2016-05-17

3 IT skills that boost pay 22 percent - Business Insider

3 IT skills that boost pay 22 percent - Business Insider: "Scala, worth a 21.8% pay boost: Scala is a programming language that stands for 'scalable language' that has been experiencing a surge in popularity recently."

I wonder what the pay boost is for finding bugs in the Scala compiler that make Scala unsuitable for production work?

42 launches in the US - Business Insider

42 launches in the US - Business Insider: "A radical French technology school funded by $100 million from billionaire entrepreneur Xavier Niel is coming to Silicon Valley, and has plans to grow to 10,000 students in the next five years."

Here's the latest trend in paternalistic white ageism!

IBM's optical storage is 50 times faster than flash

IBM's optical storage is 50 times faster than flash: "Flash storage is too slow for your device's main memory, but RAM is expensive and volatile. Thanks to a breakthrough from IBM, phase-change memory (PCM) might one day replace them both."

Coming any day now. Like when I first heard about flash storage in 1983.

Microsoft releases Windows 10 preview for Raspberry Pi 3 • The Register

Microsoft releases Windows 10 preview for Raspberry Pi 3 • The Register: "Microsoft's keen to be associated with the Pi mission of teaching computing to kiddies. But Redmond also has its own interests to advance, namely that that Windows 10 IoT Core provides hooks a-plenty to Azure, with the cloudy service offering all sorts of as-a-services that thing-makers can use to collect and crunch data."

Strategic thinking at it's best.