My thoughts upon being accepted into immersive web development bootcamp, from back in December 2016
What follows is an attempt to come to terms with a loss that I have found myself grappling with over the past several weeks; the focus of this loss being the fledgling software Mastodon, a…
Hoisting in JavaScript means that variable and function declarations are moved to the top of their containing scope.
When the original HyperX Cloud Revolver first launched last year, I loved it.
Then I reviewed this year’s slightly updated model with rubber bits in the headband…and…
Right now, as a medical student, my life is spent in the books. But before beginning my journey in medical school, I was an Army Ranger and deployed eight times to combat. Let me share a story from…
Sometime back I published a post detailing how to deploy a Phoenix app to heroku. But at that…
At an event the other night, someone asked me how I steeled myself for the enormous risk of starting a company. There’s…
It’s been about three years since Apple launched the iPhone 5s. It was a refinement of…
This essay is a response to my previous one, and if you haven’t read that one yet you really should or else none of this will make sense. It is difficult to know what sort of response…
It’s 7:41am on a Saturday. I’m sipping a pour over under a tree at Go Get’em Tiger in Los Feliz, waiting…
Yesterday, @moverick did a piece where he said that people should not buy older phones or computers.
Inasmuch as I agree with the spirit of what he wrote, practical realities, especially in my line of work, have shown me otherwise, so I did a short video to…
A team from Tsinghua University in Beijing just gave machines the ability to convey specific emotions.
It feels like a crazily long time now since my adventures across the USA last autumn looking at trends in school design and edu innovation, and over the last 4 months — as well as getting stuck into new projects in the UK — I’ve been…
Today an engineering manager of a big company approached me with this issue. Here’s the actions I suggested:
1. Fix your organization first (if needed. Most organizations do need fix): make sure you give enough mentoring and…
In a time of “America First” the benefits of space travel are clouded by the smoke…
TED 2017 (April 24–28) has many great speakers from all over the world, so we were curious to…
Oracle acquired Moat. Google said Chrome might come equipped with a “default on” ad blocker. Facebook’s State of the Union, a.k.a F8, was about how they’re working to eliminate the Snap threat and betting on bots and…
In this new era of global ideas and mass migration, information is key. In response to the Refugee Crisis in Europe, the Refugee Info Bus is a mobile and adaptable on the ground project providing internet access, legal rights education and empowerment through technology.
In the simplest terms, “you are what you think.”
If you don’t feel confident, pretend you are until you gain the experience or tools necessary for it to become real.
No one feels competent 100% of the time, but they press on.
This week I want to explore issues around hiring, including legal hiring rights and hiring diversity. We’re going to explore this topic through one of the most homogenous hiring pools in the country: Silicon Valley.
Creating report files in Excel format is a feature that many users need out of their software applications.
Even back when the phone was just a phone, it was still an amazing technology that changed the…
One of the assignments during senior phase of the Grace Hopper program is to give a ten minute tech talk on a technical topic of our choosing that is not covered by the curriculum. It’s an opportunity to research something we are interested in and to teach our peers about it. As an…
I have been both an Apple smartphone owner and a Samsung smartphone owner. In fact my first fancy phone was Samsung and my current smartphone is, you guessed it, Samsung. However…
With the potential for quantum computing increasing year over year, have you considered utilizing a post-quantum secure system for End-End encryption? What is the strategic game plan for that eventuality given progress Google is making for major milestones?
I’ve been reading quite a lot of medium posts about women in tech as a way for me to learn, of the experiences and/or realities about being a women in the field. I’ve been told there’s a gender gap in the field and although my university has a quota for women, which is meant to encourage the…
Kyle here. For those of you wondering why you kept hearing loud roars like a…
Reading on “How technology improved throughout our history” is a subject that…
Thanks Miguel A. Branada , I agree we can have a better logo, but as I’m not expert in branding or design, would be great if you can suggest some logo designs that you’ll see most representative for OSSDC.org.
One small correction, I’ve said an “open autonomous car” not “open source autonomous car”, intentionally, as the…
The tech industry is constantly reinventing itself and as the job market continues to look for top technical talent, many large scale enterprises are searching for ways to retain their top developers. In this article, I will discuss the…
If you hear the phrase One Shot Charlie, hit it and quit it, or take the big drink, I’m usually referring to vendors who have no…
On Thursday, April 20th, CNBC published a story written by Anita Balakrishnan. Ms. Balakrishnan’s story presented points from Business Insider Poland’s recent chat (April 20, 2017) with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. The following quote included in Ms. Balakrishnan’s story…
While many people are talking about how Apple is ignoring the needs of local customers in China, it is funny that many Chinese mobile phone makers are making their product look more and more similar to iPhone.
