The Parallax

JUNE 15, 2018

If the current state of cybersecurity—from APT hackers to rogue botnets to hacked gas stations—feels overwhelming, it might be because companies have been devaluing their women and minority employees. And it’s past time to knock that off, says Vijaya Kaza, Lookout Mobile Security’s chief development officer. “The time has come when we need to take it up a notch here,” she said during a phone call with The Parallax prior to Lookout’s Day of S(h)ecurity, the fourth gender and diversity development

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Xebia

JUNE 15, 2018

With the recent upsurge of Siri, Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa, speech recognition and synthesis have become an increasingly important tool in the developer’s toolbox. Working with speech data can not only improve the accessibility of your application. It can also increase conversion in your webshop, especially when customers shop on their mobile phones.

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Women on Business

JUNE 15, 2018

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Xebia

JUNE 15, 2018

Looking for inspiration on how to gain a shared insight in the current state of your team? And curious how to find actions for your team to improve? Read below about the ‘thermometer session’, a workshop that we designed to improve our own business unit. The goal of these sessions is to get an insight […]. The post Thermometer sessions – Gaining insight in your team appeared first on Xebia Blog.

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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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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 15, 2018

Picture this… You are a researcher, looking over one of the most comprehensive long-term studies of human behavior. You spend 42 years with nearly 270 men, studying their lives. While the human mystery generates 270 different stories that, on the surface, defy any explanation, one fundamental truth comes out – relationships are absolutely critical to happiness.

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Robots and Pencils

JUNE 15, 2018

Dark Mode Apple has used dark materials for years, from the U2 iPod to black MacBooks, its professional Mac apps and tvOS. Clever designers and users have been customizing their Macs for decades, with projects like Max Rudberg’s Obsidian menu bar that took this further and paved the way for Apple’s own version. Now, in macOS 10.14 Mojave, Apple is finally introducing Dark Mode, a dark version of the macOS UI that applies to the entire system.

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Battery Ventures

JUNE 15, 2018

Way back in 2010, I started hearing from several of our Battery portfolio companies that they were using a specific type of software to track the collection of sales and use taxes on their products, and to help make those payments to tax authorities. This software—made by a company I’d never heard of, based in Bainbridge Island, Washington—helped companies navigate the Byzantine world of the 12,000-plus separate sales and use tax jurisdictions in the U.S.

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Net Objectives

JUNE 15, 2018

If you are using SAFe, or considering it, or even just using its planning event, you should definitely read this except from our SAFe page. It covers each of these topics and provides links for more. . Managing for flow of value . See potential adverse affects of a new feature. Allocate capacity to your most important work. Focus on completing releasable work, not features.

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High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

Hey, it's HighScalability time: Scaling fake ratings. A 5 star 10,000 phone Chinese click farm. ( English Russia ). Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please lend me your support on Patreon. It would mean a great deal to me. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10.

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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Net Objectives

JUNE 15, 2018

The Minimum Business Increment (MBI) is the most significant concept I’ve seen in 20 years. It originates with Denne and Cleland Huang’s Software By Numbers. An MBI: Is the smallest chunk of value that can be realized. Is all of what is needed to realize the value. has value associated with it so we should be able to sequence our MBIs. . This looks similar to the Lean Startup’s MVP but is considerably different.

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Planbox

JUNE 15, 2018

As organizations grow, it is crucial to find employees who are capable of doing more than simply performing well themselves. The ideal employee for a quickly growing organization is someone who displays hard work and competence — and the ability to lead. . The ability to spot a leader before they have ever been placed in a leadership role is so crucial for anyone driving an organization to success.

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