In this week’s episode Ben and James discuss Apple Pay and its impact on retailers and banks. Links Glenn Fleishman: A Week of Apple Pay: Chips, PINs, and…signatures? – Six Colors Ben Thompson: The Problem with Payments – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Why Apple Pay was Blocked, Why A … | Continue reading
Bat tourism might sound creepy, but it may be the best way to help bat conservation around the world | Continue reading
metaio presented the VENTURI research project at its annual insideAR 2014 conference on augmented reality, which took place in Munich on the 29th and 30th October. A typical part of the conference is the presentation of funded research projects that Metaio is involved in. VENTURI … | Continue reading
I tweeted earlier, comparing DuckDuckGo to Google when searching for the term “Go 1.4 beta”, and how the first 50 results (I got bored scrolling and didn’t go further, no pun intended) on DuckDuckGo didn’t even have one mention of the language. Gabriel Weinberg being the good fou … | Continue reading
The rise and rise of carsharing is a relatively easy trend to explain: For people who live in densely-populated urban areas, owning a car is a royal pain in the ...The post Carsharing City: Audi Shared Fleet Targets Company Car Market appeared first on Silicon Allee News. | Continue reading
This is a guest post by Błażej Hadzik of netguru. Peer code review is not about criticising individual mistakes. It’s about making progress on a project as a team and keeping ...The post Top Tips: A Guide to Peer Code Review and Why You Should Do It appeared first on Silicon Alle … | Continue reading
Now with all the excitement surrounding SWIFT as a new language, aimed at specifically developing IOS and OS X applications, starting to die down a little we can start to get all excited about a to… | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015Pillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014Latest information: Subject to signature and conclusion of an Agreement associating Switzerland to parts of Horizon 2 … | Continue reading
Introducing concept of Streams, aiming to fix most of email-as-a-medium flaws | Continue reading
In this week’s episode Ben and James discuss Ben’s article “Peak Google” and the future of advertising. Links Ben Thompson: Peak Google – Stratechery Benedict Evans: The Irrelevance of Microsoft – Ben-Evans.com Peter Kriss: The Value of Customer Experience, Quantified – Harvard B … | Continue reading
The annual IT-Gipfel – or IT Summit – is organised by Germany’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, and is the country’s leading event for top political and industry players ...The post Meeting the Top Dogs from German Politics and IT: An Entrepreneur’s View of the IT-Gipfel … | Continue reading
Data Analyst / Digital Media – The Metropolitan Museum of ArtSoftware Developer / Digital Media – The Metropolitan Museum of ArtManager of Collection Information/Digital Media at The Me… | Continue reading
I originally posted this on Quora, but I thought it would be good to archive it more permanently here. For some background on Quip's technology stack, see What technologies were used to build Quip? and How is Quip's web client implemented? The formula engine for spreadsheets is i … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-EeB-2014-2015Pillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: EeB-05-2015(IA), EeB-06-2015(RIA), EeB-07-2015(IA) … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-SPIRE-2014-2015Pillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: SPIRE-05-2015(RIA), SPIRE-06-2015(RIA), SPIRE-07 … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-FoF-2014-2015Pillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: FoF-08-2015(RIA-CSA), FoF-09-2015(IA-CSA), FoF-10- … | Continue reading
When you're building a web application there's probably some shared functionality that you want to run for many (or even all) HTTP requests. You might want to log every request, gzip every response, or check a cache before doing some expensive processing. One way of organising th … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode Ben and James discuss why Ben thinks the Internet is totally overreacting to HBO’s announcement that they will sell subscriptions directly to customers, and then delve into what might be the underlying motivations behind Gamergate. Links Ben Thompson: The C … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-EUB-2015Pillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: EUB-1-2015(RIA-CSA), EUB-2-2015(RIA), EUB-3-2015(RIA) | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-ICT-2015Pillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: ICT-04-2015(IA-CSA-RIA), ICT-08-2015(COFUND-PCP-COFUND … | Continue reading
In celebration for Ada Lovelace Day, Thoughtworks hosted a meetup featuring talks from many prominent local women. I had the pleasure of speaking myself, in which I confessed publically:I am totally faking it.I’m not a “real” coder The tl;dr of my path in life is that I am not a … | Continue reading
In celebration for Ada Lovelace Day, Thoughtworks hosted a meetup featuring talks from many prominent local women. I had the pleasure of speaking myself, in which I confessed publically:I am totally faking it.I’m not a “real” coder The tl;dr of my path in life is that I am not a … | Continue reading
