Collaborate Disseminate
A new Harris Poll shared exclusively with Fast Company found that most Americans would prefer to live “in a simpler era before everyone was obsessed with screens and social media,” reports Fast Company, adding “this sentiment is especially strong among… Continue reading Gen Xers and Older Millennials Say They’d Prefer to Live in an Era Before the Internet
Thelasko writes: Renowned data journalist, Nate Silver, announced he will be leaving the company as soon as his contract expires. Although Disney owns the FiveThirtyEight brand, it is believed that Silver retains ownership of the site’s algorithms. “AB… Continue reading Nate Silver To Leave FiveThirtyEight
What happens when Stack Overflow’s senior research analyst delves more deeply into results from their annual Developer Survey?
Rust, Elixir, Clojure, Typescript, and Julia are at the top of the list of Most Loved Programming Languages. However, in loo… Continue reading Can Stack Overflow’s Survey Predict Next Year’s Most Loved Programming Language?
Phoronix checks systemd’s Git activity in 2022 (and compares it to previous years):
If measuring a open-source project’s progress by the commity activity per year, while not the most practical indicator, systemd had a very good year. In 2022 there were… Continue reading Systemd’s Growth Over 2022
“HTTP Archive is a community-run project that has been tracking how the web is built since 2010,” explains its web site. “Using WebPageTest and Lighthouse under the hood, metadata about nearly 8.2 million websites are tested monthly and included in a p… Continue reading 2021 ‘Web Almanac’ Research Finds Lots of CSS, JavaScript, jQuery – and Not Much WebAssembly
“While workers who want to stay at home forever have been especially vocal about their demands, a silent majority of Americans do want to get back to the office, at least for a few days a week…” reports the New York Times. The article, shared by long… Continue reading ‘Silent Majority’ of Americans Don’t Want to Work Remotely Full-Time
Captain Kirk once said “The trouble with immortality is it’s boring.” But how many people agree with him?
Long-time Slashdot reader tinkers shares one answer. University of Texas scientists surveyed more than 900 adults living in the U.S. — an… Continue reading New Study: Only 33% Would Opt For Immortality
Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: Documents filed by Florida’s health department now “confirm two of the core aspects” of a whistleblower complaint filed by fired data manager Rebekah Jones, the Miami Herald reported Friday. “Sworn affidavits from Dep… Continue reading Florida’s Government May Have Ignored and Withheld Data About Covid-19 Cases
CBS News reports:
The number of U.S. suicides fell nearly 6% last year amid the coronavirus pandemic — the largest annual decline in at least four decades, according to preliminary government data. Death certificates are still coming in and the … Continue reading America’s Suicide Rate Declined in 2020 – Despite Lockdowns
An anonymous Slashdot reader warns of a possible miscalculation: 20 years ago today, cobolreport.com published
an article,
according to which there are 30 billion Customer Information Control System/COBOL transactions per day. This number has since bee… Continue reading Are We Overestimating the Number of COBOL Transactions Each Day?