The real driver of regional inequality in America (more)

Silicon Valley billionaire Stewart Butterfield voices support for Universal basic income (more)

app I use to keep an entire Private Wiki folder of text files in synch between Drop Box and Android devices - because mobile-Drop Box will only keep manually-flagged files available Off-Line. (more)

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Martin Fowler suggests the Feature Toggle instead of (Version Control System) Branching to support Continuous Integration. Good for A-B Test, etc. The basic idea is to have a configuration file that defines a bunch of toggles for various features you have pending. The running application then uses these toggles in order to decide whether or not to show the new feature... It's very important to retire the toggles once the pending features have bedded down in production. This involves removing the definitions on the configuration file and all the code that uses them. Otherwise you will get a pile of toggles that nobody can remember how to use... Feature toggles can be used for permanent variable configuration too, such as different versions of a software for different contexts. This is a different usage to handling pending features but most of the implementation is the same. If you use feature toggles for other scenarios too, it's wise to clearly separate the pending feature case from the permanent cases. (more)

when people talk about Fixed Price contracts for Software Development Projects, they usually mean a contract that's fixed in price and scope. (And sometimes time/deadline.) (more)

WikiEngine by Martin Pool, in Python (more)

Pragmatic Programmer: 1999 book by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, ISBN:978-0201616224 - excellent (more)

PayPal cut access (donations) today to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.org for violating its Acceptable Use policy. How ironic that something that started as an DigiCash concept of P2P Money would take this position. (more)

Jonathan Martin looks at research on Self Control/grit as a crucial trait for kids' success in life (Educating Kids). Having just finished PaulTough’s new book, How Children Succeed, I believe Angela Duckworth stands out significantly in that book (she’s the star); she offers a series of perceptive insights and the research evidence which underpin the book, as captured in its subtitle, Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character... We should be equally worried, about learning that is too easy for our students, learning that is about listening to the lecture, reading the book, and “cranking out” the paper, year after year (NPC), for at least 8 of them, and then coming out of college and realizing how much more is required of success... From her collaboration with the legendary positive psychology guru Martin Seligman, whose work has long been highly important to me, Duckworth, as Tough explains, has derived a list of 7 key traits of character in this context, and note the way this is understood as performance character, not Moral character: Grit, Self Control, zest, Social Intelligence, gratitude, Optimism, and curiosity. (more)

How I Used Deep Learning To Train A Chatbot To Talk Like Me (Sorta) (more)

Audrey Watters says Teach History (more)

Seeing Agility (beyond Agile Product Development) as a "strategic capability". Per Certain to Win: The goal of OODA is not just to rapidly Respond to the market, but to Shape the Market. (more)

Steve Denning: Beyond Agile Operations: How To Achieve The Holy Grail Of Strategic Agility (more)

SRI International (SRI) is an American nonprofit research institute headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The trustees of Stanford University established SRI in 1946 as a center of innovation to support economic development in the region. The organization was founded as the Stanford Research Institute. SRI formally separated from Stanford University in 1970 and became known as SRI International in 1977. SRI describes its mission as creating world-changing solutions to make people safer, healthier, and more productive.[1] It performs client-sponsored research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, and private foundations. It also licenses its technologies,[2] forms strategic partnerships, sells products,[3] and creates spin-off companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International

by C P Snow, ISBN:0-521-45730-0 - Sciences (Natural Science) vs Humanities (Liberal Arts): Culture War? (more)

Police Stood By As (Right-Wing) Mayhem Mounted in Charlottesville (more)

GoogleGlass 2.0 and the Future of Augmented Reality. I haven’t given up on the application of AR outside of work. My sense is that AR and voice control represents the next computing platform, which we will be transitioning to very quickly, over the next few years (more)

Hybrid Mobile Apps are Overtaking Native – PhoneGap (more)

Enterprise Facilitation, International Development, Economic Development (more)