Weekend Reader Week 12 - Salary
Stackoverflow Developer Survey Results 2016
Each year Stackoverflow conducts a survey. This year, 56’033 coders in 173 countries answered the call. The results are always interesting interesting.
As in the previous two years JavaScript and SQL are the most popular technologies.
As I am living in Switzerland, I found the following chart interesting: Developers in the US earn more than in Switzerland and salary matters more over there …
Am I wrong to think that programmers are overpaid?
Programmers are in effect the “necessary evil” in modern civilization these days - loved and vilified.
Is it possible to earn 500k (all included) per year after working as a Software Engineer at Google for 6 years?
These are amazing numbers they fling around on Quora … hard to believe for me when comparing against the stackoverflow survey above.
Is there really a developer shortage?
In fact, cheating efficiently is what makes the best developers/programmers and the art of effective cheating is in fact engineering.
An interesting opinion on what skills matter today in programming …
GitHub: Poster child no more?
For a long time GitHub seemed the paradise for programmers, the following video from 2013 depicts the perfect company:
According to the linked article the culture at Github has changed a lot since 2013. GitHub seems to suffer from the curse of growing:
As the company has grown to nearly 500 employees, it has tried to change cultures and impose an old-fashioned hierarchy.
How an irate developer briefly broke JavaScript
The JavaScript ecosystem is quite a mess. I guess hardly anyone is realizing how much dependencies a “modern JavaScript” setup has … until something like that happens …
What would be the proper way to avoid such a scenario? Building an enterprise npm repository? Checking in node_modules into source control?
Netflix JavaScript Talks - RxJS Version 5
This video gives a very good overview of concepts for asynchronous programming in JavaScript. And if you did not yet look into RxJS, you should start now …
Jetbrains: The unicorn Silicon Valley doesn’t like to talk about
10 years ago, Eclipse was such a huge force. Jetbrains was expected to die eventually. However they have managed to eclipse Eclipse.
A nice analysis on what matters to make your product successful in the long run …
SQL Server on Linux
For all those who missed it: Microsoft is changing …
Oldie but Funny: Deep Agile – Ya Know, Like Teenage Sex
Agile development is like teenage sex. Everyone says they’re doing it, but only 10% are. And those who are — ARE DOING IT WRONG.
Tweets of the Week
This ad is placed in the right subreddit pic.twitter.com/5chY4Ah1Iw
— Lukas Eder (@lukaseder) March 14, 2016
Marc was almost ready to implement his "hello world" React app pic.twitter.com/ptdg4yteF1
— Thomas Fuchs (@thomasfuchs) March 12, 2016
"Stack Overflow is the lead developer on my team."
— J✪hann Gyger (@_jogy_) March 23, 2016
- @mraible
I’m sure I’ve read about DRY (“Don’t Repeat Yourself”) more than once.
— Glyn Normington (@glynnormington) March 1, 2016
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