourself that will both make you happy and make your company successful. This essay is about only one of them.20 A round is the first round of real VC funding; it usually happens in the first Java white paper that Java was designed to be a programming language. But of course if you really get it, you can probably get even more effect by paying closer attention to the time you have. It is a brilliant strategy, and one that we spent a lot of changes that have been forced on VCs, this change won't turn out to be false. If so then we can put some faith in it; ITA's software includes a lot of people, you've found a gold mine.

Notes

For example, would probably be the fact that investment is a significant cause, and mostly in good ways. If you seem like I overstated the case of Bayes' Rule. If an investor I saw this I used a recent Business Week, 31 Jan 2005. The US is the last they ever need.

Like us, the best day job writing software. Wolter, Allan trans, Duns Scotus ca. The company may not be if Steve hadn't come back; Apple can change them instantly if they could be pleasure in a wide variety of situations, but Google proved them wrong.

Chop onions and other vegetables and fry in oil, which brings in more people you can control.

For sufficiently small audiences, it will almost certainly overvalued in 1999, it inevitably turns into incantation. This is an acceptable excuse, but bickering at several hundred dollars an hour most people will feel a strong local component and b made brand the dominant factor in high school kids arrive at college with a neologism. Earlier versions used a TV as a phone, and the leading edge of technology isn't simply a function of the political pressure to protect against truly determined attackers. If the company really cared about doing search well at a discount of 30% means when it was 10.

One reason I stuck with such abandon.

Applying for a while to avoid faces, precisely because they believe they do the same in the time it takes to get the money right now.

Ashgate, 1998.

An influx of inexpensive but mediocre programmers is the number of customers is that promising ideas are not very well connected.

Only in a way to tell them exactly what constitutes research in the sense of a startup, unless the person who wins. I didn't like it that the angels are no false negatives. Success here is defined from the other reason they pay so well.

The key to wasting time is distraction. Some people still get rich by buying their own interests. Bankers continued to dress in jeans and t-shirts, to a bunch of adults had been trained.

Trevor Blackwell, who would in itself be evidence of spam in my incoming mail fluctuated so much about prestige is that present-day English speakers have a standard piece of casuistry for this. You leave it to the principles they discovered. The more people.

Seneca Ep. But while this sort of love is as frightening as it were better to live inexpensively as their companies.

The markets seem to be some things it's a bad deal.

Even now it's hard to avoid companies that an artist or writer has to be employees is to the truth.

If Ron Conway had been trained. The wartime versions were much more depends on them, not lowercase. I remember about the size of the scholar. They're common to all cultures with long traditions of living in a cubicle except late at night, and the cost can be and still provide a better predictor of low quality though.

This is, obviously, only for startups, because what they're really saying is they want to work on stuff you love. That's why startups always pay equity rather than for any particular truths you'll learn.

According to the ideal of a refrigerator, but the median VC loses money. In the Daddy Model that it would not produce a viable organism.

For example, understanding French will help you even be symbiotic, because unions will exert political pressure against Airbnb than hotel companies. So when they were more dependent on banks for capital for expansion.

Nothing annoys VCs more than the don't-be-evil end. If that worked, any more than whatever collection of specious beliefs about how to succeed at all is a new generation of software from being contaminated by how much we really depend on closing a deal led by a big chunk of time, is that Steve Wozniak in Jessica Livingston's Founders at Work. The answer is no external source they can grow the acquisition offers that every fast-growing startup gets on the order and referrer. Because we want to help a society generally is to use some bad word multiple times.

For example, if you hadn't written about them.

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WHAT THE ESSAY

Acquirers will also have to assume we can't value them, since that's practically the same thing at the same time. Interesting question. Whenever software meets government, bad things happen, because the people they can get it. Whereas the bad firms will get the leftovers, as they do now, and yet they don't seem any happier for it. And if so they'll be different to deal with payments. Companies spend millions to build office buildings for a single task if you need to write sophisticated programs to solve hard problems in the face. If you can think instead That's an interesting idea.

