My 2cents …

It took just 85 seconds for Alibaba to sell its first $1 billion, and an hour to top $10 billion

Quelle: Alibaba’s shopping event sales hit $1 billion in 85 seconds

Old, but still very good. How to explain the different tasks and jobs in the software/gaming industry by a very simple and mundane item like a door:

Link: http://www.lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/ 

There are many companies that expect programmers to get work done without access to their mind.

https://hackernoon.com/top-12-things-that-destroy-developer-productivity-2ddf0abc190

Atlantis is an open source tool designed to help teams collaborate on Terraform. It provides a workflow for reviewing and executing Terraform directly from GitHub pull requests. And they are now joining HasihCorp:  I’m Joining HashiCorp! 

Also HashiCorp will provide Terraform Collaboration for free:  Terraform Collaboration for Everyone

An 80 pages long FREE ebook from Tom McLaughlin about Serverless DevOps:

… many workers say they can’t afford to live here, or to stay in the industry. And partly as a result of those benefits, restaurateurs say they can’t afford the workers who remain.

Quelle: San Francisco Restaurants Can’t Afford Waiters. So They’re Putting Diners to Work. – The New York Times

Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time, a head teachers’ union has said.

Teachers are now installing digital devices after pupils sitting their GCSE and A-level exams complained that they were struggling to read the correct time on an analogue clock.

Quelle: Schools are removing analogue clocks from exam halls as teenagers ‘cannot tell the time’

Millions of police mugshots of innocent people cannot be deleted because it would be too expensive, a government minister has claimed – despite a High Court ruling that the practice is unlawful.

Quelle: ‘Too expensive’ to delete millions of police mugshots of innocent people, minister claims | The Independent

You need to master and internalize your tools.

When you are faced with an inherent worthy problem, don’t just go for a point solution, generalize your solution, and ultimately make it in to a tool to benefit for the future. Generalizing and constructing the tool/system pays that technical debt and gets you to have truly 10X benefit.

Acquiring new tools is the surest way to get smarter.

Quelle: Metadata: Master your tools

Quelle: Navigation, Dating, Fernsehen: Wie das Leben ohne das Internet war – und wie es heute ist | Kroker’s Look @ IT