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Slashdot's 10 Most-Visited Stories of 2017 (slashdot.org)
Slashdot's most-visited story of 2017 was Google Has Demonstrated a Successful Practical Attack Against SHA-1, which was visited more than 212,000 times since it was published in Feburary.
And our second- and third-most popular stories also came in February -- both just one week before.
FCC Chairman Wants It To Be Easier To Listen To Free FM Radio On Your Smartphone and IT Decisions Makers and Executives Don't Agree On Cyber Security Responsibility.
Keep reading for a complete list of Slashdot's 10 most-visited stories of 2017.
Here's a quick reminder for 2018. You can always find a list of Slashdot's ten most-visited stories for the preceding year in the Slashdot "Hall of Fame." It will also tell you which stories got the most comments during the preceding year, and also reveals the most active submitters and most active poll topics.
Here's our most-visited stories for 2017.
And our second- and third-most popular stories also came in February -- both just one week before.
FCC Chairman Wants It To Be Easier To Listen To Free FM Radio On Your Smartphone and IT Decisions Makers and Executives Don't Agree On Cyber Security Responsibility.
Keep reading for a complete list of Slashdot's 10 most-visited stories of 2017.
Here's a quick reminder for 2018. You can always find a list of Slashdot's ten most-visited stories for the preceding year in the Slashdot "Hall of Fame." It will also tell you which stories got the most comments during the preceding year, and also reveals the most active submitters and most active poll topics.
Here's our most-visited stories for 2017.
"Most visited" means shit. A crap older story might be visited more than a very interesting story from last month.
Focus on "most commented" instead, because comments are disabled after a while.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
The comment section tells the REAL story.
The three most visited stories were obviously something about foreigners taking jobs, which riles up Slashdotters like nothing else.
Of course, Slashdot doesn't want to promote that.
2016: Wow! That was kind of crazy, huh?
2017: Hold my beer!
2018: I see you have a line forming already, so where do you want me to offload the kegs?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Different metrics measure things, and both are worth considering: most commented, and most visited.
Some other possible metrics of potential interest: most unique commenters, most heavily moderated, most linked to, ....
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
suck my DAMN balls
Instead of "Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n Roll", here we have "Politics and Apple and Sexual Abuse".
C++ is the usual answer. Maybe Go if you want to be hip.
Most visited stories of 2018:
1) trump's hair turns blue
2) Facebook bought by Yahoo
3) Comcast abducted by aliens
4) Putin loses election, retires to go into "the vodka business"
I'm surprised my submission on Donald Trump winning isn't higher on the list, honestly, given that it has the unfair advantage of somehow being a related story for damned near every story on here for the past year. Some of the stories it sorta makes sense, but I know there were more than a few stories where I wondered how it could possibly be related.
So,, /. has built recently. /. has gone to the crapper, /. why, it has shiny apple crap interwoven all in it..
considering the level of reputation
seriously, I think this whole thig is bullshit, I completely agree,, the metric is completely stupid..
but, i know its authentic
Stuupid!!!!
COBOL is the up and coming cross platform language.
creimer's fall from being Slashdot's third most popular poster to being lower than used cat litter.
Javascript. "It's pretty fast" is its tagline (or should be anyway) since Google brought us V8.
FORTRAN 66
It might get pulled b/c Campbell's is suing Google over the name 'V8'.
10? I swear I can see 20.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Suggestion: Copy and send the links below to other people. Don't include anything about me, of course.
In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)
In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)
President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)
Trump has now spent more than a 3rd of his presidency at his properties... (Dec. 26, 2017, Business Insider) "I'm gonna be working for you; I'm not going to have time to go play golf. Believe me." -- Donald Trump, Aug. 8, 2016. YouTube video of Trump saying that.
Trump Promised to Protect Steel. Layoffs Are Coming Instead. (Dec. 22, 2017, New York Times)
10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)
How Trump and the Nazis Stole Christmas To Promote White Nationalism (Dec. 24, 2017, Newsweek)
How Trump Is Ending the American Era (Oct. 2017 Issue, The Atlantic magazine) Quote:
"For all the visible damage the president has done to the nation's global standing, things are much worse below the surface." Another quote: "Foreign leaders have begun to reshape alliances, bypassing and diminishing the United States."
Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."
Bizarro Cartoon: Santa Claus has limits. (Dec. 22, 2017, Bizarro)
Nothing about Bitcoin, Arduino, Raspberry Pi or 3D printers?
#DeleteFacebook
C++ if you're gonna do the whole thing snout to butthole. Difficult but can be done if you nolife.
Unity and C# if you want to more easily develop for multiple platforms. Likely to perform a little slower unless you implement a custom update function with a professionally licensed version of Unity.
>. I'll also need it to run pretty fast due to my desired complexity for the game. Therefore, a scripting language like Python probably isn't the best choice
The language has little impact on the speed. When using "a scripting language like Python", the few operations that take up most of the time should generally be done in the interpreter / library anyway. For example, sorting is a slow operation - a shell script can sort just about as fast as any language, because the actual sort is done by the "sort" program.
Profile your program to find out the two or three functions that need to run faster. Refactor them to be just a few lines, then profile to see which *lines* of code are slow. If those lines are being called thousands or millions of times, fix the algorithm. Then figure out how to leverage a thorough understanding of the language to make the few problem bits much faster. That may well involve figuring out how to have that bit done by the interpreter / library, which is written in a fast language like C. As an example, though "write quicksort" is a common interview question, you should almost never write sorting code. Every high-level language already *has* a fast sort already provided. Use it.
It's also not uncommon that the slow operations can be entirely removed by using a faster algorithm or pattern.
Several things can make a big impact on execution speed. Language choice isn't near the top of that list.
No longer is what is used to be