Development News: Programming, New Languages, and Women's Stories
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-03-30 07:05:31 UTC
- Modified: 2014-03-30 07:05:31 UTC
Programming
Adoption of Google's programming language is rapidly gaining on Java and others.
Hack
The new open-source programming language, Hack, is described by its Facebook developers as operating "seamlessly with PHP," adding that it "reconciles the fast development cycle of PHP with the discipline provided by static typing, while adding many features commonly found in other modern programming languages."
Women
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There are rapidly growing feature set, high commit rates, and code contributions happening across the globe to Apache Hadoop and related Apache Software Foundation projects. However, the number of woman developers, committers, and Project Management Committee (PMC) members in this vast and diversified ecosystem are really diminutive. For the Hadoop project alone, only 5% out of 84 committers are women; and this has been the case for over the past 2 years.
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And when it comes to the open-source software industry, women are even harder to find. A recent study found that 1 out 10 open-source programmers are women (about 10%), and that's up from 2007, when only 2 out of every 100 were women (about 2%).
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During Grace Hopper 2013 on Open Source Day, we worked on more than 10 open source projects and had more than 250 attendees. Experienced women in tech were there to help teach other women how to do programming for their particular project or to work with them in a mentorship capacity. Each year we find that we fill up in terms of the number of attendees we can handle for the event! And then we have a waiting list. So, if this sounds like something you are excited about doing or you are interested in participating in, sign up for Open Source Day sooner rather than later to make sure that you get a spot.
"This weekend, GitHub employee Julie Horvath spoke publicly about negative experiences she had at GitHub that contributed to her resignation," GitHub CEO and co-founder Chris Wanstrath wrote in a blog post on Sunday. "I would like to personally apologize to Julie. It's certain that there were things we could have done differently."
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- seeding doubt about election outcomes
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- "Spam on sr.ht mailing lists"
- "Oppose the Fascist"
- what the founder of GNU/Linux said
- Halloween, All Saints Day & Swiss citizenship
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- Links 05/11/2024: Criminal Referrals Regarding Patent Trolls and Disinformation About the Election Process (Already)
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- And prehistoric googling
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- This is like Windows-ism coming to "Linux" through the hardware
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- Another form of (mostly-unspoken-of) election interference
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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- Links for the day
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- the abuse serves to emphasise or affirm the importance of what we do
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- Links for the day
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- On throwing stones in a glass house
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- The simple activity of voting and counting ballots does not require thousands of complex machines with hundreds of millions of transistors and hundreds of millions of lines of code
- Microsoft and "Retrospective Re-writing of History..."
- in YouTube anyone can make stuff up (as one goes along)
- This Coming Week
- Go exercise your right to vote
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
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- The footage is a bit jittery (taken with a phone apparently, and there's no tripod available), but the sound is OK and the words (in Spanish) are comprehensible
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- Alternative URLs too
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- Obviously!
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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