Advanced societies find it difficult to respond to Islam’s fundamentalists. The credit is not due to the fanatics. Yes, the cards they hold are used ruthlessly and cleverly and they score spectacularly. However, the real super-weapon of the radicals is their victim’s mind-set. Ou … | Continue reading
Sometimes in software development, we take giant leaps. | Continue reading
Microsoft has a lot of irons in the fire. Always has and always will. But judging from its recent acquisition of Revolution Analytics, the early success of its hosted machine learning service, and the forthcoming public launch of a MapReduce analog called "Cosmos," the Redmond, W … | Continue reading
Microsoft has a lot of irons in the fire. Always has and always will. But judging from its recent acquisition of Revolution Analytics, the early … | Continue reading
Picturelife didn't want to sell, but it had to In November 2013, when the photo storage service Everpix went down, the CEO of rival Picturelife offered assurances to his company’s customers. "We have lots of cash and ramping revenue," Picturelife CEO Nate Westheimer said in a twe … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-JTI-IMI2-2014-01-two-stagePillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015Latest information: Proposal Submission InformationProposals submitted: 15Inadmissible & ineligible prop … | Continue reading
A few months ago I started writing a journal and I’d like to share some thoughts about journaling and why I’m still doing it. I think it’s something worth giving a try. | Continue reading
Marshmallow is not just for kids anymore. In the past few years, there’s been a surge of gourmet marshmallows. I frequently see lavender, lemon, and chocolate flavored marshmallows for sale in clear plastic bags with a bow at price that usually exceeds $5. Even the good old Jet P … | Continue reading
Continuing our dive into the Internet Protocol Suite from Go (See part 1 Raw sockets in Go: IP layer), we are going to the link layer, so we can see the IP headers. | Continue reading
We discuss Apple’s recent results, why analysts get Apple wrong, the fraught nature of fans, epistemic closure, and whether the iPhone can continue to grow. Links Ben Thompson: Bad Assumptions – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Apple the Black Swan – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Best – Str … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-BES-2014-2015Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015Latest information: An overview of the evaluation results (Flash Call Info) is now available under the tab 'Call doc … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-DRS-2014-2015Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015Latest information: An overview of the evaluation results (Flash Call Info) is now available under the tab 'Call doc … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-GV-2014-2015Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015Latest information: An overview of the evaluation results (Flash Call Info) is now available under the tab 'Call docu … | Continue reading
This is the third post in a series covering the Samsung NX300 "Smart" Camera. In the first post, we have analyzed how the camera is interacting with the outside world using NFC and WiFi. The second one showed a method to gain a remote root shell, and it spawned a number of intere … | Continue reading
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Beer and fried food – it may be an American cliché but as the superbowl approaches, it’s hard to resist this game-time tradition. Fried calamari has become a favorite restaurant appetizer. It’s often sandwiched between wings and mozzarella sticks on restaurant and pub menus. This … | Continue reading
Continuous Delivery, by Jez Humble and David Farley is about three big ideas to get your code into production more reliably: Make a deployment pipeline: commit -> unit test -> acceptance test -> … -> deploy -> release Automate everything. | Continue reading
Note: I originally uploaded the wrong file. The correct file is 1:07 long, not 1:17. I am reposting this as many podcast clients download the file immediately. We briefly follow-up on last week’s copyright discussion, discuss Ben’s article on what the technology adoption curve ge … | Continue reading
Over the last few years I have keenly followed the rise of Bitcoin from its early days trading at around $8USD. I watched with interest when it made its sharp rise to $1200USD and then felt a bit of dismay with more recent decline back to around the $200USD mark.… | Continue reading
Over the last few years I have keenly followed the rise of Bitcoin from its early days trading at around $8USD. I watched with interest when it made its sharp rise to $1200USD and then felt dismay with more recent decline back to around the $200USD mark. As a whole… | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-CS2-CFP01-2014-01Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015Latest information: On 21 January the templates for drafting Part B.I and Part B.II of the proposals were upload … | Continue reading
Identifier: ERC-2014-STGPillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015Latest information: A total of 3272 proposals were submitted in response to the 2014 Starting Grant call (ERC-2014-STG). … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-INFRAIA-2014-2015Pillar: Excellent ScienceOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015Latest information: An overview of the evaluation results (Flash Call Info) is now available under the tab 'Call do … | Continue reading
