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Over the last four years I’ve been the CTO at SketchDeck and now, as I leave and hand the reins onto the team, I wanted to reflect on the experience and what I wish I’d known at the start. Pants optional Fridays do not work, no matter how much you want it to.
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Good advice in my opinion. I would add one more for the startup crowd (not really for CTOs): choose who you partner with carefully. It's heart-wrenching watching something you've poured years of your life into crash and burn due to another's self-absorbed nihilism with nothing you can legally do about it. Use your gut, your head, background checks, and anything else available to make the best determination whether both now and in the future they'll be positive for your business
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Bill Gates warns that big tech companies aren’t worried enough about government regulation "There’s no question of ability; it’s the question of willingness."
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Google is enabling its built-in ad blocker for Chrome tomorrow (February 15th). Chrome’s ad filtering is designed to weed out some of the web’s most annoying ads, and push website owners to stop using them. And does it block Google ads?
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If you want to command a multiyear, seven-figure salary, you used to have only four career options: chief executive officer, banker, celebrity entertainer, or pro athlete. Now there’s a fifth—artificial intelligence expert. Want to command the crazy wages? Here’s what you need to bring.
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Google just announced a plan to “modernize” email with its Accelerated Mobile Pages platform, allowing “engaging, interactive, and actionable email experiences.” "Facebook is doing it, so Google has to."
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Or not![^] (Article on Charter not spending more money as direct result of Net Neutrality repeal.)
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The claims in this article by both sides are absurd and show a profound ignorance of the issues involved. (Recently, an acquaintance was complaining about the net neutrality thing, yet every one of his complaints had absolutely nothing to do with what the FCC did and then undid, let alone what they could have done. Many similar claims are in the article and comment section.)
Note: Once again, write your senator or congressman. I did. One senator dismissed me (no big surprise), the other gave one of the most cogent explanations of what the FCC did and the proper way to correct the issue. I was quite impressed with an unknown member of a politician's staff.
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Joe Woodbury wrote: one of the most cogent explanations of what the FCC did and the proper way to correct the issue Do share!
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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In [very] short; the FCC was never given the legal authority to regulate the internet. What they did was unilaterally reclassify the internet as a utility under Title II. The problem is that with this reclassification, the FCC then has the ability to do all sorts of other regulatory things, like set rates, require government permission for any expansion of service and, arguably, censorship of content they didn't like. In other words, they could pretty much do anything they wanted including, believe or not, requiring certain providers be given priority.
The solution is for Congress to pass a law with a "bright line" net neutrality provision while removing its Title II [re]classification, which is regulatory hell. Seriously, that's about it (though some do argue that the FTC should be granted some anti-trust enforcement vis-a-vis the internet.)
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yeah, already knew all that and the solution. But mostly because I've been paying attention and reading along the way. It is definitely is nice to have a lawmaker understand an issue so succinctly.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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People really do not understand the meaning of the word inventor any more do they?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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We’ve seen Boston Dynamics robots open doors before, but this egress is different. Hold the door, holdthedoor, holdor ...
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Wow. Millions of dollars in R & D, coding, testing, producing AI algorithms. Ta da we've created the smart door stop which could be done with a piece of angled scrap wood for like 50 cents, but this is more impressive.
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Pointlessly experimenting on dead frogs got us batteries.
Experimenting on fungi got us our first antibiotic.
Experimenting with explosives and levers got us cars, airplanes and ships with engines.
All those experiments requested countless hours and funding. Don't bash what you still do not understand.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Introducing our next presenter of "Connections" (it's dated, especially the hideous clothing styles, but still fascinating.)
Mockery can be entertaining, but you never know if or what small piece of some trivial, or even dumb invention, will be pivotal in a significant development. (It might not even be something that works, but something that doesn't and why it doesn't work may end up being really important.)
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Amazon has started designing a custom artificial intelligence chip that would power future Echo devices and improve the quality and response time of its Alexa voice assistant Echo devices with custom onboard AI chips would be faster and more efficient than relying solely on the cloud
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This is the story of how I trained a simple neural network to solve a well-defined yet novel challenge in a real iOS app. Not a short read. Better grab a coffee first.
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A security flaw in Skype's updater process can allow an attacker to gain system-level privileges to a vulnerable computer. The bug grants a low-level user access to every corner of the operating system.
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Aren't they scheduled for a complete rewrite? It's been a few months since the last one.
Sorry, back to my cave time off.
TTFN - Kent
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Yes. The user interface is too complex, and there are too many options.
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The company is shaking up its development program to focus more on key features and push back others to the following year. "Apple software has become prone to bugs and underdeveloped features." Get out of town.
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"Instead of keeping engineers on a relentless annual schedule and cramming features into a single update" they will keep engineers on a relentless two-year schedule while cramming features into two updates!
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Does Apple (and Microsoft, and Oracle, etc.) not use TDD? If they do--and I bet they do--isn't that a testament to the fact that TDD is just another trend with hype that doesn't deliver on its promise?
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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