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Mgmt has given us a lot of great features, demos, and insight into how infrastructure automation should be managed. Unfortunately it wasn’t a complete tool yet, because it was missing a crucial piece for its completeness. That all changes today with the addition of: the language . An ideal language allows us to express easily what is useful for the programming task, and at the same time makes it difficult to write what leads to inc..
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Mgmt has given us a lot of great features, demos, and insight into how infrastructure automation should be managed. Unfortunately it wasn’t a complete tool yet, because it was missing a crucial piece for its completeness. That all changes today with the addition of: the language . An ideal language allows us to express easily what is useful for the programming task, and at the same time makes it difficult to write what leads to inc..
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In Part One, we shared what we learned about chatbots in general and our users, based on our experience of asking users to interact with a chatbot that was still part (or largely) human. Now, we’re excited to pass on a few specific tips and tricks for others who are designing (or thinking about designing) bots themselves.
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Device only bugs are the worst. You need to go through a device build and reproduce/rinse/repeat. Thankfully these bugs are rare but sometimes they just hit you smack in the face. One such problem occurred when I was debugging a transition on Android related to a login form. I would move between a Form where I had the keyboard open to one where it was closed. This created a nasty effect where the keyboard folded leaving a black space and th..
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There is a long history of movement notations. Before ubiquitous video capture you had to preserve the developed choreography somehow. Now they are more of a historical curiosity, even though they do look amazing as graphical systems. Of course, you could also provide simple illustrations of positions, as was done in a book by Golena Voyachkova “Movement - the root of woman’s health and beauty” that came out in the Soviet Union in 1965. I..
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I had a very unusual setup for the network for my office. The office is situated a floor above and at the opposite end of the house to where the main router is located. A fully wired connection is not an option at the moment due to concrete floors and limited access to roof voids.
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I had a very unusual setup for the network for my office. The office is situated a floor above and at the opposite end of the house to where the main router is located. A fully wired connection is not an option at the moment due to concrete floors and limited access to roof voids.
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A fantastic allegory on the condition of power and its transcendence from humanity, to embody all of nature; twisting the beauty and…
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Deadlocks are: One session/user has acquired access to resource A (and won’t let anyone touch it), and is waiting for resource B. Another user/session has acquired access to resource B and is waiting for resource A. They’ll both wait forever. You don’t want that. Your software has now crashed. You want your software to be deadlock-free. Software composability is: You want to split your software into small independent pieces that can ..
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My first real read of a spy thriller and if I care to say, it was quite the twist in the end! A hint of realism blending between the…
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Excellently written, Ishiguro delves into the frame of what could’ve been; painting a picture of a man who led his life based on his…
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I've had quite a start to 2018, largely due to my tendency to “say yes, worry later”, which has both served me well yet sometimes makes me question my…
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Choreographers - the missing role in enterprise transformation
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www.thoughtworks.com
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8 years ago
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eng
It would be ridiculous to plan a bus trip up the side of a steep and winding mountain road, planning every detail of the trip in advance, and then demand that the driver checks with you for any deviations along the way. Every break or sharp turn to avoid plunging off a cliff would become a point needing your input. This top-down oversight might work if the bus was on a straight road with wide lanes, little traffic, and clear conditions, but..
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During a department board games night, we were playing Las Vegas when a fellow player remarked that he wondered how an AI for the game would perform. Since I had been meaning to spend some time learning to implement neural network techniques, this seemed like a great opportunity. One of the first things that came to mind was a paper from the DeepMind team on using deep neural networks to implement a variant Q-learning . The gist behind....
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This is a beautiful music video. Watch it all the way through and carefully watch what happens to some of the characters.
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This is a beautiful music video. Watch it all the way through and carefully watch what happens to some of the characters.
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At the moment I am having to get up to speed on a bunch of technologies relating to “DevOps”. This includes Kubernetes. I borrowed this book from a colleague and read it over the course of two days commuting. It provides a very good high level overview of all the main concepts of the platform.
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At the moment I am having to get up to speed on a bunch of technologies relating to “DevOps”. This includes Kubernetes. I borrowed this book from a colleague and read it over the course of two days commuting. It provides a very good high level overview of all the main concepts of the platform.
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Part of my 2018 resolutions and goals this year was to read more books. So far, I think I’ve done okay. I only finished three books in the last month. That’s actually pretty good, considering I finished only five books in 2017 .
