ZDNet summarizes some of the surprises in this year’s poll on LinuxQuestions, “one of the largest Linux groups with 550,000 member”. An anonymous reader quotes their report: The winner for the most popular desktop distribution? Slackware…! Yes, one of the…
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew?
Open source guru Eric Raymond turns 60 this year, prompting this question from an anonymous reader: Eric Raymond’s newest writing project is “Things Every Hacker Once Knew,” inspired by the day he learned that not every programmer today’s knows the…
34 'Highly Toxic Users' Wrote 9% of the Personal Attacks On Wikipedia
Researchers used machine learning to analyze every single comment left on Wikipedia in 2015. An anonymous reader shares their results: 34 “highly toxic users” were responsible for 9% of all the personal attacks in the comments on Wikipedia, according to…
Angry Birds Is the Most-Banned Mobile App By Businesses
Barb Darrow, writing for Fortune: Corporate IT pros face the unenviable task of trying to protect valuable data from threats that change all the time. One vector of attack is clearly smartphones and tablets that employees use both for work…
Bay Area Tech Job Growth Has Rapidly Decelerated
An anonymous reader shares a MercuryNews report: Job growth in the tech industry used to zoom like a race car, but these days, hiring by this principal driver of the Bay Area’s economy chugs along more like a family SUV….