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Not sure about you guys, but I plan to not give my kids a phone until they reach at least the age of 14 (7 and 3 atm) Is this realistic? Any experiences?

Some month ago they removed the Speed Up option when watching YT on TV. This basically costs me hours of my life as I normally watch videos on 1.5 speed...

While playing the game of GO, I learned something related: Don't go on a hunt when your house is on fire

From the GO Proverbs: ,,A little copying is better than a little dependency." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c&t=9m28s

I think this is where the "beyond budgeting" movement comes in. See: https://bbrt.org/what-is-beyond-budgeting/

In a study that was done by the guys at Manager-Tools, they found out that a 1o1 every 4 weeks is worse than no 1o1 at all.

Google Sheets is based on canvas. Works pretty good for me.

In my experience it's important to not ask "easy" questions that can be answered by a simple yes/no. Instead of: Are you friendly to remote work? Ask: Will I be working with anyone…

There's a proverb for the Go programming language which says: ,,A little copying is better than a little dependency."

- They always told the truth (to everybody). - They knew their stuff (tech, system, user domain). - They figured out the right thing to do. - They communicated often and flawlessly…

When I visited the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, I was surprised to find out, that Porsche's first car was an Electric one :-) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_P1

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My personal story from Germany: My 14 month old son got a deaseae in the spine so he could not walk anymore. We spent 4 weeks in the hospital. 1 week until it was diagnosed in the …

My personal story from Germany: My 14 month old son got a deaseae in the spine so he could not walk anymore. We spent 4 weeks in the hospital. 1 week until it was diagnosed in the …

FireFox 61 Release Notes for Developers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/61

You also can't buy a cup of coffee with TCP/IP. But with PayPal you can. Bitcoin is not ment to be used for buying coffee. But software based on it is.

Google Cloud Platform Blog Post: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/istio-modern-ap...

Here is a very interesting video from 2013 of Martin Schoenert explaining the Google Spanner White Paper (In german though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QKewyoOSL0 Now he work…

I just saw this video from 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lfxPI5ObM Does somebody know if there's a more recent one? It looked impressive even it's age.

At the press conference after the 4th game it was mentioned that AlphaGo was not trained on professional games at all. They used strong amateur player games from public archives. I…

Red Hat announcement: http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-unveil...

You can try https://github.com/decaffeinate/decaffeinate . It's basic but gets some work done.

It seems they approached the problem with a new solution: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/sql-proxy ,,The Cloud SQL Proxy provides secure access to your Cloud SQL Second Generati…