Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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What's the Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder?
Quick, what’s the average age of a successful startup founder? If you guessed something like 22 or 25—pretty much anything under 30—you’re probably influenced by the stories of Mark Zuckerberg, S… -
Apple's New iPad Pro May Demand Some App Tweaks
Apple finally deleted the physical Home button from the iPad Pro. It was a move long predicted by the various factions of tech punditry: once Apple chucked the Home button from the iPhone in favo… -
The Next Big Barrier Facing Artificial Intelligence: Common Sense
When armed with the right model, a machine-learning platform can rapidly improve its accuracy and success rate. Just look at Google’s A.I. tool that can detect the most common forms of lung cance… -
Kotlin, HCL, TypeScript Top GitHub's Fastest-Growing Languages
GitHub has released its latest Octoverse report, an extensive scan of its 96 million repositories and 200+ million pull requests, and found some interesting bits of data about the tech world’s fa… -
Trump Administration May Push Big Changes to H-1B Lottery System
The Trump administration is planning some changes to the H-1B lottery system. Those changes could see more highly educated workers obtaining the visa. According to Politico, which obtained its in… -
4 Tips for Leaving Your Company If a Poaching Firm Makes an Offer
The tech industry’s unemployment rate is low at the moment, which means that a lot of companies are securing talent by poaching their rivals’ best and brightest workers. The very act of poaching… -
How Pac-Man Might Make Artificial Intelligence Even Smarter
For decades, “Pac-Man” has presented video-game fans with a simple challenge: Navigate an onscreen maze, eat glowing dots along your path, avoid evil ghosts. Swallowing a particular kind of dot (… -
Video Game Designer: Fastest-Growing Tech Job in America?
“Video game designer” was one of the fastest-growing jobs over the past year, according to a new report from IT services firm Cognizant. Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work collaborated wit… -
Open Source Continues to Intimidate Many Developers
The open-source community seems healthy (and expanding), but there are always developers who haven’t contributed so much as a single line of code to a Github repo. According to Digital Ocean, whi… -
4 Tips for Surviving a Toxic Workplace Culture
There are consequences to a toxic workplace culture. It’s a leading cause of employee burnout. It can also impede managers’ ability to hire and retain workers, especially during a period of ultra…