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In Praise of the Junior Developer
In Praise of the Junior Developer
"She's a project," my boss said to me. "She's green, and even though she's been working here for several months, you should consider her like a brand new college graduate. She'll need a lot of oversight, a lot of hand-holding and you'll still be expected to finish
·exceptionnotfound.net·
In Praise of the Junior Developer
Never Take Two Chronometers to Sea « ipSpace.net by @ioshints
Never Take Two Chronometers to Sea « ipSpace.net by @ioshints
One of the quotes I found in the Mythical Man-Month came from the pre-GPS days: “never go to sea with two chronometers, take one or three”, and it’s amazing the networking industry (and a few others) never got the message.
·blog.ipspace.net·
Never Take Two Chronometers to Sea « ipSpace.net by @ioshints
Where the Cloud Won’t Work: Machine Learning for the Industrial Internet of Things - The New Stack
Where the Cloud Won’t Work: Machine Learning for the Industrial Internet of Things - The New Stack
A quiet race is going on to set up the infrastructure needed for the industrial Internet of Things (IoT). It is generally agreed that the cloud model won’t work to manage sensor data in real time, so instead hardware and network providers are rushing to evolve their technologies and sign up industrial customers to pilot…
·thenewstack.io·
Where the Cloud Won’t Work: Machine Learning for the Industrial Internet of Things - The New Stack
Multi-Threaded Programming By Hand Versus OpenMP
Multi-Threaded Programming By Hand Versus OpenMP
For a long time now, researchers have been working on automating the process of breaking up otherwise single-threaded code to run on multiple processors
·nextplatform.com·
Multi-Threaded Programming By Hand Versus OpenMP
Phantom Coordinates Security Software for Playbook Automation - The New Stack
Phantom Coordinates Security Software for Playbook Automation - The New Stack
Security startup Phantom tackles the notorious interoperability challenges enterprises face as they add ever more security technologies to their arsenals. The company likes to point to a Cisco report that found the average enterprise uses 56 different security products. “None of it works together. And large companies expand through acquisitions,” said CP Morey, Phantom’s vice…
·thenewstack.io·
Phantom Coordinates Security Software for Playbook Automation - The New Stack
Defql: SQL Queries as Elixir Functions
Defql: SQL Queries as Elixir Functions
Elixir world is functional. There are no objects or instances at all. In this case, I asked myself a…
·blog.fazibear.me·
Defql: SQL Queries as Elixir Functions
Project Habbakuk: Britain's Secret Ice "Bergship" Aircraft Carrier Project - 99% Invisible
Project Habbakuk: Britain's Secret Ice "Bergship" Aircraft Carrier Project - 99% Invisible
In the early 1940s, German submarines (U-Boats) were wreaking havoc on Allied forces in the Atlantic Ocean, sinking ships, and threatening to turn the tide of the war. What the Allies of WWII needed was something literally too big to fail. And one inventor working for the British Combined Operations Headquarters (a department of the
·99percentinvisible.org·
Project Habbakuk: Britain's Secret Ice "Bergship" Aircraft Carrier Project - 99% Invisible
Assigning blame to unsafe code
Assigning blame to unsafe code
While I was at POPL the last few days, I was reminded of an idea regarding how to bring more struture to the unsafe code guidelines process that I’ve been ki...
·smallcultfollowing.com·
Assigning blame to unsafe code
Gaming the System…and Winning · An A List Apart Article
Gaming the System…and Winning · An A List Apart Article
Go ahead. Game it up. Set that corporate website abuzz with rewards and badges and magic codes. Just don’t be surprised, says user interface specialist Graham Herrli, when the site’s primary users …
·alistapart.com·
Gaming the System…and Winning · An A List Apart Article
jwz: There is nothing more American than punching Nazis.
jwz: There is nothing more American than punching Nazis.
The "alt right" are Nazis: However, for too long now, when we consider questions of race, especially questions concerning the Black race, we have been framing things in completely the wrong way. Instead of asking how we can make reparations for slavery, colonialism, and Apartheid or how we can equalize academic scores and incomes, we should instead be asking questions like, "Does human ...
·jwz.org·
jwz: There is nothing more American than punching Nazis.