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Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands

TechCrunch LA

In terms of employee relations and safety, they want Netflix to recruit trans people, especially BIPOC, for leadership roles, allow employees to remove themselves from previous promotional content like allyship and diversity videos, and eliminate references and imagery of transphobic titles and talent in the workplace.

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

TechCrunch LA

Now, Microsoft-owned GitHub is gearing up to remove these references to slavery by naming primary code repositories “main” instead of “master.” Meet the Formerly Incarcerated Software Engineers who Built a No-Police Alternative to 911. These changes will go into effect on October 1. Send me an email at megan@techcrunch.com .

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Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early

SoCal CTO

There's an old adage in software development that I refer to all the time: The first 90% of development takes 90% of the time. I used this when I taught software engineering. The remaining 10%, takes the other 90% of the time.

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SaaS Is Dead, Long Live Software

InfoChachkie

Tim goes on to conclude that eventually AI will morph from verticalized, narrow intelligence, to “Artificial General Intelligence (which) refers to a computer that is as smart as a human across the board—a machine that can perform any intellectual task that a human being can.”.

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Interview with Neville Spiteri, TheBlu

socalTECH

Our focus is really what we refer to as globally shared media. Thirdly, at the end of the day, because this is ultimately software, we are building a very large, scalable web system. Part of our DNA is pure software engineering, and dealing with that large amount of data.

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Lean on Your Networks When Making Early Hires

Tech.Co

Companies such as Microsoft, Facebook and Google have all established employee referral programs that give employees monetary rewards for referring friends who get hired. If you hired an outstanding front-end software engineer, chances are they are friends with other outstanding software developers.

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

socalTECH

John Singleton: In reference to contests--one thing about our technology--is we have the only system like this on the web. I started my career as a technologist, as a software engineer. If our users run into a predatory publisher, or an agent charging fees, they can include that into their comments.

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