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Why did Google close its coding competitions after 20 years?

The Pragmatic Engineer

On 22 February 2023, Google announced its coding competitions are coming to an end: The visual that accompanied the announcement of the end of Google’s coding competitions. What were these competitions? Code Jam: competitive programming. Hash Code: team programming.

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The Pulse: Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?

The Pragmatic Engineer

Will the US be content being a less competitive place for startups? In January last year, in a Wall Street Journal article, policy analyst, Alex Muresianu, estimated this tax code change would cost the US about 20,000 full-time software engineering jobs. You need to keep adding new features and keep up with the competition.

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Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?

The Pragmatic Engineer

The company says: “Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork. years ago, and it became the leading AI coding assistant almost overnight. It’s more a copilot.

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Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt?

The Pragmatic Engineer

The company says: “Devin is the new state-of-the-art on the SWE-Bench coding benchmark, has successfully passed practical engineering interviews from leading AI companies, and has even completed real jobs on Upwork. years ago, and it became the leading AI coding assistant almost overnight. It’s more a copilot.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Going from Developer to CEO: Chronosphere

The Pragmatic Engineer

However, Martin had not written a line of production code for the last four years, as he’s taken on the role of CEO, and heads up observability scaleup Chronosphere – at more than 250 people and growing. From learning to code in Australia, to working in Silicon Valley How did I learn to code?

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Data News — Week 24.11

Christophe Blefari

The State of competitive machine learning — a study about ML competition platforms. Coding data pipelines is faster than renting connector catalogs — This is something I've always believed. Starting today it will be supported by 3 majors platforms: Kaggle, HuggingFace and OpenML. It's inspirational.

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