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Go Libraries, Salary Transparency, Printed Houses, and IoT Alliance
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DropBox Opensources Go Libraries — including memcache and a general abstraction for caching layers.
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Transparency with Salaries (NPR) — Atkison has meetings like this all the time. He says it gives him a chance to explain why some employees make more than others — and to explain to employees how they can make more. For a lot of employees, knowing what everyone makes is less exciting than it seems. By moving from negotiation to clear expectations of salary levels, bumps, etc., I can also see it helping the company understand what it values.
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Printing Buildings from Recycled Materials (ComputerWorld) — The printers, supplied by WinSun Decoration Design Engineering, are 20 feet tall, 33 feet wide and 132 feet long. Like their desktop counterparts, the construction-grade WinSun 3D printers use a fused deposition modeling (FDM) technology to deposit materials one layer at a time in a process that’s similar to squeezing frosting from a pastry bag. 10 single-room buildings in a day. (via Slashdot)
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Microsoft Joins Internet-of-Things Alliance (Computerworld) — more vendors joining AllSeen Alliance to agree on the open comms standards for IoT apps and devices. Google/Nest notable by their absence.
Robot Legs, CS in Classrooms, Go Robotics, and Game Programming
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Bionic Legs Let Patients Walk Again — The Ekso costs about $100,000 and was purchased with a grant from Baptist Health Foundation. Chara Rodriguez, a physical therapist and neurologic clinical specialist at University Health System, called the machine “the Maserati of the rehab world.” (via Robot Economics)
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Roundup of CS in Education Systems (Economist) — Above all, the new subject will require teachers who know what they are doing. Only a few places take this seriously: Israel has about 1,000 trained computer-science teachers, and Bavaria more than 700. Mathematics and computer-science graduates generally choose more lucrative trades; the humanities and social-science graduates who will find themselves teaching coding will need plenty of support.
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gobot — Go framework for hardware and robotics comms, with Arduino, Sphero, (and more) backends.
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Game Programming Patterns — free online book with programming patterns for game developers.
Better Fonts, Speaking Javascript, Arduinos & Phones, and Averaging Streams in Go
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brick — uncompressed versions of popular web fonts. The difference between compressed and uncompressed is noticeable.
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Speaking Javascript — free online version of the new O’Reilly book by Axel Rauschmayer.
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micio.js — clever hack to communicate between Arduino and mobile phones via the microphone jack.
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Exponentially Weighted Moving Averages for Go — Go implementation of algorithm useful for dealing with streams of data.
PHP++, Planning, BitCoin, and Concurrency
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Hack — PHP with types, generics, collections, lambdas. From Facebook.
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Solve Hard Things Early — Build great habits around communication and decision-making when everyone still knows each other well.
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Marginally Useful (Paul Ford) — The last two decades have suggested a post-scarcity economy, where infinite copies of attractive digital things have a price approaching $0. Maybe that was merely a passing moment that we will look back upon with wonder once limited coins enforce scarcity—once the owner of a piece of digital art can look upon it with satisfaction and know with total, cryptographic certainty that because he paid for it, it belongs to him and no one else.
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Go Pipelines and Cancellation — Go’s fascinating me, as an example of a language designed for concurrency and syntactic familiarity.