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SCIP Berkeley Style, Regular Failures, Web Material Design, and Javascript Breakouts
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CS 61AS — Berkeley self-directed Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs course.
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Harbingers of Failure (PDF) — We show that some customers, whom we call ‘Harbingers’ of failure, systematically purchase new products that flop. Their early adoption of a new product is a strong signal that a product will fail – the more they buy, the less likely the product will succeed. Firms can identify these customers either through past purchases of new products that failed, or through past purchases of existing products that few other customers purchase.
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Google Material Design Lite — A library of Material Design components in CSS, JS, and HTML.
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Breakouts — various implementations of the classic game Breakout in numerous different [Javascript] engines.
iBeacon at Scale, Product Teams, Progress Bars, and Distributed Fallacies
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The Realities of Installing iBeacon at Scale (Brooklyn Museum) — death by a thousand mundane little real-world pains.
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How We Build Software (Intercom) — rare to see descriptions of how to build product teams.
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MProgress.js — Material Design progress bars for the web.
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Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing — your network is unreliable, slow, congested, insecure, changing, expensive, and inconsistent. And that’s on a good day.
Material Design Inspiration, Event Processing, Launch Infrastructure, Remote Work
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Material Up — material design inspiration. MD is a physics engine for UI.
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Flafka (Cloudera) — Flume plus Kafka, offers sub-second-latency event processing without the need for dedicated infrastructure. (via Abishek Tiwari)
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terraform.io — open source package providing a common configuration to launch infrastructure, from physical and virtual servers to email and DNS providers.
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Remote Work: An Engineering Leader’s Perspective — Even proponents of remote work seem to think that you should either have a distributed team from the get go, or stick to a traditional on-site team. Our experience shows that this is incorrect…
Metastable Failures, Static Python Analysis, Material Desktop, and AWS Scale Numbers
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Metastable Failure State (Facebook) — very nice story about working together to discover the cause of one of those persistently weird problems.
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Bandit — static security analysis of Python code.
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Quantum OS — Linux desktop based on Google’s Material Design. UI guidelines fascinate me: users love consistency, designers and brands hate that everything works the same.
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Inside AWS — Every day, AWS installs enough server infrastructure to host the entire Amazon e-tailing business from back in 2004, when Amazon the retailer was one-tenth its current size at $7 billion in annual revenue. “What has changed in the last year,” Hamilton asked rhetorically, and then quipped: “We have done it 365 more times.” That is another way of saying that in the past year AWS has added enough capacity to support a $2.55 trillion online retailing operation, should one ever be allowed to exist.
Material Design, GitHub Communication, Priority Queues, and DevOps Learnings
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Materialize — another web implementation of Material Design.
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Communicating at Github — interesting take on making visible and optimising for the conversations and decisions that form culture but are otherwise invisible.
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MultiQueues — an approach for parallel access to priority queues.
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Devops Learnings — We view DevOps as the missing components of agile – the enabler for getting it out of the door and closing the loop between software engineer and customer.
Material Design, Inflatable Robots, Printable Awesome, and Graph Modelling
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CSS and React to Implement Material Design — as I said earlier, it will be interesting to see if Material Design becomes a common UI style for the web.
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Current State of Inflatable Robots — I’d missed the amazing steps forward in control that were made in pneumatic robots. Check out the OtherLab tentacle!
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Dinosaur Skull Showerhead — 3D-printable add-on to your shower. (via Archie McPhee)
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Data Modelling in Graph Databases — how to build the graph structure by working back from the questions you’ll ask of it.
Data Delusions, OS Robotics, Insecure Crypto, and Free Icons
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The Delusions of Big Data (IEEE) — When you have large amounts of data, your appetite for hypotheses tends to get even larger. And if it’s growing faster than the statistical strength of the data, then many of your inferences are likely to be false. They are likely to be white noise.
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ROSCON 2014 — slides and videos of talks from Chicago open source robotics conference.
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Making Sure Crypto Stays Insecure (PDF) — Daniel J. Bernstein talk: This talk is actually a thought experiment: how could an attacker manipulate the ecosystem for insecurity?
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Material Design Icons — Google’s CC-licensed (attribution, sharealike) collection of sweet, straightforward icons.
Robot Learning, Internet Confidentiality, Bootstrap Material Design, and Bitcoin Adoption
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Robotics Has Too Many Dreamers, Needs More Practical People (IEEE) — Grishin said that while looking for business opportunities, he saw too may entrepreneurs proposing cool new robots and concepts but with no business cases to support them. The robotics industry, he added, needs more startups to fail to allow entrepreneurs to learn from past mistakes and come up with more enduring plans. A reminder that first to found rarely correlates to biggest exit.
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Fixing the Internet for Confidentiality and Security (Mark Shuttleworth) — Every society, even today’s modern Western society, is prone to abusive governance. We should fear our own darknesses more than we fear others. I like the frame of “confidentiality” vs “privacy”.
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Bootstrap Material Design — a material design theme for Bootstrap. Material design (Google’s new design metaphor/language for interactive UIs) is important, to mobile and web what HIG was to MacOS, and it specifically tackles the noisy surprises that are app and web interfaces today.
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Simon Wardley on Bitcoin — Why I think US will adopt bitcoin … it is currently backed by $284m in venture capital, you’re going to get it whether you like it or not.
Material Design, Stewart's Slack, Sketching in Javascript, and Neural Networks and Deep Learning
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Material Design in the Google I/O App (Medium) — steps through design thinking as they put Google’s new design metaphor in place. I’ve been chewing on material design. It brings an internal consistency and logic to the Android world that Apple’s iOS and OS X visual worlds have been losing over the years. How long until web users expect this consistency too?
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Stewart and Slack (Wired) — profile of Foo Stewart Butterfield and his shiny Slack startup.
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p5js — a new Processing-inspired code-as-sketching in Javascript. Using the original metaphor of a software sketchbook, p5.js has a full set of drawing functionality. However, you’re not limited to your drawing canvas, you can think of your whole browser page as your sketch!
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Neural Networks and Deep Learning — a free online book to teach you … well, neural networks and deep learning.