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A few weeks ago, our team started working at the “pace of innovation”, or so I’ve called it. We hit a certain cadence that allowed us to innovate -- to create and deliver new ideas into production. How’d we do it? We threw out routine process and structure and started embodying certain patterns, the following of which I believe were key to let us innovate, and perhaps even more importantly, achieve the pace of innovation.
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RDTSC doesn't actually measure the number of clock cycles elapsed
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www.forwardscattering.org
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12 years ago
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The RDTSC instruction on x86 CPUs is supposed to read a counter that is incremented (by one) every clock cycle. However, it doesn't actually do this. Instead, the counter increases at a fixed frequency, independent of the actual clock speed of your CPU, which varies based on load, temperature etc.. This does not seem to be documented anywhere. I found this out the hard way, after measuring the frequency of rdtsc myself, and notic....
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Since Apple began requiring that developers submitting applications to the Mac App Store sandbox their products, it has remained a somewhat controversial decision. Two years after the rule went in to effect, it continues to preclude a number of great apps from sharing in the spotlight Apple so generously — and to such great effect — sheds on its platform’s developers by featuring their creations on the store’s front page. Nevertheless, by a..
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Josh Gross and Matthew Ström are former freelancers that banded together to create Planetary, a studio empowering companies through better design.
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Across all our offices, we engage and support initiatives that empower women and remove gender stereotypes, while encouraging more women to pursue a career in technology. One such program is the Project Program My Future, in which we are partners with IFRN.
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The drunken scribblings of a mad man. Possibly some kind of ancient cuneiform. A random page out of the Middle Earth phone directory. Whatever it was, it was the server password, not that it matters now: the little Post-It note reminder had long since thrown itself into the waste paper bin. Somewhere a landfill sat, knowing our password and chuckling away at our misfortune. It seems that our hero is in a bit of trouble, if only slightly sel..
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It has been quite a while since I posted one of these — more than a month, in fact: the last came out at the beginning of May . Today, I finally have cause to bring this series back. Finally — far too long has passed during which I had no cause to sit down and revel in the simple beauty of nature and its rustic inhabitants. Permalink.
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ShipIt - 24-hour hackathon for Millennium+ Platform Dev
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engineering.cerner.com
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12 years ago
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eng
At the end of March, some of our teams held their first 24-hour hackathon, titled ShipIt: Millennium+ Services FedEx Day. We had 41 participants, in 15 teams working on 15 unique projects. The idea was inspired by several teams spending a few hours every so often to work on different projects. After reading about Atlassian’s hack days, we decided to hold one. The event was initially announced early in February, to give teams time to work th..
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President Barack Obama, on his first day in office in 2009, signed an executive order stating that all government information that did not have to be kept secret for security or privacy reasons should be made public. The administration also launched the Open Data Initiative to publish government data and the http://www.data.gov website to distribute the data. This post From Open Government to Open Corporation first appeared on Dan Str..
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Codename One inherited basic layout concepts from Swing which in turn inherited them from AWT. We modernized and adapted them quite a bit by removing various behaviors and adding others, but a key to sizing and placing components is the preferred size. Every component calculates its own preferred size in the calcPreferredSize() method. This calculation takes into account the font, icon, padding and theme to produce the space required by..
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I really liked this book, especially the setting and the timeframe. It had good character development with Lina having flashbacks…
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Hat-tip to Hayes Brown for tweeting this link, apparently Amazon does, indeed, sell everything — including, it seems, radioactive uranium ore. This surprisingly unsurprising development is not the best part though, but rather the “Customer Questions and Answers” section as well as the top reviews; in a word, hilarious. Permalink.
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5 Lessons to Remember When Retailers Set up Innovation Labs
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www.thoughtworks.com
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12 years ago
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With all the current brouhaha about the real definition of innovation between two of the most famous academicians from Harvard University, it seems suddenly innovation has become a dirty word, misunderstood and misrepresented in executive circles.
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Many years ago, Melvin Conway had observed that how organizations were structured would have a strong impact on any systems they created. His observation has become known as Conway’s Law, and the collective experiences of both my colleagues and myself have time and again reinforced the truth of this statement.
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Finally, after an uncomfortable few weeks of just one or two entries here, I have amassed a respectable roster highlighting the past week’s best podcasts. Enjoy! Permalink.
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CoreOS: thousands of machines and millions of Docker containers... no hypervisor needed.
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www.danstroot.com
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12 years ago
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I have been playing around with CoreOS to get a sense of how everything works. The vision of this project is incredible. CoreOS describes itself as "a new Linux distribution that has been re-architected to provide features needed to run modern infrastructure stacks. The strategies and architectures that influence CoreOS allow companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter to run their services at scale with high resilience." This post Core..
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The other day, as I drove home from work and practiced my dictation to the tune of Siri’s inept transcription abilities, I deftly tapped iMessages’ “Send as Text Message” tooltip for what — given the number of text messages I send each month — must quite literally fall somewhere in the neighborhood of the millionth time. I tapped this button two or three times until, finally, my phone realized I wanted every outgoing message sent without th..
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Small update. This week was bug fixes and more improvements to the level editor (more on that here) . In other news, we were grateful to get some coverage from Monday Night Indie ! Unfortunately the stream highlighted some pretty major issues with the tutorial, so... Brand new level design! That's it for this week. Thanks for reading.
