This long-running argument was joined once again earlier this month during livestreamed testimony in front of the Copyright Office, which is considering new DMCA rules as part of its regular triennial process. During that testimony, representatives for the Software Preservation Network and the Libra...

The Open-Closed Principle, described in SOLID, ensures project flexibility, but does it always lead to optimal, future-ready code? It sounds promising - open for extension, closed for modification. Let’s take a closer look. The Open-Closed Principle seems like a reasonable approach. By designing o...

REDMOND, Wash. — April 25, 2024 —  Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year: “Microsoft Copilot and Copilot stack are orchestrating a new era of AI transformation, driving bette...

A federal judge has acquitted Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey of dozens of counts, including a majority of those on which federal prosecutors planned to retry Lacey later this year. U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa also acquitted former Backpage executives Jed Brunst and Scott Spear on multiple ...

It’s with a full but heavy heart that I share with you all today my decision to step down as Atlassian’s co-CEO. At this important juncture in my personal and professional life, I hope you will let me indulge in some nostalgia and pride . It’s been 23 years since Mike and I started Atlassian, ...

The Maildir e-mail format is a common way of storing email messages on a file system, rather than in a database. Each message is assigned a file with a unique name, and each mail folder is a file system directory containing these files. Maildir was designed by Daniel J. Bernstein circa 1995, with a ...

State legislators in Tennessee passed a bill Tuesday allowing teachers and school staff in the state to be armed. The bill, according to the summary, authorizes a faculty or staff member of a school to carry a concealed handgun on school grounds subject to certain con...

Jeff Lawson, the cofounder of cloud computing company Twilio, appears to have purchased the satirical news website The Onion from G/O Media. A trust linked to Lawson is behind a San Francisco-based company called Global Tetrahedron, which shares the name of a fictional evil megacorporation in a long...

<aside> 💡 Hola friends! We recently created a Discord for Software Automation and this was one of our Watercooler discussions we had which was then continued on Reddit The definitions of Unit, Integration, and End-to-End (E2E) tests vary across different perspectives within the programming,...

Here’s a simple probability problem with an answer you may find surprising. (The statement of the problem and solution are simple. The proof is not as simple.) Suppose you draw 1,000 serial numbers at random from a set of 1,000,000. Then you make another random sample of 1,000. How likely is i...