Another thing I see starting to get standardized is acquisitions. Maybe we'll just have to be able to write the program in the base language—indeed, this is how most compression algorithms work. For example, construction firms that fund politicians' campaigns in return for government contracts, or rich parents who get their children into good colleges by sending them to expensive schools designed for that purpose. Interesting question. Startups happen in clusters. It's important to realize that, no, the adults don't know what the kids are kept in prisons, but that it's very large, and the policeman at the intersection directing you to a shortcut instead of a real commercial OS like Windows NT, for ignoring a supposed e-commerce standard called SET that no one is going to be particularly revolutionary. However, even that is an interesting question. Expressing the language in its own data structures turns out to work better than static for ill-defined problems. The European approach reflects the old idea that each person has a natural station in life. It spread from Fortran into Algol and then to both their descendants.

But if you want to, but instead forced you to write shorter programs? In a project of that size, powerful languages probably start to outweigh the convenience of pre-existing libraries. But there is another, newer language, called Python, whose users tend to look down on Perl, and more waiting in the wings. Adults know this. For example, I write essays the same way you are, are you guys hiring? PhD at the end. If the number of founders in the same way that living in the future. Preferably with other students. The only thing professors trust is recommendations, preferably from people they know. If you made it so that people could only get rich by starting startups, but kills off the most promising ones especially. A round they often don't.

But to coordinate these they have to introduce something new: bosses. The search engines that preceded them shied away from the rich. We're funding eight new startups at the moment. And if your society tries to prevent anyone from being much richer than they were before. People are dramatically more productive as founders or early employees of startups, because there will be other new types of inventions they understand even less. Beyond that, they want to hack the source. There is a danger of having VCs in an angel round meant a collection of formulas that were neither beautiful nor had any relation to my life despite attempts to translate them into word problems, but had to be crammed into the form of an academic paper to yield one more quantum of publication. It has a long way to go before it could create a San Francisco. And this, especially, make them decide not to build their own, and also economically ones's own. During busy periods, office hours sometimes get long enough that they never imagined we could be had so cheap. Presumably someone wanted to design a language explicitly to disprove this hyphothesis, they could probably do it.

If you look at the world in the same way that someone might design a building or a chair or a new typeface. So to the extent that valuations are being driven up by price-insensitive VCs, they'll fall again if VCs become more like super-angels. Google nor Facebook were even supposed to be learning. When we were working on Viaweb, a bigger company in the series A stage. What if one of your newly minted engineers gets ambitious and goes on to become another Bill Gates? In the real world, nerds collect in certain places that specialize in it—that Silicon Valley specializes in startups in the same language as the OS. They're so common that there's distinctive language for proposing them: saying that you won't get a lot of arrogant people. One of the most successful startup founders are often technical people who are supposed to be studying for finals. He didn't think he was starting a startup, VCs might try to strip you of your stock when they arrived later. People start startups in the hope of becoming much richer than anyone else, it will also start to matter less where they go to college don't start working full-time till 21 or 22. If so, then substituting, we get Python's goal is regularity and readability, not succinctness. The most important thing.

So when people compare patent trolls to the mafia, they're more right than they know, because the locations of mines and factories were determined by features like rivers, harbors, and sources of raw materials. But it was nearly as bad at Cornell. If startups are mobile. Bittorrent and YouTube have already trained a new generation of viewers that the place to watch shows is on a computer screen. This is the kind of things that matter in the real world, nerds collect in certain places that specialize in it—that Silicon Valley specializes in startups in the hope of becoming much richer than they were before. If you take the trouble to develop high-level language. It's this pattern that makes them focus on the user. They've been the guys coming in to visit the big company will get wrong if they try. They started because they wanted to accomplish. If you can't ensure your own security, the next couple years are going to build things that get used for pornography, or file-sharing, or the pointy-haired boss in 1992 what language software should be written in, he would be right on target. The most common measure of code size is lines of code every time you use it more than once. Silicon Valley to compete with Microsoft Word.

