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TDD is an anti-pattern 
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Competitive coding, where programmers race to be the first to come up with the solution to complicated code challenges, has exploded in popularity as a place for Silicon Valley firms like Facebook and Google to find top talent. This blurb writer thinks they need a yellow card for silliness
Or 10 yard penalty, depending on which side of which ocean you live on.
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I would not hire any of the participants.
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Commentator: And Smith has selected a for loop...
Color guy: Interesting choice, that, I was sure he'd go for a while loop here...
Commentator: Oh no! Smith has tried to use a single-character variable name! There's a flag on the play!
Color guy: I see this time and time again with Smith. He needs to understand that a short-term gain will usually lead to a long-term loss.
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Commentator: Meanwhile Johnson is compiling, will his code work on the first try?
Color guy: If it does Smith is done for!
Sounds exciting indeed...
Well, I guess this could actually work! 
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Commentator: Johnson presses Run...
Color guy: There's a buzz from the crowd.
Commentator: And now a fizz. Another two buzzes...
Color guy: Can Johnson go all the way?
Commentator: A fizz!
Color guy: Johnson has done it!
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Welcome to the 5 'o clock news.
A series of riots broke out yesterday in Silicon Valley after Johnson beat Smith in a programming competition.
Outraged fans of Smith went out on the streets and left a trail of destruction.
Cars were burned and windows were smashed, the damage is said to be in the millions.
Five people have been arrested of which two were released this morning.
This has been the third incident related to programming competitions.
Organizations such as IETF, W3C and IEEE and companies such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft are working together with the police to prevent such incidents in the future.
Today protesters have been handing out pamphlets saying "F5 - crash software, not streets".
These protesters say the police isn't doing enough to solve these 'real life bugs' and they've had it with these coding hooligans.
We tried to reach a police spokesperson, but no one was available for further comments.
In other news...
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Maybe they could get it televised on The Ocho.
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Oh, and...
Eggheads
In a world where intelligence takes precedence over athletics, Quinn replaces his double who is in hiding and competes as the captain of team in a sport named "Mindgame" which implements rugby-style activity with answering high caliber questions. Quinn discovers that his double was targeted by thugs who want him to throw the game to satisfy his gambling debts.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0702728/?ref_=ttep_ep6[^]
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Researchers at Google DeepMind ratchet up the performance of its self-learning AI to let it best humans in an even wider range of games. But it still has trouble with Ms Pacman. I was never very good at Asteroid either
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Asteroids
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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You play the video games you want, I'll play the ones I want 
TTFN - Kent
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Its PK, he was probably so bad he never realised there was more than one asteroid
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Yup, that's about how well I played that game. 
TTFN - Kent
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Judging by its score on Asteroids I would kicked its virtual butt, well at least back in the day.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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In an attempt to demonstrate how easy it would be for attackers to perform a high-voltage attack against a company's computer infrastructure and take it down by damaging it, security researcher Grigorios Fragkos found a device that can easily be used to "fry" other appliances on the network: computers, switches, attached storage devices, etc. A cautionary tale for those who can't tell power cords from ethernet cables
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When I was a kid, I took the 12V output of the transformer from my racing car set and connected it to the pins of a 555 IC timer. The top blew off the chip!
A few years ago, a lightning strike hit the ground between two school buildings, right where the conduit was buried (like it knew, for pete's sake) where the cable was that connected the two buildings. Blew out two expensive switches. The irony there is that I replaced these $600 switches with $40 switches from Staples. The guy who spec'd their equipment was selling them equipment that was far in excess of what they needed. God only knows what his markup was.
Marc
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Meh, the BoFH has been using that technique to troll vendors and get upgrades from his bosschewtoy of the month for years.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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With the exception of apps intended to piggyback on the success of a movie blockbuster or some other similar short-term score, most software developers care little about fads. Trends, on the other hand, are extremely important to software professionals. "There's a brand new talk, but it's not very clear"
Security is a trend?
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"There's a new sound. From deep down underground."
modified 24-Sep-15 0:05am.
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I would tend to agree with that list with the exception of the last one - Security. I don't see this as a "trend". It's a fundamental part of every software application, and always has been. I agree that there is a heightened awareness of it with the increasing popularity of the internet and the cloud, but it's always been around and always will be.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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So, if you had a crystal ball, what would be the next trends? Personal robots? AI? Virtual gear?
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: what would be the next trends?
Same ol' same ol'.
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The substance of my comment was that I don't see "security" as a trend. It's just something that software needs to do, and has done so since the beginning.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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