Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Microsoft ARM Ambitions May Repeat Old Mistakes
Way back in Ye Olden Days of 2012, Microsoft tried something unusual: It released a Surface tablet (dubbed the “Surface RT”) with the same ARM architecture that powers mobile devices. This was a… -
H-1B Software Engineer Pay at Google, Apple, Microsoft
It’s no secret that some of the largest tech companies use the H-1B visa to fill software-engineering roles. But how much are they actually paying those software engineers? Let’s take a look at s… -
Gig Economy Software Engineer Salaries: What Uber, Lyft, DoorDash Pay
The gig economy has made billionaires out of a few lucky entrepreneurs, and millionaires out of thousands of software engineers and other technologists who decided to sign onto the right startup… -
Lumberyard: What Happened to Amazon's Gaming Dreams?
In the beginning (that is, early 2016), Amazon Lumberyard offered a lot of promise to game developers at all skill levels: By combining a lot of cross-platform game-development tooling with the s… -
Python Beginner? Check Out These Programming Videos.
Interested in learning Python? Microsoft’s new video series adds to an already-massive amount of online tutorials and documentation about the programming language. ‘Python for Beginners” features… -
McDonald's Using Google, Alexa A.I. for Recruiting
McDonald’s has a pair of new recruiters: Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant. Yes, the fast-food chain is now accepting job applications via digital assistant. It starts off when you turn to your… -
Tech Jobs Aren’t the Highest-Paying Jobs in America
Every week, it seems we’re inundated with new stories about tech startup employees making it absurdly rich in the wake of another skyrocketing IPO (although to be fair, those days of ultra-rich “… -
Google Employee Document Details Harassment, Intimidation
A handful of Google employees have written a document detailing sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation within the search-engine giant. While the existence of this document was previous… -
H-1B Salaries at JPMorgan Show What Banking Tech Pays for Visa Hires
For years, companies attempted to obfuscate how many H-1B visa workers joined their ranks—and how much those workers earned. After all, H-1B is a politically and morally fraught issue, as compani… -
Quiz: Do You Think Augmented Reality Will Succeed?
Augmented reality (AR) is one of those areas that most technologists don’t pay much attention to. After all, aside from the breakout success of “Pokemon Go,”no AR game or app seems to have seized…