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Margaret Hamilton: Pioneer Software Engineer

July 15, 2019July 22, 2019 No Comments

Enjoyable, if brief, interview with Margaret Hamilton, who lead the software team for the Apollo moonshots. I can’t help but notice how few men are ever asked how their lives as parents ever collides with their work. Q: Did your life as a software engineer and a mother ever collide? A: Often in the evening or […]

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Big Business Health Technology

Letting your mind breathe

June 18, 2019June 19, 2019 No Comments

Modern life is making us anxious: Keeping calm in modern life is difficult and even our sleep is under threat from a surprising source. “I love watching Netflix and streaming TV shows, but that’s having an impact on our sleep. Recently the head of Netflix said that his main competitor isn’t another TV company – […]

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Politics Technology

Legitimizing

December 13, 2016 No Comments

Very good point here: When I could get no really substantive on-the-record statements from the tech leaders, I pinged investor Chris Sacca, because I knew he would not let me down. “It’s funny, in every tech deal I’ve ever done, the photo op comes after you’ve signed the papers,” he said. “If Trump publicly commits […]

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Equality Technology

Hiring diverse teams

December 2, 2016December 2, 2016 No Comments

Jonathan Nightingale on hiring: In tech, a common pattern is for hiring managers to say “I don’t care who you are, just show me your hobby projects on github, or your think-pieces on medium” — but a bit of reflection is all it takes to realize that screening based on free-time pursuits gets you more affluent white […]

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Society Technology

Time not well spent

October 11, 2016 No Comments

Interesting: Addicted to Your iPhone? You’re Not Alone – The Atlantic Harris is the closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience. As the co‑founder of Time Well Spent, an advocacy group, he is trying to bring moral integrity to software design: essentially, to persuade the tech world to help us disengage more easily from its […]

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Computer Science Humour

February 14, 2016 No Comments

Via http://facebook.com/aliettedebodard

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Big Business Internets Technology

Beware the Internet of Things: Nest Thermostat Glitch Leaves Users in the Cold

January 15, 2016 No Comments

So, a glitch in a software update to the Nest left users quite literally cold as their nest devices stopped working. Very irritating, and the nine-step, time consuming fix sounds quite awkward to say the least. But there’s more: Making matters worse is the lack of recourse. Buried deep in Nest’s 8,000-word service agreement is […]

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Computer Science Technology

The Algorithmic Sea

August 28, 2015August 28, 2015 No Comments

Amazing: http://kottke.org/15/03/the-algorithmic-sea

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Bits & Bobs History Technology

The New Old

August 26, 2015August 26, 2015 No Comments

Found these while poking around the warehouse earlier. Windows 95 installer, all thirteen disks! Twenty years young.

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Computing Technology

Tux at 24

August 25, 2015 No Comments

“Happy Birthday, Linux!”, announced slashdot today. I’ve been a user for a long time, my first direct experience of Linux was with a tiny district that shipped on four floppy disks, which even back in 1996 (I think, maybe 1997) was tight. I still remember being amazed that it could read from floppy while doing […]

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Margaret Hamilton: Pioneer Software Engineer

Letting your mind breathe

Legitimizing

Hiring diverse teams

Time not well spent

Beware the Internet of Things: Nest Thermostat Glitch Leaves Users in the Cold

The Algorithmic Sea

The New Old

Tux at 24

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