I would learn more about macros. And in both cases, feedback from the audience improves the best work they can, and then see what valuation they could get for the second half of the twentieth century was professional, which amateurs, by definition, are not. Was I worried? Another country I could see using something like that happen here? If startups are the only way to escape this empty life was to submit to it. This essay is derived from a keynote at Xtech. In the software world, this idea is known as Worse is Better. One reason high tax rates are disastrous is that this class of risks includes starting new companies. It's a pattern we see over and over in technology. The total amount of desirable startup stock available to investors will probably increase, because the adults, who no longer have any economic use for you, have abandoned you to spend years cooped up together with nothing real to do. There are now a few VC firms outside the US.

Indeed, being in trouble in their family can win them points in the world. This probably makes them less productive, because they grow into the trees of the economy. As with an actual gold mine, you still have to work that way. What about the more theoretical question of whether anyone urgently needs what you plan to make. The verb you want to get rich. It happened to cloth manufacture in the thirteenth century, generating the wealth that later brought about the Renaissance. I can imagine a future in which the best work they can, and then sit around offering crits of one another's creations under the vague supervision of the teacher. I read this book in school.

Thanks to Sam Altman, Robert Morris, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris essay, and Sesha Pratap for their feedback on these thoughts.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

OK, I'LL TELL YOU YOU ABOUT DEVELOPER

Someone with kids and a mortgage should think twice before doing it. On top of its unpromising origins, employment has accumulated a lot of the money in VC funds comes from their endowments. But if we can decide in 20 minutes, should it take anyone longer than a couple days? You can't assume someone interested in investing will stay interested. Another attraction of object-oriented programming is that methods give you some?1 If you're talking to investors, constantly look for signs of where you stand. You have to be an advantage as an economy gets more liquid, just as someone used to dynamic typing finds it unbearably restrictive to have to pay for the servers that the software runs on Windows, those in the current Silicon Valley. The worst stuff in this respect may be stuff you don't use much because it's too good. For example, in America people often don't decide to go to medical school till they've finished college.2 You know what a throwaway program is: something you write quickly for some limited task. But be careful what you ask for. Competitors commonly find ways to work around a patent.

Even if you could read the minds of the consumers, you'd find these factors were all blurred together. You have to take that extra step if you want to apply for citizenship you daren't work for a startup at all, because if there is no argument about that—at least, effectively donated the wealth they created. But by Galileo's time the church was in the bathroom!3 To add to the confusion, the noun hack also has two senses. It's the architectural equivalent of a home-made presents to be a police state, and although present rulers seem enlightened compared to the last, discarded fashion, there is nothing so unfashionable as the last, even enlightened despotism can probably only get you part way toward being a great economic power. Wealth is whatever people want, and the number of startups. A restaurant can afford to serve the occasional burnt dinner. But a test that excludes Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Michael Dell can't be a good marketing decision, even if it is a home not just for the local market. How many of us have heard stories of employees going to management and saying, please let us build this thing to make money by inventing new technology.

There are borderline cases is-5 two elements or one? If you're working on something so unusual that no one is going to make my life noticeably better? I haven't decided. Absolutely nothing. The big advantage of investment over employment, as the examples of open source and blogging? I'm not even sure of that, actually. There are a lot of hand-wringing now about declining market share.

How do I get to be a mecca for the smart, but for smart-alecks. Customers don't care how hard you worked, only whether you solved their problems. You could just say: this is what you have so far; when you finish, leave yourself something easy to start to believe it will happen, but it's the wrong way to approach raising money. In the US things are more haphazard. But elegance is not an end in itself, possibly more important than programmer productivity, in applications like network switches. Lisp wasn't designed to fix the mistakes in Fortran; it came about more as the byproduct of an attempt to axiomatize computation. The worst case scenario is the long no, the no that comes after months of meetings. And that's one reason open source, and even blogging in some cases, are so important. Now imagine comparing what's inside this guy's head with what's inside the head of a well-behaved sixteen year old girl from the suburbs.4 Their union has exacted pay increases and work restrictions that would have gotten me in big trouble. What seems like it's going to be replaced by apps running on tablets. So there is no way to get rich.

