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In a blog post, personal analytics service RescueTime revealed exactly what days and times we were most productive in 2017, by studying the anonymized data of how people spent their time on their computers and phones over the past 12 months. From the r… Continue reading The Most Productive Days and Times In 2017
Slashdot’s most-visited story of 2017 was Google Has Demonstrated a Successful Practical Attack Against SHA-1, which was visited more than 212,000 times since it was published in Feburary. And our second- and third-most popular stories also came in Feb… Continue reading Slashdot’s 10 Most-Visited Stories of 2017
“Merry Christmas” is the preferred greeting of a strong majority of Americans. A survey carried in conjunction by news outlet Axios and SurveyMonkey found that 65 percent of the participants wish to be greeted with “Merry Christmas,” while 28% prefer “… Continue reading The Majority of Americans Prefer To Be Greeted With ‘Merry Christmas’ Over ‘Happy Holidays’, a Poll Finds
Long-time Slashdot reader gollum123 quotes MarketWatch:
Are you doing better than the previous generation? The Pew Research Center, a nonprofit think tank in Washington, D.C., asked nearly 43,000 people in 38 countries around the globe that question th… Continue reading Researchers Ask: Are People Better Off Than 50 Years Ago?
“The JavaScript world is richer and messier than ever,” reports this year’s annual “State of JavaScript” survey, which collected data from over 28,000 developers on everything from favorite frameworks to flavors of JavaScript. SD Times reports:
“A few … Continue reading ‘State of JavaScript’ Survey Results: Good News for React and TypeScript
An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet:
Stories have been circulating that the Linux desktop had jumped in popularity and was used more than macOS. Alas, it’s not so… These reports have been based on NetMarketShare’s desktop operating system analysis, whic… Continue reading No, the Linux Desktop Hasn’t Jumped in Popularity
An anonymous reader writes:
Palo Alto-based HackerRank, which offers online programmng challenges, “dug into our data of about 450,000 unique U.S. developers to uncover which states are home to the best software engineers, and which pockets of the coun… Continue reading HackerRank Tries To Calculate Which US States Have The Best Developers
An anonymous reader quotes a story from Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight site about “the worst internet in America”:
FiveThirtyEight analyzed every county’s broadband usage using data from researchers at the University of Iowa and Arizona State University… Continue reading Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access?
The Guardian reports:
Almost every graduate taking an unpaid internship can expect to be worse off three years later than if they had gone straight into work. That is the shock finding of the first survey of its kind of the career trajectories of tens … Continue reading Unpaid Internships Lead To Lower-Paying Jobs, Study Finds
Phoronix is hosting a 2017 Linux Laptop Survey. From their site:
While Linux laptop compatibility is much better than where it was years ago, it’s still not too uncommon to run into display/hybrid issues, shorter battery life under Linux than Windows … Continue reading Phoronix Announces ‘2017 Linux Laptop Survey’