The Beach - 10 Months Later Anthony Bouch Mon, 10/13/2014 - 09:53 The Beach - 10 Months Later Placeholder for Submitted Info Share Placeholder for Feature Image or Video A short video showing my 60cm aquascape 10 months on... Tank: 60cm x 30cm x 36cm tank (17 gallons, 60 liters). … | Continue reading
Between the 8th and 10th October 2014, Manuel Aravecchia presented a paper on “Gaussian process for RSS-based Localisation”at Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2014) in Larnaca, (Cyprus). The paper proposes a novel indoor localisation system for … | Continue reading
Identifier: ERC-2015-STGPillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014Latest information: The submission session is now available for: ERC-StG-2015(ERC-STG) | Continue reading
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future...Categories: Ramblings Random San Francisco(Read more...) | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-SCC-2014-2015Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 5 May 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014Latest information: Flash call info now available in the "information package" on this page."Frequently asked question … | Continue reading
Whilst working on a project recently I took the opportunity to finally delve in to the world of ‘Big Data’ and ‘NoSQL’ databases. This opportunity came around as we wanted to improve a reporting to… | Continue reading
In this week’s episode Ben and James discuss the problems with Ello’s business model, James’ discomfort with Facebook, and why Social Networks always have ads. We also talk about incentives and something surprising Ben learned from the notorious Episode 18. Links Ben Thompson: El … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2014Pillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014Latest information: A total of 103 proposals were submitted in response to this call.The number of proposals for each … | Continue reading
“Der erste Dieselmotor der Welt, der Faradaysche Käfig, das berühmte U-Boot U1: Sie alle sind nun auch online zu bewundern. Das Deutsche Museum lässt Google Teile seiner B… | Continue reading
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Identifier: H2020-CS2-CPW01-2014-01Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014Latest information: The following changes were made to this call on 01 October 2014: The closing date of the ca … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-BBI-PPP-2014-1Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014Latest information: Update of the Frequently Asked Questions on Financing Rules on 30 September 2014. Adding questi … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-JTI-FCH-2014-1Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014Latest information: CLARIFICATION on the Scope of the topic 2.7:Scope of work comprises the development and optimiza … | Continue reading
The automatic summarization of long-running events from news steams is a challenging problem. A long-running event can contain hundreds of unique ‘nuggets’ of information to summarize, spread-out over its lifetime. Meanwhile, informatio reported about it can rapidly become outdat … | Continue reading
The automatic summarization of long-running events from news steams is a challenging problem. A long-running event can contain hundreds of unique ‘nuggets’ of information to summarize, spread-out over its lifetime. Meanwhile, informatio reported about it can rapidly become outdat … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode Ben and James reflect about last week’s episode and the personal feedback that resulted, then move on to discuss why Minecraft is a big deal as well as a bit about Apple’s new focus on privacy. Links Ben Thompson: Why Now For Apple Watch – Stratechery Ben T … | Continue reading
I think that it’s a pretty well-known fact that software developers aren’t the greatest people when it comes to testing software. Programmers tend to focus on testing the new functionality, methods… | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-MSCA-RISE-2014Pillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014Latest information: An overview of the evaluation results (Flash Call Information) is now available under the tab 'Ad … | Continue reading
Identifier: NFRP-2014-2015Pillar: Euratom Research and Training Programme 2014-2018Opening Date: Deadline: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014Latest information: A total of 64 proposals were submitted in response to this call.The num … | Continue reading
With all the new programming languages and frameworks that have become available recently some proven, solid and established languages have tended to be overlooked or dare I say it deemed to be obs… | Continue reading
I’m hosting my very first Feastly event in San Francisco on Wednesday. I’d be honored if you attend. there must be, between us and the fish which, if we...Categories: sides SnackTags: corntomato(Read more...) | Continue reading
In this week’s episode Ben explains why he has changed his mind about Apple Watch. James is not convinced. We go on for a while. Links Ben Thompson: What I Got Wrong About Apple Watch – Stratechery John Gruber: Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations – Daring Fireball Host … | Continue reading