Government Wants Your Fitbit Data Because You May Be a Mass Murderer Nate Swanner, September 3, 2019 6 min read A new report from The Washington Post suggests the White House has been briefed on a potential new agency named...
Is Developer Pay Evenly Distributed, or Do a Few Take Most? Nick Kolakowski, February 13, 2018 4 min read A few years ago, a developer named Dan Luu published an interesting analysis of developer compensation. Although his...
Twitter Alters API Program, Asks Devs to Pay Nate Swanner, April 7, 2017 7 min read Twitter Twitter's long, twisted history with developers just took another strange turn. The company has changed its...
Wall Street Trading Software Needs Controls: AdaCore CEO Nick Kolakowski, August 13, 2012 2 min read When computers run amok in sci-fi movies, they do highly antisocial things like kill all the crewmembers aboard a...
Microsoft and NYPD Pair for Data-Fed Monitoring System Nick Kolakowski, August 9, 2012 3 min read New York City is partnering with Microsoft on an analytics platform that can collect and analyze public-safety data...
Big Data Makes Things Better David Strom, August 3, 2012 9 min read Big Data is everywhere. As Bit.ly's chief scientist Hilary Mason likes to say: “Big Data usually refers to a...
Hadoop Market Will Hit $2.2 Billion by 2018: Report Nick Kolakowski, August 2, 2012 3 min read A new report by Market Research Media suggests that the current spike of interest in Apache Hadoop will continue...
Developer Interest High for iOS Apps, Windows 8: Survey Nick Kolakowski, July 24, 2012 2 min read A few years back, more than a few analysts might have dismissed Apple’s chances among enterprise users. That was...
Businesses Struggling with Data Flood: Survey Nick Kolakowski, July 17, 2012 3 min read Business executives are struggling with the massive amounts of data flooding their organizations, according to a...
R, Octave, and Python: A Follow-Up Bei Lu, July 6, 2012 8 min read In my recent article posted on May 16, I compared functionalities for R, Octave and Python at a very high level....