Weekly Roundup: Top 5 Career and Tech Hiring Tips -- October 17, 2014

Welcome to CyberCoders' Weekly Roundup! Every week, we handpick the top five stories from around the web that offer great insight into hiring in the tech industry. 

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1. Hands-- and Eyes--On with the New iPads and the iMac's Big 5k Display [Ars Technica]

The newest Apple iPad Air 2 is impressively thin and light. Its screen offers a more gorgeous color and contrast.

Aside from TouchID, the stuff you get this year that you couldn’t get last year are the new gold model, and the price reductions for the 64GB and 128GB models ($499 and $599, respectively).

2. High Tech Pay Gap: Minorities Earn Less in Skilled Jobs [USA Today]

It's no secret that the high tech industry suffers from a lack of diversity. Now, studies show that minorities are not getting equal pay for equal work.

The American Institute for Economic Research found that Hispanics earn $16,353 a year less on average than their colleagues who are not Hispanic in high-skilled tech positions, like computer programmers and software developers.

Asians make $8,146 less than whites.

This article highlights unconscious bias as the culprit of this racial inequality in the tech industry.

3. 4 People Who Go to Extremes for their Dream Jobs [Fast Company]

This article gets insight from folks who've followed their dream job--even to the depths of danger. Cave diving or eating potentially poisonous food as a wild tour guide are just a couple of  extreme dream jobs.

4. Study: Diverse Steams are More Successful, but Less Happy [Inc.]

A new MIT study found that even though diverse teams (mixed gender) produce more innovative and lucrative products, people would be happier to work with similar people.

The research analyzed eight years of data out of a single, large professional services firm that included both single gender and mixed gender teams.

"A baseball team entirely composed of catchers could have high esprit de corps," MIT economist and co-author of the study Sara Ellison offered as an analogy, "but it would not perform very well on the field."

5. Yet Another Developer Leaves Their Home Following Harassment [Yahoo!]

Brianna Wu is the head of development at Giant Spacekat, and recently released Revolution 60, an iOS game that spotlights four women.

She's also the target of death threats on Twitter, including disclosure of her home address. It's an ongoing issue for women game development.

"This is, unfortunately, not a new development in the past few weeks. Both Depression Questdesigner Zoe Quinn and media critic Anita Sarkeesian experienced online attacks that followed depressingly similar patterns with equivalent results."

Wu's response via Tweet: "Announcement: I AM NOT GOING ANYWHERE. I am going to keep making games. And I will keep speaking up for women in gamedev."