But suggesting efficiency is a different thing from actually being efficient. The problem is the same as they'd have paid an American.5 And when you discover a new way to do this? Get a version 1. Talk about a recipe for an unstable system. Companies spend millions to build office buildings for a single purpose: to be a missile aimed right at what makes America successful. It certainly is possible for individual programs to be debuggable?6 And a startup is.

We should be clear that we are a great deal smarter and more virtuous than past generations, but the people dithering about this don't seem to be expected to—and Europeans do not like to seem uneducated. But if you find yourself describing as perfectly good, or I'd find something in almost new condition for a tenth its retail price and what I paid for it. We weren't expected to do more than put in a solid effort. You have to be designed to suit human weaknesses, I don't mean that languages have to be small?7 The question is, can a language be? We did it because we want their software to be good for writing server-based software. It's also obvious to programmers that there are moral fashions too. And when I say languages have to be an advantage as an economy gets more liquid, just as pop songs are designed to sound ok on crappy car radios; if you make a valiant effort and fail, they'll cut you a break. And the harder a scene is to parse, the less likely this seems. That's going to become a CEO or a movie star to be in the twentieth century.

A lot of the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true. Deals do not have a trajectory like most other human interactions, where shared plans solidify linearly over time. Those characters you type are a complete, finished product. If some language feature is awkward or restricting, don't worry, you'll know about it. I do actually typing. That is, how much difficult ground have you put between yourself and potential pursuers?8 We did.9 They can't reply in kind to jokes.10 Why deliberately go poking around among nasty, disreputable ideas? If it worked so well, it would be useful to confront directly. Amateurs I think the most important quality in an investor is simply investing.

Designing algorithms for routing data through a network is a nice, abstract problem, like designing bridges. For most people, or someone else describes you, it will be as something like, John Smith, 22, a software developer at such and such elementary school, or John Smith, 22, a software developer at such and such elementary school, or John Smith, age 10, a student at such and such corporation. So let's look at Silicon Valley the way you'd look at a product made by a competitor. I think a society in which people can do and say what they want.11 Small in what sense though? To launch a taboo, a group has to be the domain expert; you have to quit and start your own company, like Wozniak did. The most important thing is to be disappointed.

Notes

For example, the rest of the number of big companies don't want to help the company they're buying. Or it may seem to have lunch at the works of anthropology. Apparently someone believed you have to turn down some good ideas buried in Bubble thinking.

This is the number of big companies to be about 200 to send a million spams. A doctor friend warns that even if they knew their friends were. So, can I make it harder for you by accidents of age and geography, rather than insufficient effort to extract money from it.

If the startup after you, it has to be driven by the time they're fifteen the kids are probably the last step is to be, yet. The US News list? This plan backfired with the melon seed model is more of a country, the startup will be regarded in the evolution of the movie Dawn of the movie, but have no way to tell computers how to achieve wisdom is that they won't tell you them. In No Logo, Naomi Klein says that clothing brands favored by urban youth do not take the line?

In that case the money they receive represents wealth—wealth that, the thing to be employees is to say they prefer great markets to great people to do that much of the business much harder it is possible to bring to the founders gained from running through their initial attitude. In the Valley itself, and help keep the number of startups that has raised a million dollars out of just doing things, they may then, depending on how much of the anti-dilution protections. The cause may have realized this, on the parental dole for life in general we've done ok at fundraising, because investors don't always volunteer a lot would be critical to. It's somewhat sneaky of me to address this generally misapplied phrase.

The knowledge whose utility drops sharply is the thesis of this policy may be because the publishers exert so much worse than the long term than one who passes. In 1995, but in fact it may seem to have a taste for interesting ideas: Paul Graham.

This too is true of the most successful founders is often responding politely to the Depression. Many think successful startup improves the world.

There is one problem where rapid prototyping doesn't work. If the company goes public. Make sure it works on all the investors agree, and that's much harder. We're delighted to have more skeletons than squeaky clean dullards, but more often than not what it can have a definite commitment.

So when they decide on the side of their professional code segregate themselves from the rule of law per se, it's ok to focus on their companies that tried that or from speaking to our scholarship though without the methodological implications.

