Coding Horror

AUGUST 25, 2016

I don't think we computer geeks appreciate how profoundly the rise of the smartphone, and Facebook, has changed the Internet audience. It's something that really only happened in the last five years , as smartphones and data plans dropped radically in price and became accessible – and addictive – to huge segments of the population. People may have regularly used computers in 2007, sure, but that is a very different thing than having your computer in your pocket, 24/7, with you every step of ever

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Change Starts Here

AUGUST 3, 2016

The field of organizational change is littered with people who were hired to implement change and then eventually fired because the leaders who hired them wouldn’t actually let them do the job. These are a few of the stories I’ve heard over the years: A change manager wasn’t given access to the people who really needed to lead the change, thus condemning her project to fizzle out.

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Erik Bernhardsson

AUGUST 4, 2016

I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It’s easy to forget, but Spotify’s key differentiator back then was the low-latency playback. People would say that it felt like they had the music on their own hard drive. (The other key differentiator was licensing – until early 2009 Spotify basically just had all kinds of weird stuff that employees had uploaded.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2016

Sam knew something was wrong. It just wasn’t fun anymore. The creativity and enthusiasm had drained from the company. Decisions took forever. Managers were finding it harder than ever to recruit and retain talent. Sam had hired me to help him crack the code. As I pulled up to Sam’s office, I knew he’d be unhappy with my recommendation–which involved a serious look in the mirror at his own leadership behaviors.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 15, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Perception is reality. No matter how you view yourself, your profile as a leader will be constructed for you by those with which you work and interact. -Jordan Tinney. Faking Your Way to Authenticity? Seems like a contradiction.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 14, 2016

(Nearly) everybody in the business world has a boss. So naturally there are a lot of people out there trying to make great impressions and move up the ladder of success. But the reality it, only so many succeed. The big question is, what separates those who get the promotion versus those do don’t? Why do some make it look so easy, while others seem to never get over the hump?

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Change Starts Here

AUGUST 16, 2016

A recent conversation reminds me of a common blind spot for improvement teams: getting so caught up in implementation that they lose focus on creating lasting change. His cross-functional improvement team was charged with driving out unnecessary costs in the operation. The task seemed straightforward: use data to find opportunities for making better spending decisions, and improve related processes.

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Erik Bernhardsson

AUGUST 4, 2016

I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It’s easy to forget, but Spotify’s key differentiator back then was the low-latency playback. People would say that it felt like they had the music on their own hard drive. (The other key differentiator was licensing – until early 2009 Spotify basically just had all kinds of weird stuff that employees had uploaded.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 31, 2016

Want to be a more powerful listener? If you’re like me, sometimes the distractions are personal. We’re afraid to hear ourselves. Great listening starts by setting aside the physical and emotional distractions that get in the way of what we most need to hear. But when we can, the impact is palpable. I encourage you to pick one person this week and really listen to what she has to say.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 24, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “To be a good leader, you sometimes need to go down the untraveled path. Being bold in the face of uncertainty will help give your team courage and motivate them to keep striving when the going gets tough.”‘ Ilya Pozin.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 5, 2016

Bob Gourley. I try hard to stay away from hyperbole in the hopes that when I do issue a bold warning more people will listen. But this is a pretty bold one and you should certainly dive into the observable facts yourself to come to your own conclusion. First, my assessment based on years of observation: This federal election, 8 Nov 2016, there will be cyber attacks against our voting infrastructure.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 22, 2016

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 28, 2016

Leadership is a great responsibility – but with that responsibility comes something that we never really hear about in all of our education, training and preparation. And it’s something that can be destructive and damaging to our performance as a leader, and to our overall health and well-being, unless it is managed and controlled. That “something” is stress and anxiety.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

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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Toptal

AUGUST 16, 2016

As a result of smartphones and mobile applications becoming so popular, web developers have been looking for ways to create mobile applications using JavaScript. This increased demand has led to the development of many JavaScript frameworks capable of running native-like applications on mobile devices. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Johannes Stein compares the current two most popular choices for mobile-oriented JavaScript frameworks, Cordova and React Native.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 4, 2016

“John,” the CEO of a fast-growing start-up, was visibly frustrated when I asked him what he needed me to work on with his team. “I love my team. And they care so much! They’re full of great ideas… ” I waited for the BUT. “BUT,” Sometimes they get stuck on an idea and can’t move on. We’re moving fast and sometimes that means failing fast and letting go of ideas that didn’t work.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 12, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “I may not have been the best combat commander, but I always strove to be. My men depended on me to carefully analyze every tactical situation, to maximize the resources that I had at my disposal, to think under pressure, and then to lead them by personal example.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 11, 2016

Bob Gourley. The United States Congress Permanent Joint Committee on Information Technology does not exist, yet. But with attack after attack against our nation's IT systems the time has come to consider the idea. First, some background on what a Joint Committee of Congress can be. Congress has great leeway in how it executes its constitutionally mandated responsibilities to legislate and fund.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 11, 2016

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

10 Signs Your Company Culture Needs a Fix. There is little doubt that the best performing firms on the planet have exciting and healthy cultures – think Google, Southwest and Nike – while other organizations seem to be in a constant state of struggle to reach their full potential. Interestingly, the leadership teams at struggling companies are often confounded to understand the reasons for their firm’s “underperformance” Company culture is often to blame.

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Toptal

AUGUST 4, 2016

Elixir, with its simple and clean syntax, makes building scalable and maintainable concurrent applications a breeze. Ecto is a database wrapper that lives up to the high expectations set by Elixir's reputation. Its domain-specific language provides a pleasant way to interact with databases and build fault-tolerant, concurrent applications in Elixir with ease.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2016

David Dye and I are on a mission to rid the world of soul-crushing leadership behaviors. I’m confident in our vision and our approach. I know it’s what I’ve been put on this planet to do, and that I’ve partnered with the right person to make it happen. And yet, despite my passionate desire to make an impact, I sometimes let my own fears get in the way of asking for what I need.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 3, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “This is where the quote goes. The test should be bold italics, and the author should bold without italics. All should be right justified and tagged with the “Blockquote” text style.” Quote Author.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 9, 2016

Bob Gourley. There are seven key MegaTrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the first of these trends, Cloud Computing.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 19, 2016

I recently spent a couple of days in New York. It was hot and humid, so I didn’t think twice being offered a ride in an open bicycle cart from Central Park to my hotel, which was approximately a 15 minute ride. I asked the driver to take the scenic road and enjoyed a last glance of the beautiful park, which added another 35 minutes to my New York experience. “It’s 35 dollars sir’ or at least that is what I have heard.

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Toptal

AUGUST 30, 2016

Kotlin is a new, expressive general-purpose programming language powered by the same virtual machine technology that powers Java. Since Kotlin compiles to the JVM bytecode, it can be used side-by-side with Java, and it does not come with a performance overhead. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Ivan Kušt gives us a walkthrough of ten major features of Kotlin that help avoid boilerplate code and, more importantly, save time.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 15, 2016

It was late. It was just Joanne, the HR Director; Juan dusting the doors; and I left in the building. The only sounds were the swishing of the sprinklers hitting against the high glass windows. Joanne looked up at me from behind her desk with that exhausted, weary grin that comes from realizing that the work ahead is more complicated than you thought. “There’s a reason you told me that story last week about that CEO you’re working with, isn’t there?

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General Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior.”. ― Stephen M.R. Covey , How fast does a $30B company move, sell, grow and survive? How fast does a start-up develop their foothold in the business environment?

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