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R&D At Curalate: A Case Study of Deep Metric Embedding
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engineering.curalate.com
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8 years ago
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eng
At Curalate, we make social sell for hundreds of the world’s largest brands and retailers. Our Fanreel product is a good example of this; it empowers brands to collect, curate, and publish social user-generated photos to their e-commerce site. A vital step in this pipeline is connecting the user generated content (UGC) to the product on our client’s web site. Automating this process requires cutting edge computer vision techniques whose i....
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Some elements on thoughts on designing / building a company’s web portal. – is dependant on the internal business process – can help cut from 30% to 60% inefficiencies – Requires good collaboration between designers and client – is a thing since the 90’s – today you can basically integrate both and ERP / Mobile App / CRM / CMS to deliver a 360 integration of the business needs and customer needs
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Some elements on thoughts on designing / building a company’s web portal. – is dependant on the internal business process – can help cut from 30% to 60% inefficiencies – Requires good collaboration between designers and client – is a thing since the 90’s – today you can basically integrate both and ERP / Mobile App / CRM / CMS to deliver a 360 integration of the business needs and customer needs
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How to e.g. change Java package name, over all revisions, while preserving Git history
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www.databasesandlife.com
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8 years ago
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Recently a customer requested that a piece of software should “move companies” from company A to company B, henceforth appearing as if it’d always been created by company B, and never appear to have been produced by company A at all. (I would surprise you if I say this is not the first time I’ve received such a request.. or not?) The simplest way would have been to rename everything in the source code, copy it to a new directory, git init..
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Everyone’s heard of the power of big data. But not every business is going to be transformed simply by being able to analyze more data. Take retail: here, the challenges aren’t around lacking data; rather, it’s about being able to access the right information at the right time that’s business critical. In this article, I’ll explore how Thoughtworks helped a leading retailer overcome its data challenges using open source technology and used ..
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Global In-House centers (GICs) are near-shore or offshore based wholly owned subsidiaries of big, old-guard, businesses, typically headquartered in the US and Europe (or the global north). They typically support knowledge-intensive processes, back office, and IT operations. The GIC phenomenon began on the basis of labor arbitrage and grew on the back of talent quality and availability, primarily in India and China but also in Romania, the P..
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Our newest team member, Charmmie, entered the tech industry from a career in high fashion. Here's her story.
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Postgres has a rich set of features, even when working everyday with it you may not discover all it has to offer. In hopes of learning some new features that I didn’t know about myself as well as seeing what small gems people found joy in I tweeted out to see what people came back from. The response was impressive, and rather than have it lost into ether of twitter I’m capturing some of the responses here along with some resources many of t....
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Postgres has a rich set of features, even when working everyday with it you may not discover all it has to offer. In hopes of learning some new features that I didn’t know about myself as well as seeing what small gems people found joy in I tweeted out to see what people came back from. The response was impressive, and rather than have it lost into ether of twitter I’m capturing some of the responses here along with some resources many of t....
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When The Game Was Ours by Jackie MacMullan, Larry Bird, and Magic Johnson
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ilearnt.com
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8 years ago
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eng
On 12th June 1984 I was on a family holiday in the US. We had spent three weeks travelling around Florida and then up the east coast to finally end up in Boston. During the day we had a guided tour of the city and we were told that it was game seven of the NBA finals that night between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers.
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When The Game Was Ours by Jackie MacMullan, Larry Bird, and Magic Johnson
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ilearnt.com
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8 years ago
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eng
On 12th June 1984 I was on a family holiday in the US. We had spent three weeks travelling around Florida and then up the east coast to finally end up in Boston. During the day we had a guided tour of the city and we were told that it was game seven of the NBA finals that night between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers.
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You can’t go to a security event nowadays without hearing at least a few speakers say the phrase "DevSecOps". The term has turned into a rallying cry for an approach that automates security throughout the development process. But in order for DevSecOps to succeed, it will first have to die.
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Every time we switch a version of xcode in the build servers things go haywire because of minor behavioral changes from Apple. Over the holidays we started a long and painful migration to xcode 9.2 which required an update to the Mac OS versions on our servers. Thankfully this wasn’t as bad as the old xcode 5 to 7.3 migration where the old build code literally stopped working…
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