Articles by Nate Swanner

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  Bug Bounty Program Made One Teen a Millionaire Hacker

  One white-hat hacker from Argentina has become the first known bug bounty millionaire. Santiago Lopez (who has the apt Twitter handle @try_to_hack) began hacking in 2015. Inspired by the movie "H…
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  Apple CEO Reminds Us Tech Degrees Aren’t Delivering Necessary Skills

  Apple CEO Tim Apple Tim Cook has a reminder for us: Tech degrees might be a waste of time. At the most recent American Workforce Policy Advisory Board Meeting, Cook noted about half of Apple empl…
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  Amazon Kills Dash Button, Showing IoT Weakness

  The Amazon Dash Button, launched in 2015, was a programmable Internet of Things (IoT) button you could place anywhere in the home to re-order products. And now they’re useless. In a statement, Am…
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  Nintendo Switch Kickstarts VR With New Labo Kit (But Should Devs Care?)

  The Nintendo Switch is a fun console with massive third-party support. Nintendo's newly released virtual reality (VR) Labo kit may get developers even more excited. Labo is Nintendo’s DIY platfor…
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  Swift Has a Huge Gaming Problem, But Study Shows It’s Widely Used

  Swift, the language developed at Apple and released in 2014, is nearing version 5 – and a level of settled-in maturity expected for a language that has the ability to work across platforms. But h…
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  Udacity, Google Launch Free Artificial Intelligence Course for TensorFlow

  Want to build skills in artificial intelligence (A.I.) and deep learning? Udacity and Google are launching a free introductory course on the subject, which naturally leans into TensorFlow, the op…
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  Google Pay Equity Study Has Surprise Beneficiary: Men

  In a new blog post, Google says: “Compensation should be based on what you do, not who you are.” Its annual pay equity study tries to put this belief into corporate practice, and this year (the l…
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  DigitalOcean Launches ‘Marketplace’ for Crowdsourced, Cloud-Based CI/CD

  Cloud hosting platform DigitalOcean is going beyond cloud hosting and Kubernetes. With Marketplace, the company is launching its first service that allows outside vendors to participate in its so…
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  Recruiting Tech Pros Over 50? You'll Pay for Experience.

  For tech pros over 50 (and the recruiters who work with them), 2019 might prove a pivotal year. The average tech salary has continued its plateau, having remained effectively unchanged since 2015…
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  5 Tips for Taking Over a Large, Unruly Codebase

  If you’re a developer or engineer, you likely know that taking over a large codebase is nightmare fuel. Instead of suffering with angst over such a massive task, here are a few tips to help you n…