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newsletter March 5, 2021

The Overflow #63: What I wish I had known about single page applications

Welcome to ISSUE #63 of the Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams at Netlify. This week, Part 2 of our Level Up series digs into Python libraries, a passionate article argues Java is great for low latency systems, and the podcast team discusses the security…

Medi Madelen Gwosdz and Cassidy Williams

code-for-a-living March 3, 2021

Best practices can slow your application down

In order to get the most performant site possible when building the codebase for our public Stack Overflow site, we didn’t always follow best practices.

Roberta Arcoverde and Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living March 2, 2021

Level Up: Mastering statistics with Python – part 4

While many introductory statistics classes teach the CLT, very few actually attempt to prove it because that requires some complex math. In this session, we'll bypass all that math by using Python loops to simulate the CLT.

Ben Popper and Sophie Sommer

code-for-a-living March 1, 2021

Level Up: Mastering statistics with Python – part 3

Comparing summary statistics like the mean and median can help us understand how these variables are related, but we can learn even more by using visualizations.

Ben Popper and Sophie Sommer

The Stack Overflow Podcast is a weekly conversation about working in software development, learning to code, and the art and culture of computer programming.

March 5, 2021

Podcast 318: What’s the half-life of your code?

Think of your code quality as if it will run forever, but adapt to change as if your code will be obsolete tomorrow.

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March 2, 2021

Podcast 317: Chatting with Google’s DeepMind about the future of AI

Teaching AI to master games without knowing the rules may help to lay the foundation for more general intelligence in real world environments.

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February 26, 2021

Podcast 316: When it comes to package managers, don’t forget security

Enjoy the goodwill of others, heck use their code when it helps. Just don't trust what you can't verify for yourself.

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February 23, 2021

Podcast 315: How to use interference to your advantage – a quantum computing catch up

The power of quantum computing has implications for security, cryptocurrency, and drug discovery.

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code-for-a-living March 1, 2021

Sacrificial architecture: Learning from abandoned systems

One of the tough decisions you and your team may face as you scale is deciding between keeping your current codebase and rebuilding on a new architecture.

Mohamad Aladdin

promotion February 25, 2021

Stack Overflow sponsors Techtonica participants for 2021 cohort

We're partnering with Tectonica to sponsor students eager to learn software engineering.

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code-for-a-living February 24, 2021

What I wish I had known about single page applications

Single page apps are all the rage today, but they don't always operate the same as traditional web pages.

Michael Pratt

code-for-a-living February 23, 2021

Level Up: Mastering statistics with Python – part 2

Investigate a dataset with summary statistics and some basic data visualizations using the Python libraries NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, and Seaborn.

Ben Popper and Sophie Sommer

code-for-a-living February 22, 2021

Choosing Java instead of C++ for low-latency systems

When it comes to developing low latency software systems, the received wisdom is that you would be crazy to use anything but C++ because anything else has too high a latency. But I’m here to convince you of the opposite, counter-intuitive, almost heretical notion: that when it comes to achieving low latency in software systems, Java is better.

Theodoros ‘Theo’ Karasavvas

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