Are you a happy developer? Depends on where you live Immediate Team Given the collaborative nature of software development, it’s no surprise that developers care most about the team they’re on.In Gallup’s research,social capital, as measured through the support one receives from fellow workers, is positively correlated to happiness at work. Developers say they want to be part of “passionate,” “diverse,” “cooperative,” and “supportive” teams. They expect responsibility to be shared, team members, to be open to knowledge-sharing, and product colleagues to be process-driven and focused....

A study by New York psychologist Paul Babiak appears to blur the lines a bit between those who are good leaders and those who could be classified as psychopathic. According to an article inThe Guardian, Babiak has designed a 100+ question study that can spot the difference between someone with a natural, charismatic personality and someone who feigns charm and charisma in order to get what they want. The latter, by Babiak’s definition, would classify as a psychopath....

Entrepreneurs are pirates – heading out onto the high seas of business with a swashbuckling attitude, facing high risk but also potentially huge rewards. That’s the ethos behindThe European Pirate Summit, taking place in Cologne, Germany, next month. The one-day event will celebrate true technological innovation, creativity, risk disposition and delight of entrepreneurship, leaving aside MBA-bearing copycats. Indeed, before you can even buy a ticket you need to apply, allowing a panel of eight judges to decide whether you’re enough of a ‘pirate’....

As an art student I owned my own dark room and studied the basics of photography. You needed to do that to produce a photo. Unless you understood the whole process (the relationship between ISO, aperture, shutter speed and depth and sharpness) you couldn’t do much with a camera. Now photographers just shoot in RAW format and handle the rest with the brightness and contrast controls in Photoshop. It annoys me....

Are you safe from COVID-19 if you’ve had the common cold? The case for cross-immunity For epidemiologists, the evidence of waning immunity and cross-immunity didn’t come as a surprise.A study from 1990showed that soldiers infected with one of the milder coronaviruses didn’t retain immunity for much longer than a year. Also, the boom-bust cycle that the milder coronaviruses undergo from year to yearcan be explainedby a mix of waning immunity and cross-immunity....