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Some Companies Using Software to Monitor Their EmployeesNew reports coming out detail just how far companies have gone in using software that monitors their employees' behaviors—all in the name of productivity and safety. These new tools lead us to question which is more important—workplace efficiency or employee satisfaction? | 
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How to Attract Passionate Developers to Your Startup How can startups continue to attract the best and brightest talent—developers, in particular? Although corporations aren’t the “bad guy” they once were, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, and other big players still offer many perks that the average, strapped-for-cash startup simply can't provide. |
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Are Your Kids Coding Yet? Sign Them Up for the Hour of CodeCode.org is launching a program called the "Hour of Code"—a nationwide effort to introduce computer science to ten million students, coinciding with Computer Science Education Week in December 2013. Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, and more than one hundred other partners are participating. | 
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Stop Blaming Changing Requirements for Your Project's FailureBlaming changing requirements for a project's downfall is about as misguided as it gets. When you start accepting that change is in coming and you start preparing for it by using iterative development, you'll see that dreading or fighting change is the only way to ensure failure. |
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Developers Get a Civics Lesson with Open Source Government ProjectsIf you’re a civic-minded programmer who would like your government to be more open and more efficient, you now have the option to help make it happen. A recently launched portal called GitHub and Government lets users collaborate on projects to solve problems and make information more available. | 
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October Software News RoundupIn this software news roundup, learn about the launch of SecureDrop, the online whistle-blowing platform of Internet activist Aaron Swartz; new software that helps the blind practice yoga correctly; and how GE and Boeing are teaming up to create code that prevents ice buildup in airplane engines. |
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Processing Language’s Data Visualizations Getting Cooler Every DayWhile everyone's ooohing and ahhhing about Foursquare's new olive branch to small businesses, a large number of people in the world have no idea what Foursquare and numerous other companies are doing with Processing—a "design-centric" programming language that's changing the world. |
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Teen Creates Global Online Coding Competition for High Schoolers"I had an idea to create a competition for high school students around the world, like me, who want to create something but don’t have a place to do it.” That was the motivation for Ethan Eirinberg, the sixteen-year-old founder of the CreateHS coding competition, which emphasizes—yes—creativity. |
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