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How Programming Makes for a Better You Whether you are a child still in school or an adult on the back side of your business career, coding has something to teach everyone—about life. Read on to see how there are many great life habits, traits, and skills that can be gained from learning to code and how coding can make for a better you. |
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Information Technology Predictions for 2014 The information technology (IT) field has a plethora of people discussing predictions for the coming year. In this story, Joe Townsend explores many of those predictions. Hopefully next year, we can look back and see if they were fulfilled or completely missed. |
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Why You Should Learn COBOL Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) is taught in only a third of US schools. Yet, COBOL is responsible for more than 70 percent of the world's business transactions. If that isn't reason enough to stop what you're doing and learn COBOL, then read on to see exactly why you should. |
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Why the Best Programmers Are Lazy and Act Dumb It seems to defy all logic, but the best programmers have two usually undesirable traits: They’re lazy and dumb. That’s the point of a classic post by web developer and blogger Philipp Lenssen, and his ideas don’t stay controversial for long. Here's why those programmers actually do the best work. |
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Target Investigating Security Breach of 40 Million Card Accounts Target is investigating a security breach where credit card and debit card information was stolen from millions of customers starting on Black Friday. The information was apparently stolen when customers swiped their cards at machines during checkout in stores. 40 million cards were compromised. |