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I was just asked to give some insight on metrics and came up with these four observations. I thought I'd share them here. 1. The key thing to realize is

The expectations for our work have matured significantly over the last couple of decades. If this overwhelms those of us who build the web day in and day out, imagine how our clients must feel. And…

Visiting China and speaking in front on 40.000 people in Mandarin was one of my biggest challenges. It left me wanting to do more in a slow and right way.

Mediocrity is contagious. The standards you set for yourself, whether at work or in your friendships or when alone with your thoughts, can be felt by

In an environment where everybody can pick up everybody's tools, we're all weirdly empowered now.

Stumbled upon this really nice image of a WiFi cluster built from 5 Intel Edisons. Note the five strands of red cable but only the one thicker black cable attached to the board/s – read more …

Encyclopedia Britannica made this 10 minute video about how a country slides into despotism.

Machine learning to generate attack data and improve security analytics.

A new study looks at our comfort in being around other people as a byproduct of evolution.

Hearing something special from a designer I recently interviewed Before we make the final call on hiring a designer, we always give them a sample one-week project to do for us (we pay them $1500 fo…

The rants and raves of Simon Wardley on Evolution, Technology, Economics and Business

A few years ago, Microsoft launched a Office 365 campaign with the slogan of #GetItDone. The basic premise was fitting more work into more places of your life. Well, not so much just fitting as sho…

The video, used by the Joint Special Operations University, states that megacities will be breeding grounds for “adversaries and hybrid threats,” and that the U.S. Army is unprepared.

How to turn a hard copy book into a polished, web-based version of itself.

Sergey Ignatchenko continues his excellent book series with a new chapter on databases. This ...

On the episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Dell EMC CTO Idit Levine, an EMC chief technology officer at the cloud management division and office of the CTO, discussed how unikernels are poised to offer all of the developer flexibility afforded to containers, while striving for better security and integrations with many of today’s top container…

A conference in London this week brings together military and intelligence officials hoping to use social media as a tool in the armed forces.

How good or bad something is depends on what you compare against.

The Mercury logic programming system. Contribute to Mercury-Language/mercury development by creating an account on GitHub.