At some point in your career, you may well be advised to seek out a mentor. However, the benefits being a mentor are often overlooked. The post The unexpected benefits of mentoring others appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/07/the-unexpected-benefits-of-mentoring-others/
From catching Pokemon to purchasing furniture, augmented reality is becoming increasingly common on mobile apps. The post Podcast 354: Building for AR with Niantic Labs’ augmented reality SDK appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
While there are many resources to help programmers write better code—such as books and static analyzers—there are few for writing better comments. While it's easy to measure the quantity of comments in a program, it's hard to measure the quality, and the two are not necessarily correlated. A bad comment is worse than no comment at all. Here are some rules to help you achieve a happy medium. The post Best practices for writing code comments appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
In the seventh lesson of the series we’ll discuss some methods for comparing linear regression models. In the process, we’ll learn about the problem of overfitting and investigate some of the pros and cons of various evaluation methods (such as R-squared, adjusted R-squared, log likelihood, AIC, and BIC). We’ll also continue to practice our Python… The post Level Up: Linear Regression in Python – Part 7 appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
Welcome to ISSUE #80 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: The best approach to low priority bugs, working towards a better metric for responsiveness, and introducing our latest product—CollectivesTM. From the blog Announcing the launch of Collectives on Stack Overflow stackoverflow.blogWe’re thrilled… The post The Overflow #80: Introducing Collectives appeared first on S
We chat about the new options and tools - from a headless CMS to edge data processing - that Shopify is offering developers. The post Podcast 353: Bring your own stack – why developer platforms are going headless appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/07/02/podcast-353-shopify-headless-liquid-api-glen-coates/
To overcome SQL limitations, many companies introduced programming languages for building applications that interface with SQL databases—for example PL/SQL from Oracle. PL/SQL applications can be inefficient. But you can streamline this interface using data type collections, making PL/SQL applications faster and more efficient. The post Using collections to make your SQL access easier and more efficient appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
We chat with Adam Lear, staff software engineer at Stack Overflow, about the evolution of our company's approach to product development over the last decade. The post Episode 352: How product development at Stack Overflow has evolved appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
7N is an international freelance agency that has been connecting the best IT consultants with leading organizations around the world for more than 30 years. Here's the five qualities that make the perfect consultant. The post What makes a great IT consultant – and how you can become one appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/06/28/what-makes-a-great-it-consultant-and-how-you-can-become-one/
In the sixth lesson of the series we’ll discuss some methods for data transformation to improve a linear regression model. In the process, we’ll learn to simulate data with known properties, review some of the assumptions of linear regression, and continue to practice our Python skills. Here are some Stack Overflow questions related to the… The post Level Up: Linear Regression in Python – Part 6 appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
