If you excuse the meme format, the story of the disastrous launch of the video game No Man’s Sky and its tale of fame, failure, and eventual turnaround is an interesting story of shipping software. Sean Murray and the rest of Hello Games turned around what was a disastrous, incomplete launch of a game into …
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Consumer Rebellion
If you live in a modern, industrialized society, your role as an individual in the economy has likely been relegated (at some level) to that of a “consumer“ Firms and industries produce goods, and you “consume” them. There has been a trend for a while to make more and more goods subscription based, non-durable, or …
(Sobolevn) I am a mediocre developer
There is something to be said for pragmatic programming, along with putting checks in pace to make sure your systems and code are chugging along smoothly I personally know some developers who are very talented and can create wonderful pieces of software with no or little struggle. Because of these gifted individuals, our industry is …
(Medium) 36 people in container tech you should be following
medium.com/containercamp/35-people-in-container-tech-you-should-be-following via container.camp Matt’s Additions: Jérôme Petazzoni: Docker, as told from the horse’s mouth (Docker engineer and evangelist): container.training Docker Captains: (Docker community leaders, educators, and evangelists in containers and container orchestration) Of Note: Ajeet Singh Raina : collabnix.com Bret Fisher: bretfisher.com Chris Aniszczyk: (CTO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Open Source, community building, …
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Learning go(lang) is a decent idea
Open Source Licenses in the Wild
It’s amazing how much of the computing world runs on opensource software nowadays. It’s very likely that web browser and device you’re using to read this post are built on top of open source software (where anyone can look at or propose changes to the code), as well as much of the infrastructure for the …
More news (Cambridge Anylitica, voter manipulation)
Oops: theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/04/cambridge-analytica-data-leak-global-election-manipulation For those not savy, Cambridge Analytica (now renamed as Emerdata Ltd) used ill-gotten data troves, behavioral profiling, ad micro-targeting via Facebook, and Machine Learning to win elections and influence opinions and politics towards a populist, hyper-conservative slant worldwide. Medium had a fantastic article about how these systems work: While using big data in …
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(Chris Aniszcyk) Open Source Gerrymandering
I’ve written before here and there about containers, open source, and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. While my knowledge is at best surface level for many off these topics, the CNCF’s CTO Chris Aniszcyk has some interesting writings on what goes on in the development, governing, and organization of such substantial open source communities: More: …
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Maturity of the container ecosystem
Maturity of the container ecosystem Synopsis: The introduction of the software container standard, emerging reduced cost “hybrid cloud” deployments, and competition between differing open source, proprietary, and alternative tool-set makers have created a diverse and thriving ecosystem for cloud-native computing. Disclaimer: All contents wherein are the opinions of the author’s alone and carry no express …
A few words on open floor plans
Disclosure: (I’m biased against open floor plans) hbr.org/2019/11/the-truth-about-open-offices Many companies say they are going open-office to boost collaboration — but it’s actually for budgetary reasons. If that’s your company, be honest about it. Stop amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932633439 Doing npr.org/2016/05/27/479696596/planet-money-tracks-down-the-inventor-of-the-open-office VANEK SMITH: Auslander says the constant movement and the bright plastic floor made it impossible to work. AUSLANDER: …