Nathan Roach

Nathan Roach

Nathan Roach  //  An attorney and technologist, Mr. Roach maintains an active intellectual property law and litigation practice focused on helping inventors, innovators, and startups avoid trouble, protect their IP, and stay focused on transforming their field of endeavor.

As a former programmer and active entrepreneur, Mr. Roach also seeks to build new solutions to today's problems. Some past tech highlights include:

1999: Employee #19 @ Rackspace.com
2002: Co-Founder of Litigation Dynamics Inc.
2007: Involved with the Supreme Court of Texas Webcasting Project and the St. Mary's Technology Courtroom Project
2008/9: Guest lecturer, St. Mary's University Advanced Trial Advocacy course.

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Dec 14 / 9:30am

RT: The impact of language choice on github projects

This shows the number of swearwords used per 1000 commits. Objective C and Perl programmers are the most foul-mouthed. Java coders are more restrained, possibly because the language is more corporate, and they're afraid of having their pay docked.
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The author of this article sifted through 5000 repositories on GitHub, producing about 55G of data, correlating several factors with choice of language. The analysis covered C, C#, C++, Java, Javascript, Objective-C, Perl, Python, and Ruby, among others. The results were interesting and produced both useful and entertaining correlations.

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