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- Machine Learning Is Still Too Hard for Software Engineers https://www.nyckel.com/blog/machine-learning-difficulties/ 105 comments
- The Configuration Complexity Clock: When I was a young coder, a far more experienced chap gave me a stern warning about hard coding values in my software. https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-complexity-clock.html 97 comments programming
- Why Software Development Estimations are hard https://levelup.gitconnected.com/why-software-development-estimations-are-hard-f477ceb42a45?amp%3Bsk=937cdaf73c87c174fddfe2a1bf5a91cb&source=friends_link 52 comments programming
- Computers Are Hard: building software with David Heinemeier Hansson https://medium.com/computers-are-hard/computers-are-hard-building-software-with-david-heinemeier-hansson-c9025cdf225e 9 comments programming
- Working on hard, ambitious graphics software for the dream of FOSS https://www.sourcesort.com/interview/alyssa-rosenzweig-panfrost 5 comments linux
- Software Is Hard (2007) http://gamearchitect.net/articles/softwareishard.html 5 comments programming
- Things I Learnt The Hard Way (in 30 Years of Software Development) https://blog.juliobiason.net/thoughts/things-i-learnt-the-hard-way/ 36 comments coding
- Things I Learnt The Hard Way (in 30 Years of Software Development) https://blog.juliobiason.net/thoughts/things-i-learnt-the-hard-way/ 98 comments programming
- Things I Learnt The Hard Way (in 30 Years of Software Development) https://blog.juliobiason.net/thoughts/things-i-learnt-the-hard-way/ 82 comments programming
- You know how sometimes you come across software that is just so absolute garbage you can hardly believe it? https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/am2xjm/you_know_how_sometimes_you_come_across_software/ 39 comments sysadmin
- Are All Software Architecture Courses Hard To Understand By Nature? https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/9v05vm/are_all_software_architecture_courses_hard_to/ 11 comments cscareerquestions
- From Secretary to Software Developer: The Hard Way https://medium.com/code-like-a-girl/from-secretary-to-software-developer-the-hard-way-ddfc60c8b675#.xnhuvooy6 50 comments programming
- Writing software is hard https://m.signalvnoise.com/writing-software-is-hard-388d5e982ad9 121 comments programming
- Upgrading to SSD hard driver. What software is best to clone harddrive? https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/5ival7/upgrading_to_ssd_hard_driver_what_software_is/ 5 comments techsupport
- How hard is it to change transition in the industry as a software engineer? https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/514g7t/how_hard_is_it_to_change_transition_in_the/ 3 comments cscareerquestions
- Software estimates are impossibly hard http://chrismm.com/blog/software-estimations-are-impossible/ 4 comments coding
- Why software estimates are impossibly hard http://chrismm.com/blog/software-estimations-are-impossible/ 8 comments compsci
- Bad Software, Worse Solutions: Programming Will Always Be Hard http://thecodist.com/article/bad_software_worse_solutions_programming_will_always_be_hard 98 comments programming
- Software Is Hard http://www.gamearchitect.net/articles/softwareishard.html 61 comments programming
- Error codes or Exceptions? Why is Reliable Software so Hard? http://damienkatz.net/2006/04/error_code_vs_e.html 10 comments programming
- College Students Are Learning Hard Lessons About Anti-Cheating Software https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/education/college-students-are-learning-hard-lessons-about-anti-cheating-software/ 7 comments technology
- How hard is it to move from QA/Quality Engineering to Software Engineering? https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/9urtct/how_hard_is_it_to_move_from_qaquality_engineering/ 10 comments cscareerquestions
- Corrupted Software after hard drive failure. Please help. https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/5lu6mu/corrupted_software_after_hard_drive_failure/ 4 comments techsupport
- Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard (and why math alone won't help us) http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2016/07/23/correctness-and-complexity/ 13 comments compsci
- Why do web sites and software take so long to build? And why is it so hard? http://www.scottporad.com/2012/05/06/why-do-web-sites-and-software-take-so-long-to-build-and-why-is-it-so-hard/ 241 comments programming
- Found a cool piece of free software that maps out what's taking up space on your hard drive http://windirstat.info/ 15 comments software
- Its high time we take a hard look at our software practices https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/hisge8/its_high_time_we_take_a_hard_look_at_our_software/ 9 comments india
- Experienced Software Engineer Having a Hard Time Landing a New Job https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/7vi96j/experienced_software_engineer_having_a_hard_time/ 95 comments cscareerquestions
- What nobody tells you about documentation - However hard you work on documentation, it won't work for your software - unless you do it the right way https://www.divio.com/en/blog/documentation/ 36 comments programming
- Software Talent Isn't That Hard To Find, But your interviewing technique might keep you from finding it. http://exitevent.com/software-talent-isnt-that-hard-to-find-14825.asp 193 comments programming
- I was asked this hard interview question yesterday. Software interviews are becoming pretty ridiculous. http://mindcipher.com/puzzles/28 397 comments programming
- Break TrueCrypt hard drive encryption quickly - The latest version of Passware Kit Forensic has become the first commercially available software to break TrueCrypt hard drive encryption without applying a time-consuming brute-force attack. It was also the first product to decrypt BitLocker drives. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=9077 20 comments programming
- Software can be hard - I recently survived a massive lay-off at work. http://kernelsyscall.blogspot.com/2009/11/software-can-be-hard.html 10 comments programming
- Load balancing LDAP queries for hard coded software that points to a single server? https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/6pojxh/load_balancing_ldap_queries_for_hard_coded/ 10 comments sysadmin
- How they built the Apollo 11 software : This article about the development of the software for Apollo 11 gives a good sense of just how far we've come in 40 years. The Apollo command module software ran on 1 MHz processor with 2K of memory, and most of the software was hard-coded into memory. http://www.linux.com/news/software/developer/29068-apollo-11-story 6 comments science
- Completely bricked my hardware. When trying to boot install media: Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. File: \windows\system32\boot\winload.exe Status: 0xc0000098 - Reset CMOS didn't fix it, changing hard drives didn't work... help please? https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/bzllzm/completely_bricked_my_hardware_when_trying_to/ 7 comments techsupport
- One guy (Eben Moglen) is trying to become an existential threat to the world of Free Software. He has already taken legal action against Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) that promotes Software Freedom and trying hard to pull their projects, what has RMS got to say about this? https://www.itwire.com/open-source/80819-sflc-s-moglen-acted-against-interests-of-fsf-claim.html 76 comments linux
- You might think that software 50 years old, for a rocket that no longer flies, in a language hardly anyone ever uses, would be nothing more than a museum piece. But it turns out that it’s offering us some valuable lessons. https://www.laserfiche.com/simplicity/3-things-learn-from-apollo-lunar-module-code 15 comments programming
- NSA hid spying software in hard drive firmware, report says -- Government, military in Iran, Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan targeted http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/nsa-hid-spying-software-in-hard-drive-firmware-report-says-1.2959252 6 comments worldnews
- Curious what the math folks think about this (x-post from /r/programming, they weren't pleased) "I was asked this hard interview question yesterday. Software interviews are becoming pretty ridiculous." http://mindcipher.com/puzzles/28 194 comments math