Month: March 2016
Dropouts Need Not Apply: Silicon Valley Asks Mostly for Developers With Degrees – Real Time Economics – WSJ
It turns out that tech companies are more likely than other employers to require college degrees when hiring software developers.
The Future of Academic Style: Why Citations Still Matter in the…
STYLE IS A STICKY SUBJECT, perhaps especially when it comes to writing. The term is commonly used to gesture toward that bit of composition that both exceeds and augments meaning: that flourish, however ornate or austere, that makes a sentence something more than just declarative. Style in writing is celebrated for transcending the expected, even where that style is described as “plain”; style is the thing that makes an interesting-enough idea resonate long after we’ve read it. Style plays an outsized role in what attracts us to one writer but not another. Style is what makes our common language our own, that sets our writing apart from the average.
STYLE IS A STICKY SUBJECT, perhaps especially when it comes to writing. The term is commonly used to gesture toward that bit of composition that both exceeds and augments meaning: that flourish, however ornate or austere, that makes a sentence something more than just declarative. Style in…
The Future of Academic Style: Why Citations Still Matter in the…
Linux at 25: Q&A With Linus Torvalds
The creator of the open-source operating system talks about its past, present, and future
Linux at 25: Q&A With Linus Torvalds
DATA & ANALYTICS – From stream to recommendation using Apache Beam with Google Cloud Dataflow
SOLUTIONS SHOWCASE – Google Genomics: Analysis of life science datasets at scale
Tell Congress: It’s Time to Move FASTR
Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available
Publicly Funded Research Should Be Publicly Available
Tell Congress: It’s Time to Move FASTR
How to reduce the cognitive load of your code
Low bug count, good performance, easy modification. Clean code is high-impact, and is perhaps the main reason behind the existence of the proverbial 10x developer. And yet, despite it’s impor…
How to reduce the cognitive load of your code
Git 2.8 has been released
The open source Git project has just released Git 2.8.0, featuring a variety of features, bugfixes, and other improvements from over 70 contributors. Here are some of the most useful new features:
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Git 2.8 has been released
Jessica Livingston: Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing
JESSICA LIVINGSTON: The most important thing an early-stage startup should know about marketing is rather counterintuitive: that you probably shouldn’t be doing anything you’d use the term “marketing” to describe. Sales and marketing are two ends of a continuum. At the sales end your outreach is narrow and deep. At the marketing end it is broad and shallow. And for an early stage startup, narrow and deep is what you want — not just in the way yo…
Jessica Livingston: Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing