Year: 2018
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🗂 Life on the Road With Susan Orlean
> How do you pass the time on a flight? > > Sometimes I’ll do tasks that are usually so tedious that I would never be able to do it at home. I’ll spend an hour going through my contact list and update it. There is a lot of stuff I do on planes that…
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🗂 Pairing at DBS
> There are various mechanisms and methods that we use to transform the skills of our incumbents. Dedicated classroom training programs is one way, but it is the least preferred option. Mostly, we believe in pairing employees who need to be trained with others who are native to those capabilities; we have found this to…
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🗂 Two-thirds of federal email is now in the cloud
> Quite a few departments have entirely moved their email to the cloud: Transportation, [HUD], Agriculture, and Veterans Affairs, as well as the [GSA], Environmental Protection Agency, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and U.S. Agency for International Development. www.fedscoop.com/two-third…
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🗂 What’s next for 2019? Influencer marketing trends
> Technology is not favoured on Instagram, accounting for just one percent of posts. A quarter of all sponsored posts cover fashion, followed by food (12 percent) and entertainment (11 percent). www.zdnet.com/article/w…
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🗂 A lot of effort went into making this effortless
> When Pablo Picasso was an old man, he was sitting in a café in Spain, doodling on a used napkin. He was nonchalant about the whole thing, drawing whatever amused him in that moment—kind of the same way teenage boys draw penises on bathroom stalls—except this was Picasso, so his bathroom-stall penises were more…
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🗂 Kubernetes, what it’s for
> The reason that Kubernetes is successful is because people look at it and they don’t understand why they need it until they see it do stuff. Then they say “Oh my God, I need that!”I can’t say how many talks and presentations I’ve done in front of skeptical audiences where they don’t understand what…
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🗂 Learning the business from The Business
> “The worse domain expert is the one whose expertise was built for the intricacies of existing systems. The best expert has had an emotional loss from losing something.” thenewstack.io/two-ways-…
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🗂 Does terrorism work? We studied 90 groups to get the answer
> We found that only six of the 45 terror groups – that’s 13.3 percent – accomplished their broader goals; the others did not… Meanwhile, among the 45 groups that chose not to use terrorism, 26 – or 57.8 percent – achieved their objectives, while 19 did not. theconversation.com/does-terr…
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🗂 What’s wrong with Huawei, and why are countries banning the Chinese telecommunications firm?
> The focus of many security agencies and countries on Huawei’s involvement in 5G systems raises the stakes, too: The next generation of wireless technology is expected to fuel even more connectivity in the “internet of things,” linking smart cars, smart homes and smart cities together. Billions of devices will be involved, all communicating with…
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🗂 Why Ketchup in Mexico Tastes So Good
> Take a look at the fare available in the typical convenience store. It should be called the corn store. www.aier.org/article/w…
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🗂 Cloud Comfort Level is Growing, Survey Finds
> Cloud Foundry Foundation reported that more than 50 percent of companies it surveyed are developing at least 60 percent of their applications on cloud platform. That total is up sharply—13 percent—from the group’s last survey released in March. Demographics: > ClearPath Strategies conducted this wave of quantitative research as part of the Global Perception…
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🗂 You wait for one IT giant to show up with its sales figures, then two come at once: Red Hat, Oracle
Still swinging: > “Jeff Bezos gave the command, ‘I want to get off the Oracle database.’ And they’ve been working on this for a few years to try to get off Oracle Database, and get on to the Amazon databases. It’s taken Amazon, which is dedicated to doing this, several years, and they are not…
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🗂 COTS kills container cornucopia
> Where we are today, we have quite a bit of package software that we customize. And so we are paying license fee for a product that we can’t even get serviced on because it’s so customized. And so we have the worst of both situations and we have to work our way out of…
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🗂 Meanwhile, does tumblr just burn cash?
> The reality is that Tumblr is almost certainly a big money loser: the app was earning about $13 million in revenue on expenses of about $25 million when Yahoo acquired the blogging platform/social network in 2013, and while that is not necessarily reflective of how much the service might generate today (although it probably…
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🗂 Projects versus products, dependency avoidance ed.
> The project/product distinction is an important one for many reasons, so let’s touch on that here for a moment so we don’t conflate or confuse the two, especially since one is more productive than the other. Projects are delivered as one big monolithic thing, meaning that coordinating all the activities within a big release…
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🗂 Synergies, industrial example
> Berg said that over the past two years, under the ownership of GE, ServiceMax has been able to get a “jump start” on two fronts. One is simply increased investment in the business, for example, on things such as R
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🗂 Congress Votes For Better Government Websites, Digital Services
Make government apps that are actually useful on purpose: “Are designed around user needs with data-driven analysis influencing management and development decisions, using qualitative and quantitative data to determine user goals, needs and behaviors, and continually test the website or digital service to ensure that user needs are addressed.” www.nextgov.com/it-modern…
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🗂 Singapore Airlines to innovate at Silicon Valley startup speed with Pivotal
“Singapore Airlines (SIA) has collaborated with Pivotal Software to deliver what the two companies describe as innovative solutions while operating with the agility of a Silicon Valley startup.” www.enterpriseinnovation.net/article/s…
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VMware uses NSX for Istio
> The microservice architecture, which breaks complex applications into sets of single-purpose networked components, can be a challenge to manage, as each microservice must be instrumented, secured and locatable in a dynamically reconfiguring network. In addition, multiple copies of microservices may be run in parallel, to meet the demands of a growing demand. Their traffic…
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Link: Where there’s cake, there’s success
I’m always trying to find a reference to Linda Rising’s cake law. Here it is! Original source: Where there’s cake, there’s success
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