Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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UX and UI Designers: Skills You Need for a Good Career
When UX (user experience design) and UI (user interface design) are done right, they feel totally natural to the user. For years, Apple was considered a champion of UI and UX, although the averag… -
Python is Key to the Future of Data Science
If you read through the latest edition of GitHub’s State of the Octoverse—a comprehensive report on the code respository’s biggest trends—you might pick up on something interesting. Although it’s… -
Netflix Senior Software Engineer Salaries: Primed for the 'Streaming Wars'
As the so-called “streaming wars” pick up steam, Netflix finds itself in something of an odd place. On one hand, the company is in a dominant position, with millions of customers and a robust pip… -
Automation Apocalypse and the Tech Jobs That Avoid It
When it comes to automation taking away jobs, a new report by Bank of America Merrill Lynch is predicting what amounts to near-total apocalypse: 800 million human jobs deleted by 2035. “Increasin… -
Mathematicians, Data Engineers Dominate November's Hottest Jobs
Employers’ hunger for mathematicians and data engineers seems insatiable, according to our November breakdown of data from Burning Glass’s NOVA platform, which analyzes millions of active job pos… -
H-1B Spouses Face Uncertainty with New H-4 EAD Decision
The fate of H-4 EAD, which allows the spouses of H-1B visa holders to work, is still up in the air after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit kicked a decision over the… -
Palantir Software Engineers: How Much They Make
In the wake of various tech “unicorns” (i.e., startups valued at over a billion dollars) crashing and burning on the public markets (hi, Uber!), ultra-secretive data firm Palantir is reportedly p… -
Apple Headset Rumors May Delay AR Going Mainstream
A new report suggests that Apple’s much-rumored augmented reality (AR) glasses could debut far later than some folks expected—by 2022, as opposed to next year. That could radically change the lon… -
7 Technology Jobs That Offer Solid Salaries, Growth
Let’s face it: Although we’d all like C-suite pay, precious few people actually land jobs as CEO, CTO, or CIO. However, there are several tech jobs that pay a significant salary—whether or not yo… -
10 Fastest-Growing Programming Languages on GitHub
Which programming languages are on the rise? That’s always a difficult question to answer, but GitHub’s annual State of the Octoverse report gives us some valuable insights. Dart, Rust, and Kotli…