Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Web Developers Earn the Most in These States, Cities
Where can web developers make the most money? As you probably suspect, major tech hubs such as San Francisco, Seattle, and San Jose pay out the biggest salaries to those tech professionals who bu… -
Developers Can't Escape Their Job... Even in Dreams
Even when they’re asleep, developers can’t seem to put their jobs aside. According to a new developer survey from JetBrains, some 52 percent of developers report coding “sometimes” in their dream… -
Facebook Starting Salaries: What Tech Professionals Can Expect
Facebook confronts a new crisis seemingly every other month. From the Cambridge Analytica scandal to the pushback over its attempt to launch a new global currency, these calamities haven’t dampen… -
Apple's Drive.ai Acquisition Means It's Still in Self-Driving Game
Apple has acquired autonomous driving startup Drive.ai, suggesting that its aspirations to build some kind of self-driving platform are still very much alive. According to Axios, which picked apa… -
Seattle Apple Expansion, Oracle Layoffs Churn Tech Scene
Apple is growing its presence in Seattle, with plans to add as many as 2,000 hardware- and software-related positions in the city over the next few years. The company is leasing two 12-story buil… -
What Amazon Pays Its Newest Tech Hires
How much can a brand-new engineering recruit earn at Amazon? That's a vital question for hiring managers and recruiters trying to figure out how high to set their own companies' starting salaries… -
Game Developers Think AR Will Win Over VR: Survey
Many game developers are pumped by the prospect of augmented reality (AR), which superimposes digital holograms on the real-life environment, according to the Game Developers Conference’s annual… -
Do You Regret Your CS or Engineering Major?
Do tech professionals regret their college major? Some do, of course; a few years into their career, they might believe they should have majored in anything butcomputer science. Fortunately, a ne… -
Kotlin: How (and Why) Tech Professionals Use It
Kotlin has enjoyed a meteoric rise over the past few years. When we first issued a developer walkthrough in 2016, it seemed like relatively few people had ever heard of the language; by May 2019,… -
What Each U.S. State Pays Software Developers
Companies that want to hire software developers to build applications know that securing the right talent can often prove quite expensive. They're also well aware that the cost of talent varies d…