Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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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… -
Google Rolls Out New Kotlin App-Building Lessons
Google really wants developers to learn how to build Android apps in Kotlin. In order to make that happen, the search-engine giant is pushing two new, tutorial-based courses via codelabs: Kotlin… -
Apple Will Manufacture the Mac Pro in Austin
Apple plans to manufacture its new Mac Pro at a factory in Austin, Texas. That represents a shift from the summer, when news reports suggested that the company would manufacture the computers in… -
Is Your Agile Team Accidentally Practicing ‘AgileFall’?
By this point, most software-development teams have embraced some variation of Agile methodology. Waterfall methodology, which had its heyday when the majority of software came in a physical box,…