From Larry Summers to James Watson, certain scientists have a long and questionable tradition of using “data” to make claims about intelligence and aptitude.
dotScale 2014 - Robert Kennedy - Life in the Trenches of healthcare.govFilmed at http://dotscale.io in Paris on May 19, 2014.More talks at http://dotconferences.ioRobert is a former SRE for Healthcare.gov and a software Engineer at Google
Turkey Dinners and Cache Conscious ProgrammingHave you ever tried baking a pizza in an oven at an eighth the recommended temperature? The pizza will in fact never be fully cooked, never achieving a high enough temperature to melt the cheese, crisp the bread, etc. In many ways, crafting programs are similar to baking a pizza.
Don't Link that Line Number!Today I saw a co-worker take a link from a specific line number in our team's github repository and place it in the comments section of a user story. This is very helpful for those who need to see a quick reference to the code that could be causing a defect, but it's wrong.
Webinar: MongoDB for Time Series Data: Setting the Stage for Sensor ManagementIt goes like this. Dave sure is shipping a lot of stuff.
SQLite: Small. Fast. Reliable. Choose any three.SQLite is a fantastic database and in this post I'd like to explain why I think that, for many scenarios, SQLite is actually a great choice. I hope to also clear up some common misconceptions about SQLite. As the maintainer of an ORM, I get asked a lot of questions about databases.
The software design trends that we love to hateThis particular design trend found its footing in Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 design. It was all big, buttons and bright colors with no extraneous texture or ornamentation—ideas that later spread to Windows 8, iOS 7, OS X Yosemite, the Android L release, and many apps running on those platforms.
Euclideon's unlimited resolution: A viable theory.They have since moved into the geospatial data industry, which is more suited to their technology than games, and the subsequent videos, to me at least, seemed rather vague as to how their technology worked (which is fair enough since it is likely very valuable).
0xCAFEBABE ? - java class file format, an overviewWritten by and Nassim Eddequiouaq 2014-04-28 23:51:31
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.