Daily News - The global state of the internet in April 2017

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Monday, April 17, 2017 View online Tips? Send 'em to Insider@codeproject.com Advertisements How can you help your team write better, shareable SQL faster? Learn more with our free video tips that show how SQL Prompt lets you write, refactor, and share SQL. An add-in for SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio, it strips away the repetition of coding and standardizes it everywhere. Need to create Excel Charts? Use SpreadsheetGear to enable users to visualize data with comprehensive Excel-compatible charting, which makes creating, modifying, rendering and interacting with complex charts easier than ever before. Try it now! Industry News For programmers, the ultimate office perk is avoiding the office entirely Stack Overflow found programmers who always work from home are about 11% more satisfied with their jobs than those who never do. Source: Quartz DMCA "safe harbor" up in the air for online sites that use moderators Etsy, Kickstarter, Pinterest, and Tumblr say site moderation hangs in the balance. Source: Ars Technica Burger King hijacks the Google Assistant, gets shut down by Google Before the ad was disabled, the Google Assistant would verbally read a list of ingredients from Wikipedia. Source: Ars Technica The government accused Google of "quite extreme" gender discrimination In the past year, the Labor Department has sued two other Silicon Valley companies — Palantir and Oracle — for unequal pay practices. Source: Vox The global state of the internet in April 2017 More than 3.8 billion people around the world use the internet today, up 38 million since January 2017 Source: TheNextWeb Source: Dilbert Developer News Information Security Certifications are Worthless and Causing More Harm than Good Dan Tentler, founder of the attack simulation consultancy Phobos Group, believes that "ISC2 is making money hand over fist," and that the organization is "diluting the market with people who have no idea what they're doing." Source: Tactical Network Solutions HTTP/2 Is Not Future. It's Present. HTTP/2 can be used starting today on your web applications and can only be good Source: Eleven Labs Low-Level Programming University Beginner resources. Source: GitHub AI wins $290,000 in Chinese poker competition Yea, but can it beat beginners? Source: BBC Science and Technology The world's two most powerful telescopes are glorious—and vulnerable On a cloudy night, an astronomer might see nothing and have to rebook a telescope. "It is brutal, but it's part of being an astronomer." Source: Ars Technica Code Project Discussions - Your say! NASA scientists are releasing new global maps of Earth at night Lights pretty. Source: CodeProject © 2017 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. To stop receiving The Code Project Insider News click Unsubscribe. CodeProject 503-250 Ferrand Drive, Toronto Ontario, M3C 3G8 Canada +1 416-849-8900 x 100 Please do not reply directly to this email. It was sent from an unattended mailbox. For correspondence please use Insider@codeproject.com