Coronavirus and Probability
For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.
Very interesting article about COBOL and floating point numbers!
The Internet is 50 years old today
Recommended Free Software
Resilio Sync: https://www.resilio.com/individuals/ Uses Bit Torrent protocol to sync folders between two or more computers (and mobile devices). GREAT thing to have! I use it to sync my entire Documents and Desktop between office and laptop computers. It also has an archive so can recover deleted files.
Evernote: https://evernote.com/why-evernote Note taking, cloud-based storage.
Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/ If you write research papers with lots of references, this is awesome. It stores all your references, captures references from websites, and organizes bibliographies. Plugs into OpenOffice Writer/Word
LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/ Free office suite replacement for MS Word/PowerPoint/Excel
Gimp: https://www.gimp.org/ Open source alternative to Photoshop
Inkscape: https://inkscape.org/en/ Open source alternative to Adobe Illustrator (vector graphics)
Python, Jupyter, iPython http://ipython.org/ Python replacement for MatLab.
GitKraken Pro Free for Students
Git, GitHub, and GitKraken are used in ICS 211 (and by many software companies!)
The US Navy will replace its touchscreen controls with mechanical ones on its destroyers
User interface design is not just about making things pretty!
Never have to login to KCC wifi again!
Enable wireless passthrough here: https://www.hawaii.edu/wireless/pt/pass.php
StackOverflow 2017 Developer Survey
Every year the StackOverflow.com website has a poll of software developers. Here are the results for 2017 from 64,000 software developers.
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#overview
They also have made a Salary Calculator to go along with it: