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Stripe will be giving a one-time $20,000 bonus to employees who choose to move out of San Francisco, New York, or Seattle before the end of 2020 while simultaneously cutting their base pay by up to 10%.
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- The news comes after VMware implemented a similar policy last week. Facebook and Twitter are also considering such measures.
- According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, San Francisco Bay area and New York have the highest prices for rent among large metropolitan areas in the U.S.
- In 2019, Stripe created a remote engineering hub and also promised to hire 100 remote engineers and other staff.
- Stripe is one of the U.S.'s most valuable closely held start-ups and is valued at $36b.
BLOOMBERG
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The stable version of Java 15 has been released. Oracle will issue two quarterly critical security patches for the version before releasing Java 16 in March 2021. Here are some notable changes from the new release:
- Support for text blocks and hidden classes
- The Z Garbage Collector (ZGC) is now a product feature, while the Shenandoah low-pause-time garbage collector has also become a production feature
- Preview version of sealed classes are now available
- Removal of the Nashorn JavaScript Engine
- Support for cryptographic signatures using EdDSA (Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm).
Click here to view a full list of other updates.
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⚒️ Most Interesting and Useful New Tools Trending This Week:
After scouring Product Hunt, GitHub, Hacker News, and other developer communities and forums, I curated a list of some of the most interesting tools (with some cool new resources sprinkled in) trending this week:
- Check out this JavaScript library, which makes it possible to control a website by simply raising your hand...
- Add music to your Python scripts with this...
- This Visual Studio Code extension...
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- Roundup Of Top Recent Tips / Tricks / From The Experts and Emerging Names: For this feature, I scour Twitter and the rest of the web looking for and summarizing the latest top dev tips/tricks from experts and emerging names in the dev space, including well-known names like Martin Fowler and Addy Osmani and more.
- Useful Lesser-Known Free Public APIs: Weekly curation of useful 10+ free APIs you can use that aren't as well-known.
- What Programming Language Founders Are Sharing: Tips, Tricks, Resources, And More. Here, we track and share the latest tips, resource recommendations, insights, updates, and so on from the creators of major programming languages, spotlighting everything from what they're reading to their tool suggestions and more.
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PostCSS 8.0, a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript, is now available. Some highlights:
- A new plugin API making it possible for all plugins to share a single scan of the CSS tree
- Node.js 6.x, 8.x, 11.x, and 13.x versions support dropped
- ES6+ sources in the npm package without Babel compilation now served
- CSS parser improvements
Node_modules size reduction- Improved source map support
For a more detailed list of changes, click here
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DEV MASTERCLASS.
Today's masterclass features Adam Smith, founder and CEO of Kite, an AI-powered coding assistant that aims to help developers code smarter and faster by automating repetitive, "tedious" parts of programming. Smith talks about how Kite helps improve developer productivity and the future of using deep learning for code.
Why Smith created Kite:
- Smith says he started it because he was frustrated by always needing to perform Google searches while coding to recall basic syntax and function calls. "Kite provides developers with just the right info at just the right time so they can stay in flow instead of having to context-switch to their web browser to sift through noisy, community-generated information," he says.
How Kite's underlying deep learning model work and how it was trained:
- Kite's models learn from...
Kite's future:
- Smith says Kite plans on expanding language support...
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- Roundup Of Top Recent Tips / Tricks / From The Experts and Emerging Names: For this feature, I scour Twitter and the rest of the web looking for and summarizing the latest top dev tips/tricks from experts and emerging names in the dev space, including well-known names like Martin Fowler and Addy Osmani and more.
- Podcast Notes: Last week, we summarized a 30-minute podcast interview TC39 delegate Hemanth HM had with Dave Herman, the founder of Mozilla Research who is also the author of the well-known book, "Effective JavaScript." Herman discusses what's next for JavaScript, the future of Mozilla after the layoffs, and more.
- What Programming Language Founders Are Sharing: Tips, Tricks, Resources, And More. Here, we track and share the latest tips, resource recommendations, insights, updates, and so on from the creators of major programming languages, spotlighting everything from what they're reading to their tool suggestions and more.
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Microsoft released a new open-source tool called Project OneFuzz, an extensible fuzz testing framework for Azure to find and fix bugs at scale. The company says it uses the framework for its Microsoft Edge, Windows, and other Microsoft products. Check it out on GitHub.
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- Some capabilities Project One Fuzz enables includes: built-in ensemble fuzzing, composable fuzzing workflows, on-demand live-debugging of found crashes, and more.
- You can share feedback on the product to fuzzing@microsoft.com
- In separate but related news, GitHub recently released a public beta of its new Microsoft Teams integration. You can either install it here, or install Github (Preview) from the Microsoft Teams app store to get started.
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A new hacking group is installing crypto-miner malware on Microsoft SQL Servers (MSSQL), warned a report by Tencent Security. The MrbMiner group has infected thousands of MSSQL databases with malware, which mines Monero cryptocurrency by abusing local server resources and generating Monero coins into the group's accounts.
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- MrbMiner launches brute-force attacks against MSSQL servers with weak passwords.
- Tencent researchers found evidence that the MrbMiner group was also targeting Linux servers and ARM-based systems.
- MSSQL is the third most used database by developers in 2020, behind only MySQL and PostgresSQL.
This story first appeared in Inside Security.
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