Twitter Card 6 Leading DevOps Founders Describe Their First Enterprise Win By: Timothy Chen & Amanda Robson For technical founders that lack prior exposure to the business side of things, figuring out how to s
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The surprising science of alpha males & females: The most empathetic member of the group As a teenager, I always thought that the term “alpha male” sounded cool and powerful and worthy of pursuit. What it meant to me from how mainstream culture communicated it to me was to be dominating, strong, talking over people, and generally being on top...
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Sets and Probability I’ve been a big fan of Nassim Taleb’s Incerto. He wrote a series of essays on life, where all the topics revolve around decision making under uncertainty. I wanted to dig deeper on some of the more technical concepts he alluded too, so last year I ex
A Short Guide to Statistical Rethinking² A meta post introducing my solutions to the fantastic excellent second edition of “Statistical Rethinking” by Richard McElreath, a.k.a. Statistical Rethinking². Also discusses strategies to keep up with the material, mostly meant for self-study groups. B...
Dreambuilding as a CEO When I started managing about a decade ago I was terrible for the reasons many founders are: I’m my own biggest critic. I have extremely high expectations for myself, and as a result have high expectations for others. The frustration of incompetence blind...
Pursuing Speed, Pt. 2 — 0xFF.nu In my previous entry, Pursuing Speed, I feel like even though I got my point across (I'd like to believe I did) I didn't articulate my thoughts in a sufficient manner. In this addendum, I'd like to further elaborate about the state of the web.
A Federal Blue Checkmark, and Not Learning Lessons People are wrong on the Internet every day; generally I don’t try to fuss about that too much. But when Sam Lessin, a former VP of Product Management at Facebook, publishes a wildly wrong recommendation about online identity in a credible media outlet, it...
Need business ideas? Watch out for unbundlings Society moves in waves. It always starts with lots of separate things. Then they get bundled. After a while, more and more people start to realize that the bundled solution is too bloated and not specific enough for their needs. This is when an unbundlin...
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Instacart customer records hacked, includes order history - 9to5Mac Some 278,531 Instacart customer records have reportedly been hacked, and are for sale on the dark web. The data includes names, email addresses ...
U.K. School Hires 10-Year-Old Nigerian Tech Genius As Coding Instructor 10-year-old coding and programming prodigy Emmanuella Mayaki was offered a job at the Southfield Primary School as the afterschool coding club teacher.
10 Standout GitHub Profile READMEs My good friend and colleague @bdougieyo is at Codeland today and is giving away early access to Codes...
Implemented support for user provided pixel shaders by mrange · Pull Request #7058 · microsoft/terminal Summary of the Pull Request Allows users to provide pixel shader effects or pick one from a few presets. This feature deprecates the old retro effect config option but supports the retro effect thr...
To Get More Replies, Say Less This is a story of how a software company was able to start a conversation with 8x more of their users by cutting the length of their emails by 90%. You could set up a test of this method in less than an hour.
When Hubble Stared at Nothing for 100 Hours In 1995, astronomer Bob Williams wanted to point the Hubble Space Telescope at a patch of sky filled with absolutely nothing remarkable. For 100 hours. It was a terrible idea, his colleagues told him, and a waste of valuable telescope time. People would k...
Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce Here’s what it found about meetings, culture, workdays, and engagement.
14 Best Data Science Books to Read Right Now From textbooks to introductory tomes and mass-market nonfiction.
Advice to Myself When Starting Out as a Software Developer As I look back to over a decade ago, there are a few things I wish I'd started doing sooner. Habits that could have helped made me grow faster and in a more focused way. This is the advice I'd give my younger self, who has just landed their first
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Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft - Several People Are Typing Slack Technologies, Inc., (NYSE: WORK) today announced it has filed a competition complaint against Microsoft Corporation before the European Commission.
Microservices and [Micro]services – Kalele The week began as busy as ever. And then I learned that one more task — beyond everything else on my plate — must be accomplished. Which task? The one you are reading. Why? For the record, at Uber, we’re moving many of our microservices to what @copyconst...
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The Four Quadrants of Conformism One of the most revealing ways to classify people is by the degree and aggressiveness of their conformism. Imagine a Cartesian coordinate system whose horizontal axis runs from conventional-minded on the left to independent-minded on the right, and whose ...
Who gets invited to the party? It should be obvious to everyone at this point that the tech industry has a diversity problem. Lots of folks have written about this, but…
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Waiting for Azure Durable Functions to complete The article show how an Azure Durable Function can be used to process a HTTP API request which waits for the completion result. This can be required when you have no control over the client applica…
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Considering Rust The Rust programming language has become a serious contender in the space of "systems" programming languages, and has recently been adopted by many of the tech giants for "serious" projects. In response to this, more companies are now considering whether ...
Stop throwing Exceptions! Start being Explicit Throwing exceptions is like adding landmines in your C# projects. Consumers have no idea they are there. Stop throwing exceptions and start being explicit!
Blazor EditForms, an essential tool or too much magic? Are Blazor's EditForms better than the alternative or do they do too much?
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Detect missing CancellationToken using a Roslyn Analyzer - Gérald Barré In this post, I describe how not to forget to pass a cancellation token when one is available in the context.
Top Programming Languages 2020 - IEEE Spectrum It would be an understatement to say it’s been a turbulent year since the last time IEEE Spectrum broke out the digital measuring tools to probe the relative popularity of programming languages. Yet one thing remains constant: the dominance of Python.
GraphQL on Azure: Part 2 - dotnet and App Service In my introductory post we saw that there are many different ways in which you can host a GraphQL service on Azure and today we’ll take a deeper look at one such option, Azure App Service, by building a GraphQL server using dotnet. If you’re only interest...
Fast refresh and more on Windows with 0.62 release · React Native for Windows + macOS React Native for Windows released latest stable [0.62.2](https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-windows/v/0.62.2) with Fast Refresh, RTL support, RedBox and thread safe property storage APIs.
ASP.NET Core 3, IIS and empty HTTP headers HTTP headers are key/value pairs sent at the beginning of a request or response. According to the grammar in RFC 7230, a field could have an empty value. In practice, it probably doesn’t make much sense: semantically, a header with an empty value or the a...
Ongoing Meow attack has nuked >1,000 databases without telling anyone why Ongoing attack hitting unsecured data leaves the word “meow” as its calling card.
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