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Holograms Are Open For Business

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And in scenarios where groups of engineers need to review three-dimensional simulations of phenomenon like the mechanical stresses in to-be-printed parts and complex biological systems in the Looking Glass Pro as if they were viewing the real thing.

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It’s An Agile World

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The backend infrastructure that handles all the Internet connectivity and services for a world-wide distributed technology that was built by a team of 150 engineers overseas. implemented with 2 engineers compared to an estimated 25 for the old system. It reminds me of my current project at my day job. deploys in 30 seconds.

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Resources for Girls Learning to Code

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Ever since I first got involved in National Center for Women & Information Technology , I’ve been deep in the problem of underrepresentation of women in computer science and entrepreneurship. Software Engineer Insider. I hope to work with her for a long time. Learn to Code. Khan Academy. Code Academy. Learn Street.

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More Coders. More Diversity.

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Too often, aspiring engineers who lack the funds to pursue a computer science degree from a university or take part in a bootcamp find themselves locked out of technology jobs, despite often severe talent shortages. As Heather told me, “I have an Ivy League education, but that’s not where I learned to code.

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In WordPress Hosting Hell? Pantheon Now Supports WordPress

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Startup engineering teams are now tasked with managing a CMS system. The startup’s ops and engineering team. At Foundry Group we went through a similar pattern, but here at Foundry it was Ryan (a co-founder and former engineering leader at Excite) who played the role of VP Eng. This is where things start to break down.

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Feld.com Automagically Upgraded To HTTPS By Pantheon

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In this new era of state sponsored hacking and fully professionalized cybercrime, it is heartening to see engineers get seriously organized and tackle something on the scale of securing the entire web. Website technology providers had to make HTTPS a turnkey experience. The drive to HTTPS the web did not happen by accident.

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Time To Really Deal With The Broken Software Patent System

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While a bunch of software engineers I know thought software patents were bogus, I had trouble getting anyone else to speak out against software patents. If the current administration wants to improve job creation, change patent law and watch jobs among small technology companies develop instantly.&#. But that has changed.

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