Meanwhile, the fast growing of Chinese mobile phones brands like Huawei makes iPhone no longer the supreme…
So, how did I get there? Well, as with many things, it was for a class, I swear! (I don’t know what I’m going to do without that leverage to guilt my friends into doing things for/with me.) But, anyways, it had to be 24 hours without social media, which included no texting and no…
Today I’d like to discuss an epidemic that has spread across corporate America.
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo search for a few years and I just recently discovered searching with !Bangs.
Bangs allow me to search on thousands of sites, directly. I do a lot of research for my stories so bangs have allowed me to…
We’ve worked closely with newly formed organisations to implement complete computer networks — encompassing servers and networking equipment to provide file storage, email and remote access. Tying this in with cabling works and web design, we are a ‘one…
Samsung has finally released Galaxy S8 which has been receiving very positive reivews from everyone so far. With the disaster of the Galaxy Note 7 explosive battery, Samsung has taken a vow to make sure every handset gets repeated quality control before being put in stock.
Handys und Smartphones haben, je nach Hierarchieebene, schon länger den Weg in unsere Unternehmen gefunden. Das Nutzungsverhalten hat sich mit der Zeit aufgrund der wachsenden Funktionen verändert. Waren die Geräte damals…
Oddly enough, I do not miss TV. Our floors are being redone and the boobe tube has been off line for two weeks.
I am a fairly self-aware person. I know that I have a basic social media addiction. The first thing I do every morning is run through my social media in the following order: Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and then loop back to Facebook. I…
“We may one day look back at this week as the beginning of the Brain Machine Interface era.”
Maybe this week or this year will be regarded as a milestone of some sort, because of the announcement of new ventures and the increase in public attention. But from another standpoint, the beginning of the BMI era ought to be traced…
Lately I have been asking this question a lot especially when you analyze the number of highly valuable startups closing their doors. Just a few weeks back Beepi closed its door. Now, lets talk about Beepi for a moment. From what I have…
Last day i met with my friend who is now working in Meezan Bank. And shared six tips with him and his response was very good and i learnt many new things and tips from him and that was a great experience for me.
In any case, we may one day look back at this week as the beginning of the Brain Machine Interface era. Please mark this down. Or, if you are conducting a search…
Why only a few choose to excel…
For some reason, in small business, the responsibility of IT always seems to fall on the Finance person or the Office Manager.
The amount of bad tech that I see out there is staggering.
On Tuesday (April 25th) in my Digital Media class at Drexel University my class and I will listen to Nate Gaines, the Vice President of Business Development at Whistle Sports via skype. Nate is responsible for international prospecting and he is responsible for developing and negotiating contract…
Working from home — there’s one of those black and white questions I get.
So…
So, it’s what i start conversations with these days, especially when I’m talking in English.
So, like you know that…
So, like the other day i was around the corner….
So, i guess we will see…
It’s pretty fair to say that the current generation has been pretty much defined by technology. We now use it as part of just about every aspect of our daily lives from shopping to communication. Of course, whatever changes there are in the daily lives of…
Earlier this week I read “Yahoo’s Demise Is a Death Knell for Digital News Orgs” over at the Atlantic. I’ve been thinking about Yahoo! as it’s final ending has been playing out.
In the IT services field the acronym SLA gets thrown around a lot. Kind of like a baseball at a little league warm up.
There are certain things in life that people learn for themselves.
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FAW Jiefang, a truck manufacturer in China, showed a set of early features of a self-driving truck. FAW is one of the big 4 automakers in China and has joint ventures with foreign automakers such as GM…
Handling someone’s tech can be light and easy or it can be a heavy load.
A good candidate for the person I’m most tired of hearing about lately: Elon Musk, who was described yesterday by technology writer Steven Levy, in a remark that may be half tongue-in-cheek and may be purely serious, as “our current Visionary In…
There’s a great song by The Who entitled 5:15 that starts off with the line “Why should I care?”
Why do I do what I do?
A hyperlapse of a drive I took this afternoon. I have a love/hate relationship with…
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I’m a big fan of the hustle.
Google Allo- a real rival to whatsApp?
Are you also a person who is handling various communication webs through communication apps like Whatsapp, which makes the whole world appear in a nut shell to you?
At present, we are using so many apps just to talk to so many people in one long day and isn’t it…
Apple lost the magic part 2
Many moons back I had a boss named Bob.
The future holds fascinating promise.
I’m driving down the beach today and it’s a gorgeous day.
The mobile phone has changed.
