Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 4, 2016

As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old code slowly over time? In order to understand this, I built a little thing to analyze Git projects, with help from the formidable GitPython project. The idea is to go back in history historical and run a git blame (making this somewhat fast was a bit nontrivial, as it turns out, but I’ll spare you the details, which involve some opportunistic caching of files, pick historical points spread out in

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 6, 2016

If you Google you, do you like who shows up? Do you feel like you’ve got a powerful message to share, but without the right positioning, find yourself talking to the metaphorical mute button? Are you having trouble outgrowing an outdated reputation at work? Or maybe you’re just looking to get a better seat at the table. 9 Ways to Strengthen Your Winning Well Brand.

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 7, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Turn your radio dials to SiriusXM Channel 125 tonight at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific) for the #GeneralLeadership Hour on the David Webb Show! On the first Wednesday of every month, we strive to bring you the opportunity to engage with our team and our guests virtually and on-the-air with the radio program and live Twitter stream.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Bob Gourley. On 1 December The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity issued their key deliverable, the report on Securing and Growing The Digital Economy. That is a good report. For policy-makers new to cybersecurity the introduction recaps issues the nation has been dealing with for quite some time now. And the many recommendations are things we should all support.

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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I bet if I asked you what your company is all about you’d give me that same ol’ rehearsed elevator pitch. You’d be able to tell me what it does and why it’s important. But, if I asked you how. You just might stall. The answers on “ how ” a business does what it does lies in its unique combination of systems that governs how it executes its mission.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 4, 2016

As a project evolves, does the new code just add on top of the old code? Or does it replace the old code slowly over time? In order to understand this, I built a little thing to analyze Git projects, with help from the formidable GitPython project. The idea is to go back in history historical and run a git blame (making this somewhat fast was a bit nontrivial, as it turns out, but I’ll spare you the details, which involve some opportunistic caching of files, pick historical points spread out in

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2016

He’s in the background responding to emails, setting appointments, or fixing your website. She’s overseeing projects, and clicking off those daily/weekly/monthly tasks that you may forget about while you focus on what YOU do best. He’s the glue that keeps things together, she’s the one who graciously gatekeeps, protecting your time and workload when she can.

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 9, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.” -Gen George Patton. Planning for greatness is very important, but just like the surfer sitting in the lineup at some point you have to actually drop in and ride the waves.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Brigg Patten. Big data is a buzz term in many industries, but many people still do not understand the concept of it. Data analysis tools can benefit any company, and new tools are being invented every year. The tools are designed for specific industries, and a company's staff may need specialized training. An elearning company can give everyone an interactive learning experience.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2016

What’s the secret to a long-term relationship? “Overlooking the negative and focusing on the positive,” says Helen Fisher, a best-selling author on relationships and a fellow at the Kinsey Institute. Speaking on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show , Fisher says that brain scans of couples averaging 20 years revealed the parts of the brain that were active were those linked to empathy, self-control, and an ability to overlook negative, that is, “positive illusions.”.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I’ve been fortunate enough over the course of my 34-year career to have arrived at what I call the leadership summit – a high place of great business success and personal satisfaction, and a fulfilling culmination of years of effort, determination, and dedication. On many occasions since that achievement I’ve been asked the “ How did you do it?

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Toptal

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Designing across cultural boundaries has broad implications and presents challenges Google Translate can’t solve. Cultural tendencies, values, and taboos must be considered in addition to language.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 19, 2016

We’d both been looking forward to it–our first Thanksgiving together. We’d each been the primary holiday cooks in our previous marriage, which can feel lonely and overwhelming at times. But not this year. Now we had each other. We’d planned the perfect menu the week before while eating sushi over candlelight. We’d had fun shopping.

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Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 5, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. The secret of happiness is: find something more important. than you are and. dedicate your life to it. Daniel Dennett, Philosopher. The U.S.A.F. Thunderbirds move in unison, seemingly thinking and acting as one…at over 1,000 miles-per-hour.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Bob Gourley. The report of the President's Commission on Enhancing Cybersecurity has just been posted to the White House Website. You can download the report here ). My quick thoughts: If you are a technologist or a security expert or have been tracking security issues, you can skip the first 10 pages. You know the state of things. This section is not meant for you.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Leading an U.S.-based business during these volatile times in our history has never been more challenging. Race relations are being tested every day across the country. There’s a threat that emerging public policy may wipe-out a large portion of the lower-end labor force. The direction of international business dealings is in question as the promise of new trade laws and tariffs looms.

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Joel on Software

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Pretty much 100% of developers working for other people end up signing some kind of “proprietary invention agreement,” but almost all of them misunderstand what’s going on with that agreement. Most developers think that the work they do at work belongs to their employer, but anything they work on at home or on their own time is theirs.

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Toptal

DECEMBER 16, 2016

In the past few years, Microsoft has pulled a few aces from up its sleeve. Yes, they messed up Skype, failed with smartphones, and almost succeeded with tablets. But, they did some really amazing things as well. Relinquishing their closed empire approach, they open-sourced.NET, joined the Linux Foundation, released SQL Server for Linux, and created this great new tool called Visual Studio for Mac.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The second half of December is a great time for recognition, celebration, white elephant gifts and other fun. Yes, yes, please do all that, but don’t stop there. The best holiday gift you can give your team is to “own the ugly.” To help your team have the tough conversations they’re longing to have. To stare squarely in the face of what’s not working and clear the decks for a remarkable 2017.

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 12, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “…truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking”. -Malcolm Gladwell, from Blink. What do you think of when you read the title? Do you think of an organization that lacks regulation, rules and policies, and a requirement to gather a large amount of information to be analyzed before making a decision?

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Marty Meehan. Historically, the public sector has focused on a narrow set of cyber threats. Espionage and insider threat were among the primary focus areas given limited public-facing services and air-gapped infrastructure. However, as recent high-profile breaches have illustrated, the infrastructure at federal agencies today is far more integrated than ever before, and transparency initiatives have increased the amount of public-facing data and services.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

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Steve Farber

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Mitch Luciano had worked for Trailer Bridge for three years, and things weren’t going well for the Florida-based logistics company. They had churned through three CEOs in as many years, and the business was generating about a one percent annual return on investment. They needed to turn things around, and they needed to do it fast. In 2014 the company’s board moved Luciano into the president role (he didn’t want the CEO title, and who could blame him?

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Toptal

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Your software isn’t fully tested until you write integration tests for it. While unit tests help ensure that functions are properly written, integration tests help ensure that the system is working properly as a whole. In this article, Toptal Software Engineer Luka Blažecki uses Node.js to explain why integration testing is important for every development platform and how to write clean, composable integration tests.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2016

He’s in the background responding to emails, setting appointments, or fixing your website. She’s overseeing projects, and clicking off those daily/weekly/monthly tasks that you may forget about while you focus on what YOU do best. He’s the glue that keeps things together, she’s the one who graciously gatekeeps, protecting your time and workload when she can.

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 16, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy. It’s that festive time of the year when we pause to spend time with our families and focus on what is important: our relationships.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Marty Meehan. As attested to in our previous post in this series, the dynamic nature of today’s cyber threats has led to the evolution of cyber threat intelligence as an essential component of every enterprise’s cyber risk reduction strategy. Threat intelligence provides organizations with the information needed to make smarter, data driven decisions about protecting their sensitive information and IT assets.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Many managers have an unspoken expectation that employees are responsible for motivating themselves. Their idea goes like this: since the company pays them, they should do what they’re told, and happily complete any task put in front of them.

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