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I’m a great fan of Paul Graham, essayist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of startup accelerator Y Combinator (along with his wife Jessica Livingston, whom I also admire greatly). Through Y Combinator, Graham has changed the startup and tech company landscape...

Productivity And The Fear Of Modern Programming: JavaScript master Douglas Crockford once said that software is the most complex thing that humans have ever created. It’s made up of intricate bits and bytes pieced together like virtual puzzles. The...

Image: BBC/Guy Levy Transcript of a speech given by Tony Hall, BBC Director-General, at the BBC Radio Theatre in London on Tuesday 8 October 2013 on the corporation’s future. Ladies and Gentlemen, colleagues and friends. Six months ago I came...

A good PHP programmer will understand technical requirements and clarify any uncertainty. A great PHP programmer goes the extra mile to understand the business requirements driving the technical requirements. A good PHP developer structures code clearly...

Before I risk offending anyone with my provocative title, I’ll give away the answer: it’s “no”. However, there’s an interesting discussion to be made of this. Not to pick on Haskell or Erlang or Clojure in particular, Piaw Na made this comment in this...