7,000 Developers Report Their Top Languages: Java, JavaScript, and Python

“JetBrains released its State of Developer Ecosystem 2019 report, which found while Java is still the most popular primary language and JavaScript is the most used overall, Python is gaining speed,” reports SD Times: The report surveyed about 7,000 developers worldwide, and revealed Python is the most studied programming language, the most loved language, and the third top primary programming language…

Do Google and Facebook Threaten Our ‘Ambient Privacy’?

This week Pinboard founder Maciej Ceglowski (also a web developer and social critic) asked readers of his blog to consider an emerging threat to ambient privacy. He defines it as “the understanding that there is value in having our everyday interactions with one another remain outside the reach of monitoring, and that the small details of our daily lives should pass…

Deepening Her Knowledge Of The Quality Field: Meet Efi

What program did you take on edX, and what were your goals in taking it? Since my graduation from the Engineering University, I have worked on 4 different positions at different factories that applied some Lean Six Sigma tools to improve their quality and productivity. As I kept “falling” on them from job to job, it didn’t take me long to…

‘Robots’ Are Not ‘Coming For Your Job’ — Management Is

merbs writes: If the robots are simply “coming,” if they just show up and relieve a helpless lot of humans of their livelihoods, then no one is to blame for this techno-elemental phenomenon, and little is to be done about it beyond bracing for impact. Not the executives swayed by consulting firms who insist the future is in AI customer service…