A lesson from mankind’s experience is that all past generations have lived “interesting times”. Popular amnesia likes to lose sight of this; therefore, we think our day’s vicissitudes are unprecedented. That said it appears that we are departing from the cast of the past in a way … | Continue reading
I have answered a lot of MySQL pivot questions over on Stack Overflow and a few over on Database Administrators and have learned some things about how to transform data in MySQL.Unfortunately, MySQL does not have PIVOT function, so in order to rotate data from rows into columns y … | Continue reading
Macaroni and Cheese is an American classic. It’s practically a staple in our diets, or at least the boxed version was while growing up in the 80’s and 90’s. When craving the favorite cheese drenched pasta, how do you decide which one to make? From baked and boxed to fancier truff … | Continue reading
James thinks the idea of copyright is outdated and should be abolished. Ben is, well, see the title. Hosts Ben Thompson, @monkbent, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter Feedback | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-JTI-IMI2-2015-03-two-stagePillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015Latest information: The submission session is now available for: IMI2-2015-03-01(IMI2-RIA-IA), IMI2-201 … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-JTI-IMI2-2015-04-two-stage-MasterPillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015Latest information: The submission session is now available for: IMI2-2015-04-01(IMI2-CSA) | Continue reading
Download the palette. Unzip, open in Sketch and copy the palette into your own document. Use Control + C to quickly pick a color. Based on these things, originated by Designmodo’s Flat UI. | Continue reading
I have been working with grids for a long time now, and there is one challenge that pops up in every project: how many items do you put on a given row. Think, for example, of a row of news or product teasers. You may decide to go for 3 teasers per row, evenly spaced, for a certai … | Continue reading
After months in the making, renowned US accelerator Techstars last week finally announced officially that it is launching a program in Berlin. The accelerator will be based in the centre ...The post Techstars Berlin’s Jens Lapinski Q&A: ‘There is Space Here for a Horizontal, Inde … | Continue reading
I've been thinking about looking into Angular for a while now. I know a few people who swear by it, but, coincidentally, they're all backend developers (PHP/Symfony2). I actually do not know any frontend developers who actively use Angular. It's curious that this seems to be exac … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-SILC-II-2014Pillar: Industrial LeadershipOpening Date: Deadline: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015Latest information: An overview of the evaluation results (flash call info) is now available under the tab ‘Call' | Continue reading
An open letter to software developers all across the world. Dear Software Consultants, I hate to be the one to break this to you, but you were lied to when we hired you. Your job isn't about code at all. The interview process was kind of a train wreck (and, yeah, about that, sorr … | Continue reading
As the darkest and coldest part of the winter looms, the next three months or so are the most difficult to get through. There’s little to look forward to (the Super Bowl doesn’t quite do it for me) and spring seems so far away. This is when I remind myself that it’s stew and soup … | Continue reading
Ben and James discuss Xiaomi’s ambition to own the home, why we’re frustrated with patents, why the West is unfair to the developing world, and what makes China unique. Links Jordan Lewis: Exponent Bingo – Twitter Ben Thompson: Xiaomi’s Ambition – Stratechery Ben Thompson: Handic … | Continue reading
On July 31, 1971, Al Worden performed the first deep-space extra-vehicular activity. "No one in all of history" saw what he saw that day | Continue reading
Hands up those of you out there in full-time jobs who haven’t at least thought about finding a new one in the past year? Right, put your hands down, you ...The post Time For a Career Change? Jobspotting Takes Job Search ‘Out of the 90s’ appeared first on Silicon Allee News. | Continue reading
One of the many exciting things about the modern WebKit API is that it has an officially sanctioned communication mechanism for doing JavaScript-to-native communication. Hacks should no longer be necessary to get data back out of the WKWebView. It is a simple matter of registerin … | Continue reading
This millionaire isn't looking to profit from his real estate. | Continue reading
“Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.” ― Milan Kundera These...Categories: Breakfast SweetTags: chestnutgluten-free(Read more...) | Continue reading
Lorry Lokey, founder of media-relations site Business Wire, has sold his stunning San Francisco apartment for $6 million, Curbed SF reports. Lokey bought the home for $4.6 million in 2006, but he isn't looking to turn a profit on the sale. A signer of the Giving Pledge, Lokey ple … | Continue reading