- LangSec — The complexity of our computing systems (both software and hardware) have reached such a degree that data must treated as formally as code.
- Bezos’s Letter to Shareholders — as eloquent about success in high-risk tech as Warren Buffett is about success in value investing.
- Good Bad and Ugly of Working Remote After 5 Years — good advice, and some realities for homeworkers to deal with.
- Deep Learning Book — text finished, prepping print production via MIT Press. Why are you using HTML format for the drafts? This format is a sort of weak DRM required by our contract with MIT Press. It’s intended to discourage unauthorized copying/editing of the book.
"jeff bezos" entries
Four short links: 8 April 2016
Data Security, Bezos Letter, Working Remote, and Deep Learning Book
Four short links: 17 December 2014
Security Stick, Spyware Toy, Bezos Time, and Popular JavaScript
- USB Armory — another Linux-on-a-stick, but this one has some nifty dimensions and security applications in mind.
- Who’s the Boss? — The Elf on the Shelf essentially teaches the child to accept an external form of non-familial surveillance in the home when the elf becomes the source of power and judgment, based on a set of rules attributable to Santa Claus. Excellent deconstruction of ludic malware. (via Washington Post)
- Bezos on Time (Business Insider) — Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life. We all have a limited amount of time, and where you spend it and how you spend it is just an incredibly levered way to think about the world. This (he says at 9 p.m. in the office, in a different city from his family!).
- libscore — popularity of JavaScript scripts and libraries in the top million sites. But remember, just because all the cool kids do it doesn’t make right for you. (via Medium)
Four short links: 18 September 2013
No Managers, Bezos Pearls, Visualising History, and Scalable Key-Value Store
- No Managers — If we could find a way to replace the function of the managers and focus everyone on actually producing for our Students (customers) then it would actually be possible to be a #NoManager company. In my future posts I’ll explain how we’re doing this at Treehouse.
- The 20 Smartest Things Jeff Bezos Has Ever Said (Motley Fool) — I feel like the 219th smartest thing Jeff Bezos has ever said is still smarter than the smartest thing most business commentators will ever say. (He says, self-referentially) “Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.”
- Putting Time in Perspective — nifty representations of relative timescales and history. (via BoingBoing)
- Sophia — BSD-licensed small C library implementing an embeddable key-value database “for a high-load environment”.
Four short links: 5 September 2013
Bezos on Business, CS Ratios, Easier Hadoopery, and AWS CLI
- Bezos at the Post (Washington Post) — “All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s,” added Bezos.[…] “The number one rule has to be: Don’t be boring.” (via Julie Starr)
- How Carnegie-Mellon Increased Women in Computer Science to 42% — outreach, admissions based on potential not existing advantage, making CS classes practical from the start, and peer support.
- Summingbird (Github) — Twitter open-sourced library that lets you write streaming MapReduce programs that look like native Scala or Java collection transformations and execute them on a number of well-known distributed MapReduce platforms like Storm and Scalding.
- aws-cli (Github) — commandline for Amazon Web Services. (via AWS Blog)
Bezos Hopes for Longer Attention Spans
In his annual letter (PDF) to Amazon shareholders, Jeff Bezos discusses the Kindle's place in an "info-snacking" world: … networked tools such as desktop computers, laptops, cell phones and PDAs have changed us too. They've shifted us more toward information snacking, and I would argue toward shorter attention spans … If our tools make information snacking easier, we'll shift…
Roundup: Jeff Bezos and Chris Anderson at BEA, the Value of Evergreen Content, Bonus Features and Ebooks
Chris Anderson to interview Jeff Bezos at BEA; Fad-free books boost one publisher's bottom line; Bonus material coming to ebooks.