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IT shops may be looking for a CentOS replacement in advance of its support sunsetting. Here are some alternative free Linux distros.

Learn about intrinsic motivation and how it can be applied to aspects of your life to effectively improve performance and motivation.

Teachers want students to learn for learning's sake, not because they've been promised a reward. Here's how to instill intrinsic motivation in students.

I am not an asset. I am not a human resource. I am not overhead. I am not an expense. I am not a cost center. Training me is not an expense. I do not belong on the liability side of the balance sheet. I am Tom. And Tom says, words matter, clean up your language, starting Monday.— Tom Peters (@tom_peters) April 17, 2021

Why do you do the things you do? If it is for some internal reason, you are intrinsically motivated. Explore how this can be extremely rewarding.

A fairly decent argument is made in this video that Cobra looks more like Amazon, or any tech unicorn seems pretty accurate. Free snacks, entitled employees, and an awesome cafeteria go with Elon a…

For many years I've tried to point out that no one seems to have a very good conceptual framework for "privacy." Many...

Governments need to give Americans an off-ramp to the post-pandemic world. Ending outdoor mask requirements would be a good place to start.

I recently saw an interesting die photo of an unknown chip on Twitter , so I did some analysis of it. Looking at the circuitry inside, the...

Hey, remember that iPhone 5C that the U.S. government barely tried to crack before demanding Apple give them a back door, only to find a way in just one day before a related court hearing was to begin? It turns out that the company that they paid to crack it was not one of the […]

My experiences after ditching social media for several months. Here's what I miss and what I really, really don't.

I have another birthday, and another bunch of unsolicited advice.    • That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult — if you don’t lose it. • If you have any doubt at all

In this article we will install the Kubernetes Package Manager “helm” and deploy a Statefulset on to a Kubernetes cluster . First we will…

Tinkerbell is beginning to live up to its promise to provision bare metal servers and other devices for cloud native environments. After becoming a (CNCF) Sandbox project in November, Tinkerbell, has been updated with a number of new beta features for under an Apache 2.0 license — this month. The idea is to help DevOps…

With the goal of fostering more productive discussions on this topic (and understanding which types of multicloud capabilities are worth pursuing), this series continues with a look at multicloud through the lens of workflow portability. Workflow Portability Multicloud workflow portability means having development and operations workflows that are compatible across multiple IT environments — whether…

Search engines have become essential components for almost every user-facing application. For retailers, search results and recommendations directly drive revenue — since they enable users to find products fast, while offering businesses opportunities to better understand each customer and deepen engagement. Being able to tailor experiences unique to a user’s search preferences, in order to…

Dolt is a tool built for collaboration and data distribution, it's Git for Data. Git versions files, Dolt versions tables. We've built Dolt…

From disturbing the gut microbiome to lingering in the brain, there are many ways the coronavirus might cause lasting symptoms.

Researchers say giant landmasses form at regular intervals in predictable locations

In this era of cloud computing, many companies are adopting immutable infrastructure to simplify configuration management and reliability…

Creating a sample AMI using Hashicorp Packer. Contribute to MiteshSharma/PackerAmi development by creating an account on GitHub.

The shell Packer provisioner provisions machines built by Packer using shell scripts. Shell provisioning is the easiest way to get software installed and configured on a machine.

Nothing is ever finished or perfect, and HTTP is no exception.HTTP SEARCH is a new HTTP method, for safe requests that include a request…

Taylor Swift, like Dave Chappelle, is leveraging the power of the Internet to take control of their art.

Badges have been around since the beginning of Stack Overflow. But what badges do we have, and how did they come about in the first place?