Articles by Dice Staff
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This Hysterical Video About BuzzFeed Is Right On Target
A hundred and thirty million visitors, 110 million YouTube views, a funnel from Facebook -- BuzzFeed generates traffic the way Goldman Sachs generates money. Of course, this isn't the first time… -
Washington: Surprising Reasons Behind Promising Job Market
What's New This Quarter A long and miserable winter in D.C. coupled with the usual governmental tumult has left federal workers in terrible moods. According to a poll conducted by researcher Mark… -
How One App Hit 30 Countries in 3 Months
How's this for performance? New York's driving analytics app-developer Dash got thousands of U.S. users and has been downloaded in more than 30 countries — all within three months of its launch.… -
How the Push of Activist Investors Pressures Tech Jobs
Recent layoffs at Juniper Networks -- the company is cutting 6 percent of its workforce -- is symptomatic of a growing battle between Wall Street financiers and Silicon Valley tech companies. As… -
Internet of Things Could Prove a Boon for Security Experts
Last week, Nest pulled its ultra-sleek Nest Protect smoke detector from the market after stumbling upon a potentially dangerous glitch in its software. “During recent laboratory testing of the Ne… -
Using Netcat to Read, Write Data Across Your Network
Testing a network connection or troubleshooting a data flow is a common job for the system admin or developer. One tool they can take advantage of: the Netcat command line program, which provides… -
A Hilarious Video of a Business Meeting’s Lone Engineer
Painful. Sometimes that's the only word that can describe what it's like to be the sole engineer in a meeting full of product and marketing types. If you don't think what happens to this guy can… -
Employers Can’t Find Enough Scala Talent
Some have wondered whether the recent release of Java 8 could be bad news for Scala, which gained fans with its functional programming capabilities on the Java Virtual Machine. Scala’s creator Ma… -
IT Service Broker: A New Role for the Hybrid Cloud
The widening adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise is spurring the growth of a relatively new role in corporate IT: The service broker. In part, the need for these professionals is being… -
How This Developer Landed at Yahoo
Carl Baltrunas is a senior iOS architect and developer who recently landed a job at Yahoo. After starting as a junior programmer, he’s worked as a systems programmer, systems manager and systems…