Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs

In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.” ...
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Ruby is still the easiest programming language to learn—here's the proof

Ruby is an incredibly easy language to learn, and there's a lot of evidence why it is simple to break into and start.

The Block layoffs are just the beginning

I talked to one of the laid-off Block employees. He gave me a sobering warning.
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Block, A.I. and the Front-Running of the Curve

Quant’s Yousef Khalili explores Block’s layoffs as a structural test of whether A.I. has evolved from a productivity enhancer ...
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Hybrid Cloud Data at Uber: How Engineers Solved Extreme-Scale Replication Challenges

Uber’s HiveSync team optimized Hadoop Distcp to handle multi-petabyte replication across hybrid cloud and on-premise data ...