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Reclaiming Focus: The Lost Art of Downtime
Modern software builds traded the forced tea time of Borland Turbo C for complex YAML pipelines and noisy distributed failures. To avoid burnout and logic errors, you must reclaim your time to think. Build a fake commute, step away from the screen, and go make a proper cup of tea.
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Those blue signs are cheaper than you think
Not nearly as expensive as you would think to rent space on this most valuable of places on the highway.
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Verizon * (Yahoo + AOL) = Oath
Verizon has completed its long awaited purchase of Yahoo, for only $4.48B – cheap for what was one of the Internet’s cornerstone properties. Mayer, is out, but she can take some consolation with her $23M package.
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Tesla to charge cars exclusively from the sun
Elon Musk has thrown down the nay-sayers and stated that all supercharger stations will eventually be off-the-grid. Given their recent acquisition of Solar City this was always on the cards.
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What Ello/Theranos can teach – HBR
Good article from Harvard Business Review on the hubris of courting too much media attention too early on in a startup.
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Tim Armstrong on being a CEO
30 min interview with Tim on how he stepped up to the challenge of taking over as CEO of AOL.
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Get Android on Windows 10
Digital Trends has a comprehensive guide on the various emulators and distributions that will let you run Android Apps on your Windows desktop, including playing nice with Windows Apps.
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Moved from RackSpace to FastMail
Moving from RackSpace to FastMail as I trial a new email service provider with more features and security.
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Heating the home with heat from servers
Placing cloud servers in individual homes, and turning them into heating systems. Your house will serve as a data center for companies that depend on cloud computing
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US military data found unprotected on Amazon S3
This is definitely one of those situations where someone forgot to throw the switch and make an Amazon S3 bucket secure. Easy done, but grave consequences.
the leg-end that is, Alan Williamson.
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