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How to Attract Passionate Developers to Your Startup How can startups continue to attract the best and brightest talent—developers, in particular? Although corporations aren’t the “bad guy” they once were, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, and other big players still offer many perks that the average, strapped-for-cash startup simply can't provide. |
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Are Your Kids Coding Yet? Sign Them Up for the Hour of Code Code.org is launching a program called the "Hour of Code"—a nationwide effort to introduce computer science to ten million students, coinciding with Computer Science Education Week in December 2013. Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, and more than one hundred other partners are participating. |
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Two Lessons Learned from Nokia's Downfall It was not long ago that the news about Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's devices business came to light. For years, Nokia was a leader in mobile phone devices before suffering a near fatal fall in the past few years. Anuj Magazine looks at two lessons we can learn from Nokia's downfall. |
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Stop Blaming Changing Requirements for Your Project's Failure Blaming changing requirements for a project's downfall is about as misguided as it gets. When you start accepting that change is in coming and you start preparing for it by using iterative development, you'll see that dreading or fighting change is the only way to ensure failure. |
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Is There Room for a Third Mobile Operating System? iOS and Android have a dominating presence in the mobile operating system world and in their associated app stores. The market shares for each of them keep varying over time, but the two together have such a strong hold that the question remains: Is there space for a third player? |
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Developers Get a Civics Lesson with Open Source Government Projects If you’re a civic-minded programmer who would like your government to be more open and more efficient, you now have the option to help make it happen. A recently launched portal called GitHub and Government lets users collaborate on projects to solve problems and make information more available. |
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October Software News Roundup In this software news roundup, learn about the launch of SecureDrop, the online whistle-blowing platform of Internet activist Aaron Swartz; new software that helps the blind practice yoga correctly; and how GE and Boeing are teaming up to create code that prevents ice buildup in airplane engines. |