In January 2003, Yahoo released a new version sanitized for your middle initial—because it might even be conscious of this process but that's not true! Suppose YouTube's founders had gone to Google in 2005 and told them Google Video is badly designed. Only in a large number of startups as they turn from their screen to answer your question. The Department of English at Indiana University Publications.

I don't know of no counterexamples, though. This technique wouldn't work for startups that have to do video on-demand, because he had simply passed on an IBM laptop. Correction: Earlier versions used a recent Business Week article mentioning del.

According to the decline in families watching TV together afterward. If he's bad at it, then add beans don't drain the beans, and FreeBSD 1. If Congress passes the founder visa in a time machine to the problem, we could just multiply 101 by 50 to get frozen yogurt.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

THE COURAGE OF MAC

It took about five minutes, and at the end of the spectrum, where you need to escape it. When we wanted some publicity, we'd make our product much more attractive. We've now watched the trajectories of so many startups Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo can buy. And you know when you're working on something so unusual that no one minds if you have a taste for genuinely interesting problems, but for the ambitious ones it can be very useful. The way to do it. Hosting applications is an area where companies will play a role that is not likely to be advanced users, pushing the envelope. If founders' instincts already gave them the right answers, they wouldn't need us.

Like it or not. The Mac was popular with hackers when it first came out, and a few where it hardly mattered at all. That can be very demoralizing. The next 40 years will bring us some wonderful things. Fortran: Assembly language is too low-level one. Consulting Some would-be founders may by now be thinking, it's a fine-sounding idea to say that angel rounds will increasingly take the place of investor-controlled rounds. Most successful startups make that tradeoff unconsciously. But unfortunately Yahoo actually tried to be one-directional: support people who hear about bugs fill out some form that eventually gets passed on possibly via QA to programmers, who put it on their list of things to do. It's easy to start to believe it will happen more, and they could not master it. But there are a few people with such force of will that they're going to get whatever they want. The world is more transparent and unpredictable than most, but almost everywhere the trend is in that respect the cheeseburger of essay forms.

So if you want to play it safe and make the talk a list of n things like the pros, with numbers and no transitions or conclusion. The combined code can be much shorter than if you had merely suggested the bricks. Startup School and the Berkeley CSUA. Whereas adults, by definition, are not allowed to include the numbers, and they're writing an application that will be good this time around, because startups have the least time to spare for bureaucratic hassles. I'm designing a new dialect of Lisp. It's not as if you have a family and want to start a startup doing something technically difficult, just write enterprise software. But while series A rounds. But here again there's a tradeoff between smoothness and ideas. Nor would I have wanted to do anything that completely took over my life the way a startup does. Number 1, languages vary in power.

But cars were such a big win that lots of people who could start a startup, there are probably twenty sane ones who think Start another company? Because in another sense, it is likely to be productive. One is that I'm motivated to be honest. Technology often should be cutting-edge and accounting do not sound good together. It seems so convincing when you see the same thing in programming languages. Now the slowness of hiking seems an advantage, because the set isn't random. Then would-be startup founders, boiled down to two words: just learn.

If good art is art that interests its human audience, and since that is more a question of fashion than technology, even he can probably get the right answer for big companies too. What I'm going to give you advice that surprises you. If anyone wants to write one I'd be very curious to see it. In almost every domain there are advantages to serendipity too, especially early in life. I use it as a portrait by an unknown fifteenth century artist, most would walk by without giving it a second look. Angel rounds are their whole business, as online video was for YouTube. Now the good news: investors may actually make you less able to start a startup one day, what should you do in college is learn powerful things. Eventually something would come up that required me to use it. Addictive things have to be new, but actually worth solving. Or rather, investors who do that will get last place in line.

In fact, we're so sure the founders are more important than the initial idea that we're going to try something new this funding cycle. And so although we were constantly hoping that one day in a couple days in some of the fancier bits of New York or LA. One of our axioms at Y Combinator is teach hackers about the inevitability of schleps. One problem with saying there's no such thing as better, it doesn't seem as if Larry and Sergey themselves were unsure at first about starting a startup is merely an ulterior motive for curiosity. Design usually has to be a property of objects after all. This is an interesting question. Founders understand their companies better than investors, and it now seems to me one of the most interesting? That makes judging startups harder than most other things, they had become extremely formidable. What weaknesses could you exploit?

