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How to spend less time on setup and level the playing field

Five Things I’ve Learned About Information Systems - After nearly 20 years, here are five things I’ve learned about (information) systems.

A deep look at how the Dark Sky weather app used simple but highly effective charts to report and contextualize the weather.

It’s a community effort to bring back a disappearing form factor.

Interrogating the story behind “artificial intelligence.”

With client-side compute, storage and edge computers to decentralize data, what if we abandoned the notion that applications need to keep server-side state?

Do you solve new problems the same way because it's already done? Or do you go with a new approach that offers more benefits?

Bright graphics, a touchscreen, a speech synthesizer, messaging apps, games, and educational software—no, it’s not your kid’s iPad. This is the mid-1970s, and all this was on PLA…

What to think when you realize you chose wrong.

There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is.

The concept of copyleft is compelling in a lot of ways, at least for those who want to promote software freedom in the world. Bradley Kuhn is certainly one of those people and has long been working on various aspects of copyleft licensing and compliance, along with software freedom. He came to Everything Open 2023 to talk about copyleft, some of its history—and flaws—and to look toward the future of copyleft.

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowe…

Even when analysts and data scientists overcome the hurdle of getting access to data in other parts of the business, they quickly find that they lack effective tools and hardware to leverage the data. Domino Data Lab's Kjell Carlsson discusses how to achieve AI transformation with a hybrid-cloud machine learning strategy.

There are at least two kinds of catastrophe scenarios, and both are getting more plausible

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Officials working on Login.gov, used to access dozens of government sites, worried about algorithmic bias. Their decision breached federal security rules.

Tips to help ensure software engineering teams are equipped with the knowledge and skills to use and understand observability signals effectively.

Bill Gates explains why AI is as revolutionary as personal computers, mobile phones, and the Internet, and he gives three principles for how to think about it.

28-Nov-2018: I’ve added a small update at the end on how to prevent‘handle collisions’ with a per-slot generation counter

Portland General Electric’s incident response communications with customers far exceeds that from many tech companies. How does yours stack up?

Can you trust your colleagues to write good code? Can you trust yourself?

This article is the first chapter of a concise field guide for running and supporting JVM applications, focusing on memory. The guide focuses on the most practical aspects of dealing with JVM applications, primarily server-side ones.

The Command Line Economy Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

I don’t know if the human body can change as fast as the changes being brought on by meta-sizing of everything. As someone who loves the possibilities of technology, it is inevitable we will need c…

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