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Articles for Programmers

China’s volunteer programmers work in the shadows to set the internet free
6 months, 3 weeks ago

China’s volunteer programmers work in the shadows to set the internet free

Al Jazeera  

Taipei, Taiwan – Chinese programmer Chen earns his living working remotely for a Western tech company. Chen is a volunteer “maintainer” who helps run V2Ray, one of a number of open-source virtual private networks and proxy servers that are gaining in popularity amid China’s crackdown on commercial VPNs, which are illegal to use without government authorisation. It’s not battery included.” …

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ChatGPT Isn't Coming for Your Coding Job
1 year, 3 months ago

ChatGPT Isn't Coming for Your Coding Job

Wired  

Software engineers have joined the ranks of copy editors, translators, and others who fear that they’re about to be replaced by generative AI. New technologies have long promised to “disrupt” engineering, and these innovations have always failed to get rid of the need for human software developers. To the computer scientist John Backus, for instance, calling coders “programmers” or “engineers” …

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ChatGPT can easily be hired for an entry-level coding job at Google, report reveals
1 year, 10 months ago

ChatGPT can easily be hired for an entry-level coding job at Google, report reveals

India Today  

Google is losing its sleep over OpenAI’s new ChatGPT. Now a new report has stated that ChatGPT is so efficient and on point with its skills that it can easily bag an entry-level coding job at Google. We are not saying it but Google found this while comparing its ChatGPT while comparing it with its own AI chatbot tool, which …

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Explaining Hollywood: How to get a job as a film festival programmer
1 year, 11 months ago

Explaining Hollywood: How to get a job as a film festival programmer

LA Times  

Film festival programmers search far and wide for the best films for their audience. “It’s like summer camp,” said Faridah Gbadamosi, senior programmer at the Tribeca Film Festival. “Every now and then, there’ll be a film that I’m like, ‘My life is better after seeing that.’” To learn more about being a film festival programmer, The Times spoke with Yutani, …

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UK immigration: New scale-up visa to ease work permits for skilled professionals
2 years, 3 months ago

UK immigration: New scale-up visa to ease work permits for skilled professionals

Live Mint  

The UK government announced the launch of the new scale-up visa which is likely to help the country's top high-growth businesses to attract the world’s top talents including scientists, engineers, architects, programmers, and other skilled professionals to work for them. Regarding the new visa, Kevin Foster, Minister for Safe and Legal Migration, said, rapidly growing businesses, like small enterprises, tech …

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Review: ‘Proving Ground’ profiles first women programmers
2 years, 4 months ago

Review: ‘Proving Ground’ profiles first women programmers

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — “Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women who Programmed the World’s First Supercomputer,” by Kathy Kleiman When the world’s first general-purpose, programmable, electronic computer, known as ENIAC, debuted in 1946, great fanfare was given to the men who created it, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr., among others. In “Proving Ground,” author Kleiman aims …

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Ilaiyaraaja: ‘There are no composers today, only programmers’
2 years, 9 months ago

Ilaiyaraaja: ‘There are no composers today, only programmers’

The Hindu  

There are signs of music everywhere in Ilaiyaraaja’s new tastefully-done studio in Chennai’s Kodambakkam. “These last two years were a dark phase for many people,” says Ilaiyaraaja, popularly known as ‘Isaignani’ for his musical expertise. In a marked departure from his gentle melodies, this time he says he is focussing on “fun” — promos have him urging people to ‘dance …

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Where are the programmers?
3 years, 3 months ago

Where are the programmers?

The Hindu  

Every year, lakhs of youngsters graduate with computer science, computer application and engineering degrees from Indian universities. Since the companies are convinced that new computer science graduates don’t have these skills, they screen them for logical reasoning/aptitude tests and train them in programming languages. We need computer science faculty with good programming skills. And then programming will become the default …

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Open Source Programmer Moves Kerala High Court Against IT Intermediary Rules 2021
3 years, 8 months ago

Open Source Programmer Moves Kerala High Court Against IT Intermediary Rules 2021

Live Law  

On Friday, a free-and-open-source programmer moved the Kerala High Court challenging the Information Technology Rules, 2021. It has further asked the court quash Part II of the IT Rules 2021, direct the government to form rules in line with IT Act 2000 and the Supreme Court's dictum in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India, and a declaration of the right …

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US charges North Korean computer programmers in global hacks
3 years, 10 months ago

US charges North Korean computer programmers in global hacks

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has charged three North Korean computer programmers in a broad range of global hacks, including a destructive attack targeting an American movie studio, and in the attempted theft and extortion of more than $1.3 billion from banks and companies, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. “What we see emerging uniquely out of North Korea is trying to …

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IIT Madras-incubated start-up Guvi to train over 10 million programmers
3 years, 10 months ago

IIT Madras-incubated start-up Guvi to train over 10 million programmers

The Hindu  

Guvi, a start-up incubated by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, is on a mission to train over 10 million programmes in the coming months. The start-up, which trains students in coding practice and assessment, has already reached five lakh engineering students through its e-learning platform, using regional languages. Balamurugan, co-founder and chief executive officer of Guvi said that the …

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The Rise of One of the First Video Game Workers Unions
3 years, 10 months ago

The Rise of One of the First Video Game Workers Unions

Wired  

This story is adapted from Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone, by Sarah Jaffe. The schools, Agwaze and other programmers explained to me in a London pub, pump out “eight gazillion” games developer grads, for whom there are not necessarily enough good jobs. I can handle bad conditions.’” He wanted …

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Programmers say Uber Eats is systematically underpaying their workers
4 years, 4 months ago

Programmers say Uber Eats is systematically underpaying their workers

Salon  

Uber Eats workers may have overheard the internet buzz about a new browser plug-in, cheekily called "Uber Cheats." "I had this one delivery that was an hour-and-a-half long and I got paid $16 and I thought, 'There is no way that's right,'" Armin Samii, an unemployed computer scientist who has been working Uber Eats on the side, told Salon. "Just …

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