Wed.Jan 27, 2021

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Capturing Hacker News Mentions with Node.js and MongoDB

The Polyglot Developer

If you’re in the technology space, you’ve probably stumbled upon Hacker News at some point or another. Maybe you’re interested in knowing what’s popular this week for technology or maybe you have something to share. It’s a platform for information. The problem is that you’re going to find too much information on Hacker News without a particularly easy way to filter through it to find the topics that you’re interested in.

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Code on the Road: BMW’s Global Value Stream Management (VSM) Journey

Tasktop

At the recent Forrester Technology & Innovation Global Summit , René Te-Strote—Senior Project Lead of the BMW IT Group—spoke with our CEO and founder, Dr. Mik Kersten, about BMW’s ongoing transformation in the Age of Software. Expanding on the significant role that virtual product development plays in modern automotive manufacturing, René and Mik discussed how value stream management (VSM) has enabled BMW to successfully expand its presence in the Chinese market.

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GotW #99: Postconditions (Difficulty: 7/10)

Sutter's Mill

This special Guru of the Week series focuses on contracts. Postconditions are directly related to assertions (see GotW #97 )… but how, exactly? And since we can already write postconditions using assertions, why would having language support benefit us more for writing postconditions more than for writing (ordinary) assertions? JG Question 1. What is a postcondition, and how is it related to an assertion?

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