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Nov 12 2018

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

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


Nov 1 2018

“THE DOOR PROBLEM”

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/ 


Oct 28 2018

Top 12 Things That Destroy Developer Productivity

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


Oct 24 2018

Atlantis Team Joins HashiCorp / Free Collaboration for Terraform

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

 


Oct 23 2018

Serverless DevOps – What do we do when the server goes away?

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

 


Jun 26 2018

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

… 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


Apr 27 2018

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

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’


Apr 20 2018

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

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


Mar 28 2018

Metadata: Master your tools

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


Mar 28 2018

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

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