World's Best Living Programmers; Phone Wiping Fails to Completely Delete Your Personal Data

Python Surpasses Java as Top Learning Language | TSA Prohibits Taking Dead Devices onto Planes To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend World's Best Living Programmers Phone Wiping Fails to Completely Delete Your Personal Data 'Normal Humans' Excluded from Software Development Python Surpasses Java as Top Learning Language TSA Prohibits Taking Dead Devices onto Planes Hot Comment: "Microsoft has been writing poor quality software for my entire life. The best..." From the Vault: Any 'Pretty' Code Out There? Watch It: Will Google's Dart Kill Javascript? Poll Booth: My most recent energy-saving bulbs last ... Sponsored Resource: Top 8 Considerations to Enable and Simplify Mobility World's Best Living Programmers itwbennett writes, "How do you measure success? If it's by Stack Overflow reputation, Google engineer Jon Skeet is the world's best programmer. If it's winning programming competitions, Gennady Korotkevich or Petr Mitrechev might be your pick. But what about Linus Torvalds? Or Richard Stallman? ITworld's Phil Johnson has rounded up a list of what just might be the world's top 14 programmers alive today." Sound Off>> Phone Wiping Fails to Completely Delete Your Personal Data Antivirus company Avast bought 20 used Android phones off eBay, and used some basic data recovery software to reconstruct deleted files. From just those 20 phones, researchers pulled over 40,000 photographs, including family pictures of children and ... personal pictures. They also recovered hundreds of emails and text messages, over a thousand Google searches, a completed loan application, and other personal information. Sound Off>> 'Normal Humans' Excluded from Software Development Jonathan Edwards posted an interesting rant about how the culture of programming unfairly excludes some groups. He writes that "The way things are today if you want to be a programmer you had best be someone like me on the autism spectrum who has spent their entire life mastering vast realms of arcane knowledge -- and enjoys it. Normal humans are effectively excluded from developing software." Sound Off>> Python Surpasses Java as Top Learning Language The most popular language used to introduce U.S. students to programming and computer science is now Python, which narrowly edged out Java from the top spot, according to a recent survey posted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Java has been the dominant introductory teaching language over the past decade. Sound Off>> TSA Prohibits Taking Dead Devices onto Planes The U.S. Transport Security Administration has said that new security procedures on flights coming to the U.S. now include not allowing uncharged cell phones and other devices onto planes, adding that during  security examinations, officers may ask owners to power up their devices. "Powerless devices will not be permitted on board the aircraft. The traveler may also undergo additional screening," the TSA said. Sound Off>> Bad programming "Microsoft has been writing poor quality software for my entire life. The best programmers do not go to work for Microsoft. Maybe that was the case in the early 90's but it hasn't been true for decades. To make matters worse, Microsoft does a lot of its programming in..." --by jgotts Read More>>   Any 'Pretty' Code Out There? Seven years ago, andhow wrote,"Getting to know a piece of software well enough to ascertain its quality takes a long time, so I submit to the experience of the readership: what projects have you worked on which you felt had admirable code, both high-level architecture and in-the-trenches implementation?" Read More>>  Will Google's Dart Kill Javascript? Google Web engineer and Chrome Developer Advocate Seth Ladd talks to Timothy Lord about open source Web programming language Dart. The goal of Dart is  to "ultimately to replace JavaScript as the lingua franca of web development on the open web platform," according to Wikipedia. A bold aim, indeed, and not one that everyone agrees with. See what Seth has to say. Watch the Video>>   My most recent energy-saving bulbs last ... 2 months or less 2-4 months 5-8 months 9-14 months 15-23 months 2-3 years More than 3 years Never had one fail Cast Your Vote>>    Top 8 Considerations to Enable and Simplify Mobility IT departments have a huge opportunity to make their enterprises more agile, cost efficient and competitive by embracing the opportunities available through mobile devices and constant connectivity. Supporting a more mobile workforce and customer base is a necessity. Learn More>>   Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.