The hot tech gig of 2022: Data scientist

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/01/06/data-scientist-jobs/

"A decade from now the smart techies who decided to become app
developers may wish they had taken an applied-mathematics class or
two. The coming deluge of data (more on that in a moment) will
create demand for a new kind of computer scientist -- a gig that's
one part mathematician, one part product-development guru, and one
part detective."

Programmer personality types: 13 profiles in code

This article best read with tongue in cheek.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/programmer-personality-types-13-profiles-in-code-185343?page=0,0&source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2012-02-06

"Anyone who has worked with the machines knows that programmers
arent just one undifferentiated group, but a club with a wide
variety of subspecies. From those who will go to any length to
avoid documentation to those who deploy code like duct tape, refuse
to use libraries, or cant help but rewrite their apps in the latest
experimental programming language, programmers are a colorful lot
-- particularly in their perspectives and habits -- though
collectively comrades in code."

A Mormon church in need of reform

From the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-mormon-church-in-need-of-reform/2012/01/27/gIQA3s44aQ_story.html

Start-ups hindered by software patents

You'll be amazed at the patents awarded to obvious techniques taught
in any CS program and utilized by any competent software practitioner.

http://www.stormdriver.com/blog/start-ups-in-the-maze-of-software-patents/

Why Can't U.S. Students Compete With the Rest of the World?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/28/why-can-t-u-s-students-compete-with-the-rest-of-the-world.html

It's time to make poor coding a felony

File this under it'll never happen.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/it-might-be-time-make-poor-coding-felony-417?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2011-07-11

Anonymous hackers intercept conversation between FBI and Scotland Yard on how to deal with hackers

One wonders at the wisdom of entrusting cyber security to an
organization that cannot keep its own communications secure.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9059580/Anonymous-hackers-intercept-conversation-between-FBI-and-Scotland-Yard-on-how-to-deal-with-hackers.html