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Codename One & Java Code Geeks are giving away free JavaOne Tickets (worth $3,300)!
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www.codenameone.com
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12 years ago
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Would you like to go to JavaOne ? Besides being a cool conference it’s loads of fun with shows and events thru-out the city. Now you have a chance, Codename One and Java Code Geeks have teamed up to give away TWO full passes (worth $1,650 each) and to win all you need to do is: – Retweet this tweet: [
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Probability to win the FIFA World Cup 2014 visualized over time
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yieldthought.com
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12 years ago
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Probability to win the FIFA World Cup 2014 visualized over time : I kept wanting to check this on my iPad so went ahead and hacked together a cron job and static Google AppEngine site for it. It’s the daily probability that any given team will win the world cup, visualized over time. Enjoy!
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From the day after Apple’s WWDC Keynote, Joe Steele took a refreshingly even-handed look at Swift, giving both the opinions of its proponents and opponents equal time, attention, and weight. And as if this were not enough, he included a number of astute observations and his causes for both concern and enthusiasm as well. If you, like me, have trouble staying abreast of tech news and thus have yet to read much about Swift, this is a great st..
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One of my favorite ways to develop software is to do it together with others. Pair programming has always been a motivating and fun activity for me, but some pairings work better than others. When our team was formed we decided to pair program and rotate partners every day. I had lots of fun programming with Milina, Asanka, Manoj and Chamath, but my favorite session was the one I had with Sankalpa.
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Introduction Dave Cheney published a post called Ice Cream Makers and Data Races . The post showed an example of an interesting data race that can occur when using an interface typed variable to make a method call. If you have not read the post yet please do. Once you read the post you will discover that the problem lies with the fact that an interface value is implemented internally using a two word header and that the Go memory model ....
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Once upon a time it used to be difficult to create integration tests in Ember.js. Fortunately, the framework has come a long way and it’s now really easy to get integration testing working in your application. This screencast shows how to set it up with ember-cli: There is some boilerplate code required that you’ll need at the top of your integration test files if you want to do it yourself. Here it is:
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I’ve always been particular about the look of things. I’m a designer. So it’s both a blessing and a curse to be constantly tuned in to the lopsided accidental world around me. I’m always looking for evidence of design and underlying structure and marveling at the mastery and the chaos of the built world. My eyes are a high-bandwidth channel. I can’t help but notice everything.
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To use points or not to use them, that is often the topic of a lot of discussion and conjecture. And the humble point is often lost/misunderstood in all the talk. So I thought I'd dedicate this post to do a Point 101 to refresh our understanding of the point, and its usefulness in estimation. What is a Story Point ? It is a subjective unit of estimation used by Agile teams to estimate User Stories.
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In Memory of Luke Barrett Beloved son, brother, husband, father and friend. Luke died on 26 June 2014. He was 42. Thoughtworks mourns the sudden and tragic passing of Luke Barrett. Luke was the leader of our European business, but also a friend, a colleague, a mentor and a role model to Thoughtworkers around the world.
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The term "Microservice Architecture" has sprung up over the last few years to describe a particular way of designing software applications as suites of independently deployable services. While there is no precise definition of this architectural style, there are certain common characteristics around organization around business capability, automated deployment, intelligence in the endpoints, and decentralized control of languages and data.
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In reply to shahar. Oh, Hi, Shahar! Always a surprise to meet familiar faces across the internet...
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I really have very little to say on the recent debate surrounding the future viability of podcast networks. To me, it seems a lot like the age-old flame wars comparing Macs and PCs, and the more recent and equally bombastic arguments over iOS versus Android: everyone has their own personal preference, and we must all accept that. Taken a step further, everyone has their own personal preference, we need to accept that, and no one will ever c..
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Master SDN hacker Flavio sent me some tunes. They were sitting on my desktop in a folder: $ ls ~/Desktop/ uncopyrighted_tunes_from_flavio/ I wanted to listen them while hacking, but what was the easiest way…? I wanted to use the nautilus file browser to select which folder to play, and the totem music/video player to do the playing. Drop a file named totem into: ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/ with the content..
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Master SDN hacker Flavio sent me some tunes. They were sitting on my desktop in a folder: $ ls ~/Desktop/ uncopyrighted_tunes_from_flavio/ I wanted to listen them while hacking, but what was the easiest way…? I wanted to use the nautilus file browser to select which folder to play, and the totem music/video player to do the playing. Drop a file named totem into: ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/ with the content..
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The third part of the “Is TDD Dead?” hangout series with Martin Fowler, Kent Beck and DHH centered around “Feedback and QA” - the nuances of feedback and the role of the QA. After the 1st part, Fabio Pereira published his thoughts “Mockists Are Dead.
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I absolutely loved the ending of this series. It was just so good, but in my opinion the ending was a bit cliche, yet the author…
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In reply to Brian. Anything you want.
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It’s sad to see tourism and capitalism ruining the way of life for a people whose traditions go back generations and hundreds of years. You might not agree with their beliefs, or may even go so far as to boldly proclaim the Amish lifestyle nothing more than a sham to avoid taxes; but regardless if your own personal opinions, I think we can all agree that this is unfortunate. Permalink.
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