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I once had a great presentation about this very topic! The presenter gave us both the Tufte book and a detailed handout. The idea is that you use the PowerPoint like you would an o…

Here’s a great explainer about what Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature measures: https://youtu.be/S7X4DxjO0Qk

It's not really clear if this advice is for within the enterprise (a company that maintains so many systems they spend millions to integrate them) or at the edge (a company that ne…

Another classic Seinfeld plot becomes irrelevant.

Minor nitpick: sign in with Google and Facebook don’t use SAML, they use OAuth and OpenID Connect. Leading with those as an example undermines the authors later points.

Very cool idea. I recently gave one pass at a Jira CSV import and went with the API instead. Excel is the ultimate no-code solution.

Mythical Man-Month isn't trying to say "surgical teams work well - let's apply that approach to software". Instead, it's an analogy to explore Fred Brook's thoughts on 10x programm…

If I were to invest $100 in some allocation of Coinbase stock and Bitcoin - what should the ratio be?

I think you're pointing out the double-edged sword that is Docker; it's very easy to run and experiment with new technologies, even ones you might not be organizationally ready for…

Healthcare has long been the same way, HL7 was paywalled ($1000+/yr membership until 2012).X12 is still in the thousands for membership.

I find it frustrating that Merlin and eBird don't integrate as well as one would expect

The industry more broadly is moving towards OAuth. https://bluebutton.cms.gov/

I wonder how long it will take the average Bay Area commuter to find an adversarial driving pattern for this.

Where do you see that coming? If anything we will see HIPAA stay as-is and get things like CCPA to deal with as well.

Possibly one of the best Nova titles ever - "Rat Attack" follows this phenomenon: https://www.pbs.org/video/nova-rat-attack/

"I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras." - Alan Kay With Alan Kay putting it i…

I love small concise mini-syllabi’s like this. Just give me the big papers and set some context.

I did a trial in 2018 and liked the product a lot. There were some simple metrics like "does a developer commit code every business day" and "how long do your PRs sit waiting for r…

This is a great sentence: > We are doing this to situate product development closer to our customers, improve our ability to tap the 99.74% of talented engineers living outside the…

I'll peek at people playing star citizen on Twitch from time to time. It seems like the game crashes a lot, and it takes forever to get into actual action (like getting your ship a…