Questions tagged [technology]
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Why do programmers still use mailing lists?
Why do many open source projects collaborate primarily through mailing lists rather than through, say, forums? I may be ignorant in my assessment, but I, along with my communication teacher, think mailing lists are rather inefficient:
It's hard to…
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Is cloud computing mainly just a marketing term?
I understand the concept of cloud computing, but I'm curious why the term has become so exhausted the past several years. Servers have been around for a long time, and I fail to see how this is any different from before the term "cloud computing"…
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How important is Domain knowledge vs. Technical knowledge?
I am working on a Trading and Risk Management application and although from a C# background, I have been asked to work on SSIS packages. Now I can live with that. The pain point is that there is too much emphasis on business understanding. Trading…
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Has programming for a living ruined your ability to enjoy technology?
To quote Arthur C. Clarke:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Used to be I looked on technology with wonder and amazement. I wanted to take it apart, understand how it worked, figure it all out. Technology was…
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Is software innovation still primarily North American and European? Why, and for how much longer?
Since this site is read by a global audience of programmers, I want to know if people generally agree that the vast majority of software innovation - languages, OS, tools, methodologies, books, etc. - still originates from the USA, Canada, and the…
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Why didn't "cloud computing" offer appear earlier?
Cloud computing is a model of renting resources - servers and data storage. Both servers and data storage have been around for much more than a decade so far. Yet cloud computing offers only appeared several years ago.
What's the deal here? What was…
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What were the historical conditions that led to object oriented programming becoming a major programming paradigm?
What were some of the economic (and other historical) factors that led to object oriented programming languages becoming influential? I know that Simula started things off, but was the adoption of OOP languages due to the ever increasing needs of…
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What are the advantages of a client/server architecture in webapplications as opposed to a server generated frontend application
In our company, we need to build a web interface onto an embedded Linux platform. I kind of see 2 options: You use a technology where the HTML and JavaScript is generated on the server side (Think JSP, Grails, but is is something that is using C++…
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Best way for a technical manager to stay up to date on technology
My manager asked for a list of technical blogs he should follow to stay current on technology. His problem is he keeps hearing terms that he hasn't heard of (i.e. NoSql, sharding, agure, sevice bus, etc.) and he would prefer to at least have a…
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How do you deal with over-the-head APIs/technology
I guess most people have been in this situation.
The initial project planning begins. The requirements are outlined. After architectural review and sorting through APIs/Frameworks the fitting technology is picked. The development starts.
And then it…
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What's the worst technology decision you have ever seen?
This includes architecture decisions, platform choices or any situation where a such a bad choice led to negative consequences.
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Plagued by indecision - how to choose technologies to use for projects?
I have always been fascinated with the newest and best technologies available. I graduate from college this year, and over the course of the past few years, I have spent a lot of time learning new programming languages, web frameworks, Linux…
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Is COM truly dead?
I have previously worked on COM, however I have observed for quite sometime that hardly any company asks for COM exp.
Is COM dead or reports of its demise are highly exaggerated?
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What skills (technologies) get outdated slower?
It's a common knowledge that since the IT industry develops very quickly, most of the skills get outdated fairly rapidly: jQuery, .NET, Ruby on Rails, etc. They change all the time so that it is difficult to keep track of them and especially learn…
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How to choose the most suitable technologies for your project?
While architecting the system, often you have to choose the appropriate technologies to be used for every module. What are the different parameters to be considered while choosing the technologies/frameworks? How those parameters can affect the…
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