Last week leaked audio surfaced of investors arguing that journalists have too much power. But the Verge’s Silicon Valley editor asks, “What if you take the whole discussion of “tech versus journalism” and reframe it as ‘managers versus employees’? Then, I think, you get closer to the truth of what’s going on.”
After all, this conflict started with employees. They were the…
Tag: Ruby
David Heinemeier Hansson Explains What It Takes to Write Great Code
The “bespoke development” site Evrone.com (an IT outsourcing company) interviewed Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson (who is also co-founder and CTO of Basecamp — and a racecar driver) shortly before he spoke at RubyRussia, Evrone’s annual Moscow programming conference. And they asked him an interesting question. As a man who’s seen lots of Ruby code, “what makes code good…
Meet the Big Tech Critic Behind Hey, Basecamp’s Radical New Email Platform
The Basecamp cofounder and creator of web application framework Ruby on Rails David Heinemeier Hansson has become increasingly outspoken about Big Tech’s privacy violations and monopolistic tendencies. Now he’s inviting you to join the cause — by switching your email provider. From a report: Two years ago, he and fellow Basecamp cofounder and CEO Jason Fried decided to do something about…
Study Finds High Demand for Go and AR/VR Programmers, While Python Remains Favorite Language
The tech jobs marketplace at Hired.com crunched their data on more than 400,000 interview requests and job offers over the last year to produce their annual “State of Software Engineers” report. Among its surprising insights: software engineers with more than 10 years of experience get 20% fewere interview requests than engineers with 4 to 10 years of experience. Other insights:
Demand for…
Free Coding Bootcamp ‘Lambda’ Tries Selling Its Income-Sharing Agreements — In Bundles
An anonymous reader quotes the Verge:
In December, online coding bootcamp Lambda School quietly partnered with Edly, a digital marketplace that helps schools sell income-sharing agreements (ISAs) to accredited investors. The arrangement allows Lambda to receive money from the ISAs upfront, rather than waiting for students to find jobs. But it also flies in the face of the values Lambda typically espouses:…
2019’s Fastest Growing Programming Language Was C, Says TIOBE
Which programming language saw the biggest jump on TIOBE’s index of language popularity over the last year? Unlike last year — it’s not Python. An anonymous reader quotes TIOBE.com: It is good old language C that wins the award this time with an yearly increase of 2.4%… The major drivers behind this trend are the Internet of Things (IoT) and the…
Viral Tweets From Steve Wozniak and Ruby on Rails Creator Spur Investigation Into Apple Credit Card
An anonymous reader quotes the BBC:
A US financial regulator has opened an investigation into claims Apple’s credit card offered different credit limits for men and women. It follows complaints — including from Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak — that algorithms used to set limits might be inherently biased against women. New York’s Department of Financial Services has contacted Goldman Sachs, which runs…
Developer Takes Down Ruby Library After He Finds Out ICE Was Using It
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: A software engineer pulled a personal project down after he found out that one of the companies using it had recently signed a contract with the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The engineer, Seth Vargo, cited the ICE’s “inhumane treatment, denial of basic human rights, and detaining children in cages,” as the…