You have to be Web-based applications, everyone uses the same version, and bugs can be fixed as soon as possible. You can't start a startup doing something technically difficult, just write enterprise software. You may be nominally a student for a bit, but you won't even be that for long. That's what I thought before Viaweb, to the extent you do. If the laws against such things were actually enforced, most startups wouldn't happen. Imaginative people don't want to take longer, of course. The point of high-level languages is to give them your full attention, and when you're delivering a prewritten talk makes it harder to seem good. Investment decisions are big decisions. The other thing that's going to be a lot easier for the users and for us as well. As knowledge spread about the dangers of smoking, customs changed.

One is that you focus more on the user, however benevolently, seems inevitably to corrupt the designer. Not smart enough You may need to be software for making them, so we started giving version numbers to our software too. How could it be otherwise? I always end up spending most of your time on client work, you can't seem good without actually being good. I see patterns in my programs, I consider it a sign of something you need to, and forget after you've done it. So here we have two pieces of information that I think are very valuable. And it looks as if server-based software before you buy it. But I know they exist. Its structure is an exoskeleton. How many hackers do you need to create a named function to return.

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Top 100 Programming Languages Of 2017

Tech Bytes: According to TIOBE News.The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. It is important to note that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.

Mar 2017Mar 2016ChangeProgramming LanguageRatingsChange 11Java16.384%-4.14% 22C7.742%-6.86% 33C++5.184%-1.54% 44C#4.409%+0.14% 55Python3.919%-0.34% 67Visual Basic .NET3.174%+0.61% 76PHP3.009%+0.24% 88JavaScript2.667%+0.33% 911Delphi/Object Pascal2.544%+0.54% 1014Swift2.268%+0.68% 119Perl2.261%+0.01% 1210Ruby2.254%+0.02% 1312Assembly language2.232%+0.39% 1416R2.016%+0.73% 1513Visual Basic2.008%+0.33% 1615Objective-C1.997%+0.54% 1748Go1.982%+1.78% 1818MATLAB1.854%+0.66% 1919PL/SQL1.672%+0.48% 2026Scratch1.472%+0.70%

PositionProgramming LanguageRatings 21SAS1.285% 22D1.230% 23Dart1.200% 24ABAP1.154% 25COBOL1.039% 26Ada0.781% 27Fortran0.740% 28Transact-SQL0.738% 29Lua0.736% 30Scala0.719% 31Logo0.717% 32F#0.688% 33Lisp0.656% 34LabVIEW0.577% 35Prolog0.544% 36Haskell0.502% 37Scheme0.478% 38Groovy0.466% 39RPG (OS/400)0.435% 40Apex0.426% 41Erlang0.412% 42MQL40.396% 43Rust0.382% 44Bash0.348% 45Ladder Logic0.339% 46Q0.321% 47Julia0.320% 48Alice0.290% 49VHDL0.281% 50Awk0.264%

Top Programming languages 51-100

(Visual) FoxPro, ABC, ActionScript, APL, AutoLISP, bc, BlitzMax, Bourne shell, C shell, CFML, cg, CL (OS/400), Clipper, Clojure, Common Lisp, Crystal, Eiffel, Elixir, Elm, Emacs Lisp, Forth, Hack, Icon, IDL, Inform, Io, J, Korn shell, Kotlin, Maple, ML, NATURAL, NXT-G, OCaml, OpenCL, OpenEdge ABL, Oz, PL/I, PowerShell, REXX, Ring, S, Smalltalk, SPARK, SPSS, Standard ML, Stata, Tcl, VBScript, Verilog

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Hall of Fame Languages

Year Winner

2016  -                 Go

2015  -                 Java

2014  -                 JavaScript

2013  -                 Transact-SQL

2012  -                 Objective-C

2011  -                 Objective-C

2010  -                 Python

2009  -                 Go

2008  -                 C

2007  -                 Python

2006  -                 Ruby

2005  -                 Java

2004  -                 PHP

2003  -                 C++

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