Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Metro Areas with the Highest Percentage of STEM Jobs
Have you ever wondered whether you need to move to San Francisco or New York City to land a high-paying STEM job? The answer, of course, is no: Over the past several years, a number of cities acr… -
Kotlin Accelerating in Usage, Buzz: RedMonk Rankings
Developer interest in Kotlin is accelerating, according to the latest data from analyst firm RedMonk. A few times a year, RedMonk’s analysts sit down and rank programming languages according to u… -
Corpse of Microsoft's Clippy Still Offers Valuable Lessons
If you’re a tech pro of a certain age, you no doubt have traumatic memories of Clippy, Microsoft’s “Office Assistant” (rendered as a cheerful, anthropomorphic paperclip) that would pop up at inop… -
Most Popular Machine Learning Languages and Packages: GitHub
Like “Big Data” before it, “machine learning” has become one of those near-ubiquitous buzz-terms, thrown around not only by experts, but also marketing and PR people who want their company to sou… -
Groovy Enjoying the Grooviest Rise Among Programming Languages
Groovy (the programming language) is getting groovier, according to the February update of the TIOBE Index, which ranks the world’s most popular programming languages. Over the past year, Groovy… -
Google's Stadia Poses Big Questions for Game Developers
Google has launched a new gaming platform, Stadia, that it hopes will allow it to take a huge chunk of the multi-billion-dollar gaming market. As you’d expect from any Google product, Stadia is a… -
Does 'Old' in Tech Mean 35? This Crying Techie on the Beach Thinks So.
When it comes to the tech industry, how old is “old”? Those tech pros attending the “Modern Elder Academy,” located on a scenic beach in Mexico, certainly feel old. A one-week program, which cost… -
Theranos Raises the Question of Bad Companies on Your Résumé
A new piece on CNN Business shows that former employees of Theranos, the disgraced blood-technology firm, are having trouble landing new work. As documented in John Carreyrou’s excellent “Bad Blo… -
Machine Learning Engineer: Best Job in the United States?
What’s the best job in the United States? According to a new study by Indeed, it’s machine learning engineer. The job-posting website reached that conclusion after analyzing two factors: fastest… -
Retaliation Still a Huge Problem Among Tech Firms: Survey
Retaliation is a sad fact of office life. You submit a formal complaint over a colleague’s inappropriate behavior, only to find yourself the target of substantial blowback—you’re demoted, shifted…