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The Real Problem with Software Development

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That statement nicely summarizes what makes software development difficult. It’s not just memorizing the syntactic details of some programming language, or the many functions in some API, but understanding and managing the complexity of the problem you’re trying to solve. We’ve all seen this many times.

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Quantum computing’s potential is still far off, but quantum supremacy shows we’re on the right track

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It does not mean that cryptography is broken, or that we can achieve general artificial intelligence, or anything of the sort. I was introduced to programming in 1972, on computers that were incredibly small by modern standards—but they were still useful. It’s important to consider what this achievement does not mean.

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

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It’s the single most popular programming language on O’Reilly, and it accounts for 10% of all usage. This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. In programming, Python is preeminent. Coincidence?

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The death of Agile?

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Fetishizing pair programming. If you were involved with professional programming in the 80s and 90s, you may remember how radical it was (and, in many shops, still is) to put software developers in touch with users and customers. It’s the single most popular programming language on O’Reilly, and it accounts for 10% of all usage.