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Gamoid writes:
The venerable C programming language hit a 15-year low on the TIOBE Index, perhaps because more mobile- and web-friendly languages like Swift and Go are starting to eat its lunch.
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Gamoid writes:
Windows 3.1 was so complicated that even a Boeing propulsion scientist couldn't figure out how to open a word processor. A behavioral scientist, who once worked with BF Skinner at Harvard, was brought in to Microsoft to figure out what was going wrong — and he came to the Start button, for which he holds the patent today. It's a weird and cool look at how simple ideas aren't obvious.
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Gamoid writes:
I looked into the state of Google Go and Apple Swift, looking at what the two languages have in common — and why tech companies would bother involving themselves in the programming language holy wars.
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Gamoid writes:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has identified online harassment as a major challenge facing free speech on the Internet, and lays out its plan to fix it.
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Gamoid writes:
I got to talk to a nonprofit that built a cloud based on Salesforce with a UX that lets anyone with any level of sightedness — from visually impaired to fully blind — get to work in any part of the business. It's kind of a cool story about the importance of accessibility in tech, check it out.
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At VMworld today, VMware introduced the Workplace Suite, a platform for securely delivering applications and content across desktops and mobile devices from the cloud. The really cool part, though, is a partnership with Google and NVIDIA to deliver even graphics-intensive Windows applications on a Chromebook. I was on the scene.
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Gamoid writes:
This past school year, the Coachella Valley Unified School District gave out 20,000 iPads to every single student. The good news is that kids love them, and only 6 of them got stolen or went missing. The bad news is, these iPads are sucking so much bandwidth that it's keeping neighboring school districts from getting online. Here's why the CVUSD is considering becoming its own ISP.
