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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

TechCrunch LA

This probably isn’t news to developers, but it was news to me when I found out many tech companies still use slave-master language. A new poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies found that it’s going to be a close election. Human Capital will soon be available as a weekly newsletter. You can sign up here.

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LA-Based Coding Bootcamp Codesmith Boasts 96% Hiring Rate

Tech.Co

Fortunately, study after study has shown that IT professionals and computer science graduates are going home with the biggest paychecks on a regular basis. The key to creating software engineers that are capable and effective in their roles is to teach more than coding. Finding a job can be hard.

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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

Xconomy

Megan Palmer, a fellow and biosecurity researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, hoped DARPA’s program would encourage a more holistic approach to biosafety in a growing field where many people, such as software engineers, might not have thought much about biosafety and security risks.

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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

socalTECH

Costin Tuculescu: I cam out of UC Irvine as a software engineer, studying computer science. So it will be lots of business development and marketing in the next few months. That gives 60 impressions per attendee per hour, which adds up fairly quickly when you're serving up hundreds of thousands of webinars a month.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. But it turns out I met a bunch of really interesting entrepreneurs. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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How to Teach Computational Thinking

Xconomy

I myself have been involved with computational thinking for nearly 40 years now—building technology for it, applying it in lots of places, studying its basic science—and trying to understand its principles. So how do we prepare the kids of today for this future? So now the question is how to educate kids about it.