Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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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… -
U.S. States Where Software Developers Earn the Most (and Least) Money
Software development can prove an absurdly lucrative position, provided your circumstances line up in just the right way. But if you’re unlucky, it can also pay squat—especially if you’re an indi… -
Facebook Libra Cryptocurrency Offers Possibility to Developers
Facebook is pushing into the digital currency business with Libra, which it plans to launch in the first half of 2020. The social network won’t have total control over this new cryptocurrency; in… -
Python Could Rule the Machine Learning/A.I. World
What do developers actually use Python for? According to a developer survey by JetBrains (which also introduced Kotlin, the up-and-coming language for Android development), some 49 percent say th… -
Amazon Game Studio Layoffs Hint at Long-Running Issues
Amazon has reportedly laid off dozens of employees in its game division. According to Kotaku, the gaming blog that broke the story, these employees were told late last week that they have 60 days… -
Google Game Builder Hints at No-Code Game Development
If you’ve ever tried to develop a video game, you know it’s a tough process. For starters, it’s a programming challenge; and on top of that, you need to be creative enough to build something that… -
Riot Games Investigated for Gender, Pay Discrimination
Pay disparity between men and women is a huge issue in tech, and it’s not likely to go away anytime soon. Big tech firms such as Google have announced efforts to internally police their own pay p… -
IBM's AutoAI and the Race to Automate ML and A.I.
For years, the sheer messiness of data slowed efforts to launch artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning projects. Companies weren’t willing to wait a year or two while data analysts c…