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Copying code from Stack Overflow? You might paste security vulnerabilities, too

by Ryan Donovan on November 26, 2019

Copying code itself isn’t always a bad thing. Code reuse can promote efficiency in software development; why solve a problem that has already been solved well? But when the developers...

The Interactive News Platform for Everyone

by Ryan Donovan on November 18, 2019

Journalists have an uneasy relationship with technology. On one hand, journalism at the highest levels still focuses on print distribution, a technology hundreds of years old. On the other hand,...

The Overflow #4: CSS and Lace

by Ryan Donovan on November 15, 2019

Welcome to ISSUE #4 of The Overflow, a newsletter by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams of React Training. You can read...

Looking to understand which API is best for a certain task? A new study uses Stack Overflow data to rank them

by Ryan Donovan on November 7, 2019

But if you could collect and analyze the opinions posted within the comments and questions, you could start to get a bead on the aggregate sentiment, sort of a Yelp...

The Overflow Newsletter #3 – The 36 pieces of code that changed history

by Ryan Donovan on November 1, 2019

We chat about programming with ADHD, our most embarrassing programming mistakes, and spacecraft navigation.

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Copying code from Stack Overflow? You might paste security vulnerabilities, too

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