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Safety at Uber

Ben Smith, Editor-in-Chief, Buzzfeed News
Mat Honan, Silicon Valley Bureau Chief, Buzzfeed News
John Paczkowski, Managing Editor, Buzzfeed News

Dear Ben, John and Mat,

Serendipity, training montages, and how my friend automated himself out of a job

“No one person’s…

PhD to Product: Journey between two unknowns

When I embarked on my (mathematics) PhD, I did not have a career in mind. I certainly did not expect to head up a small product team at a growing EdTech company. I barely knew what Product Management was back then. Hell, I’m still not entirely sure.

Twitter tue votre ligne du temps sans vous demander votre avis

Et le mouvement s’accèlère… A vous…

What is Disruptive Technology? How Do You Know It When You See It?

Being a polyglot programmer

I have been a Java developer for the past 5 years and working in a single stack has its own merits and…

Our Vampire Future? — Wireheading and Hitech Psychopaths

Dispatch from Baghdad-by-the-Bay: A Simple Way for *Tech* People to Show They Care About San Francisco

I rose in my mythical helicopter and looked down on the hippies and the heppies, the brokers and the…

Reading “Peopleware” Part One

I recall — trying to find my way into the awesome world of computer and software development in my younger…

Why is Gender Equality Still an Uphill Battle?

I have to preface this discourse by saying that my “data” is anecdotal. I…

3 Things You Can Do This International Women’s Day

This month — take 3 small steps to narrow the…

GE Predix 추진 전략

GE는 AT&T, Cisco, Intel과의 Partnership을 체결하고 산업 사물 인터넷 플랫폼(IIoT) Predix를 발표했습니다.

MBKHack: This experience was really life changing…he was a different person. #MyBrothersKeeper #ItTakesaVillage

Benefits of being a Jr. Developer at a Startup

Version Control and Politics

There is a project I’ve wanted to work on for quite some time, and it really centers around a tool that programmers use every day: Git.

Today, Git largely is used, or perhaps solely, by programmers and the tech industry to make collaborated changes to…

Types of web developer jobs

I meet a lot of people who want to start a career as a web developer with no idea of what the trade-offs are of working at different sorts of jobs. This article aims to give you a rough idea of the sort of environments you could end up working in as a developer.

“…but first, let’s kill all the techbros”

Wait, that was lawyers, right? Almost as bad as fatcat bankers! And greedy realtors!

Why does “Twitch Plays Pokemon” Work?

[Reposted from my old blog. Original posting date: 2/18/2014]

EDIT 1: In v1 of this post some of my wording was misinterpreted to mean we don’t care about scaling chat — we do! In fact late last night we released some improvements that…

Imaginary world through VR

As a child I was always fascinated by the all the science-fiction movies out there that tried to predict the…

Human-Driven Car Crashes Into Bus

On February 14th, 2016, an incident occurred that could have potentially disastrous implications for the future of human driving. A human-operated Lexus SUV was driving down El Camino Real in Mountain View, California, when it changed lanes to avoid a pile of sandbags…

How Do You Really Find the Best Mentors?

I attribute my professional growth and trajectory to a few ridiculously awesome mentors…

Telecommuting in the Tech Industry

The “work from home” model of getting business done is booming across multiple industries…

Let’s not forget persistence and dedication. You will need to put in a lot of hours of work to build up your business. Lastly, be prepared to fail and be laughed at. But that shouldn’t discourage you. Failure is your best teacher.

Digital Addiction in Tweens & Teens

Digital addiction in tweens and teens is pervasive

Go anywhere in public, from a mall to a national park, and you’ll see teenagers (and adults) using their phones as if nothing else exists around them. While everyone seems to know that the…

Awesome list. Really found the Quuu and Coolor tools to be instant game changers.

AGI for you and I? It’s a UI problem

Achieving an artificial general intelligence that solves problems that truly matter to you requires a new kind of UI. This UI enables and rewards you for digitizing (privately) the deeply personal information an AGI needs to help you solve the fuzzy and messy…

I don’t think any of those suppositions about bot-based interfaces are true. If anything those interfaces themselves are frail and error-prone.

If we disregard the security nightmare of exposing privileged information over an external text channel, and gloss over the fact that you would require users to install/register with…

The tech of aging

Most populations are aging. Malaysia is a classic example of that. The elderly have needs that are uniquely different…

Is your platform an anchor?

The increasing costs of switching technologies

Great and insightful article — summarises the problem I have with the female ‘quota’ in general. I’d probably never stop questioning myself if I only got into a development role due to a company pushing gender equality, eating up my confidence instead of nurturing it. That being said, it’s great to encourage more people (that being girls as well)…

Hey Gavin, ticket sales & music discovery is awesome synergy! Good to see you sensibly chose that route instead of streaming. My startup Rocki is addressing yet another aspect of digital music - audio’s gateway into smart home.

There’s so many aspects of music / music industry that is still evolving, there’s surely growing…

Wonderful, thought provoking reading for a Sunday evening in Lent. Thank you.

Essential WordPress Plugins Every Web Designer Needs

In the 5 years that I have been designing WordPress websites and blogs, I have compiled a list of essential plugins that you simply must have installed on your self hosted WordPress installations.

On one hand I really agree with this outlook as being the future, but I’m not entirely convinced it’s a good thing. This ties in to the lament of the decline of liberal arts. If people stop learning the humanities as part of their higher education, then I foresee a loss of the Renaissance, humanist, spirit that has made humanity so productive in the…

The Security Tangle

Can someone explain this to me.

Just for putting through a non financial transaction, I need to have an already registered e-mail id in which I will receive a mail with a pdf attachment that can be opened with a password (in all caps) which is a combination of two…

For anyone looking to recruit women in the field of robotics, I’d suggest looking at Robohub’s annual list of “25 Women in Robotics You Should Know About”. This list captures women at a variety of career stages and areas of robotics, and is updated annually. The women are all vetted by Robohub’s team of editors and robotics experts, and the list has…

Eric Schmidt is helping the Pentagon get better at using and understanding technology

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If it makes you feel any better, I am in exactly the same boat.

I spent the weekend up the coast, in previous years have panned weekends away on the same weekend.